Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein's theory of relativity shows they are interlinked in a ...
Time dilation, a captivating concept embedded in Einstein’s theory of relativity, has been experimentally validated on Earth. With the use of ultra-precise clocks, scientists have been able to ...
Amid high expectations for quantum technology, a new paper in Science reports a proven quantum advantage. In an experiment, ...
Even more perplexing is the question: if the universe originated from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, did time exist ...
Researchers David Messerschmitt, Ian Morrison, Thomas Mozdzen, and Philip Lubin imagined two scenarios for spacecraft traveling close to light speed. While such spacecraft do not yet exist, physics ...
Physicists from Osaka Metropolitan University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology were able to observe ...
A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future ...
Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...
The chain-reaction revolution in high school physics set off by M.I.T.’s Physical Science Study Committee (TIME, July 29, 1957, et seq.) will touch 12,000 students this fall. Latest link in the ...
Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...