Faster-than-light particles have spent decades in physics as both temptation and warning. They offered a way to test the ...

Assistant Professor Haocun Yu is something of a scientific diplomat. In a recent Physical Review Letters publication, she and ...

Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework for ...

The speed of light remains one of physics’ firmest assumptions, but scientists still test whether it ever shifts under ...

Long and winding road: The Juice space probe taking the long way to Jupiter and its moons - Copyright NASA/AFP/File NASA Long and winding road: The Juice space probe ...

What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time ...

First of all, the prevailing quantum theory, quantum field theory, is fully relativistic from the onset. Relativity is “built into” the theory, so to speak. And it’s the only quantum theory that is ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved by Marcia Bartusiak (CC BY-SA Alain r) While there have been ...