Light can travel for billions of years yet experience no time
A photon emitted from a star a billion light-years away arrives at a telescope having experienced no time…
Distance in space is an illusion
Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact.…
Einstein vs Bohr: Why Einstein’s “God Does Not Play Dice” Quote Still Shapes Modern Physics: Quote of the day by Einstein: “God does not play dice with the universe.” Why Einstein wrote to Bohr, “Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence” — opposites who respected each other
Quote of the Day by Einstein: The Einstein-Bohr debate was fundamentally about the nature of reality at the…
Wilczek’s Multiverse | Revisiting the peaks of Nobel laureate Chen-ning Yang’s remarkable career
In the latest instalment of his exclusive series for the South China Morning Post, American theoretical physicist and…
Black holes are twisting the universe: New discovery shows Einstein was right |
Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy…
Could time travel actually be possible? One researcher thinks so
One Vanderbilt University researcher thinks time travel might not just be for the movies. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons). Time…
Astronomers discover spacetime drag around a supermassive black hole — as predicted by Einstein
A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds…
How did Chen-ning Yang miss out on a second Nobel Prize in physics?
Since the Nobel Prize began recognising exceptional achievements in science, literature and peace in 1901, only five scientists…
Two new black hole collisions confirm Einstein’s theory with record precision
For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal…
6 Times Einstein Missed the Mark, but Still Changed Physics
Albert Einstein is undeniably one of the greatest names in physics. But Einstein, for all his contributions to…