A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path. Special relativity links…
Physicists propose that our universe may contain three dimensions of time
Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework…
A Physical Warp Drive Was Supposed to Be Impossible. Then These Scientists Found a Loophole.
In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a…
A Physicist Was Testing a Vacuum—and Stumbled Upon the First Viable Blueprint for a Warp Drive
For decades, the idea of the warp drive—an incredibly cool, incredibly hypothetical cheat code for crossing impossible distances…
Scientists Observe Mysterious Light Wave Vortices Moving Faster Than Light
Dark spots within lightwaves may appear to break the speed of light, according to new research from Technion-Israel…
Darkness can move faster than light without breaking relativity
A dark point inside a wave of light sounds like a contradiction. It is also something researchers say…