[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uu7jA8EHi_0] Understanding relativity is hard but playing games is easy. What’s a physicist to do ...

Albert Einstein is unquestionably one of the greatest scientists to ever live. He’s responsible for likely the most well-known equation of all time, and decades after his death, his work is still a ...

Einstein’s theories of relativity propose that forward time travel is theoretically feasible by nearing light speeds, but backward time travel presents more challenges. Theoretical models like ...

David Wiltshire receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand. Alan Coley receives funding from NSERC, Canada. A renewed suggestion that dark energy may not be real — dispensing with 70% of ...

THE author has an idea: 16 to 18-year-olds should be taught special relativity at school. Most students learn it only if they take physics at university: the theory is considered too ...

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity completely overturned our understanding of the nature of gravity, space and time.

The theory of relativity describes two connected scientific theories developed by the physicist Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. Collectively, relativity is the idea the ...