Einstein's Big Idea homepage One of Albert Einstein's greatest insights was realizing that time is relative. It speeds up or slows down depending on how fast one thing is moving relative to ...

A secretary from the principal's office burst into the classroom, disrupting our math lesson to turn on the TV.

But beyond the theoretical and practical applications of Einstein‘s theories of relativity, almost every human knows intuitively that time is relative—because it seems to pass much faster the ...

Confirming that Einstein was right about time dilation and that quasars play by the basic mathematical rules of the cosmos, provides a firm foundation for scientists to explore other cosmic ...

It's All RelativeThis year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death. Both events are being commemorated by a bid to ...

Time is Not an Object Like the Shells You Collect Along the Beach In his papers on relativity, Einstein showed that time is relative to the observer.

In Einstein's words: "It was formerly believed that if all material things disappeared out of the universe, time and space would be left.

Time, Einstein taught us, is relative. It passes slowly, or it flies. All performing arts exist in time. They stretch or compress it. Chopin wrote a “Minute Waltz”; an ongoing performance of ...

This Valentine’s Day, commemorate something that will last forever: Einstein’s physics. One hundred years ago, he published three papers that changed the world as we knew it.