A combination of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum physics may help explain the expansion of the universe from a singular entity, P. Ajith, astrophysicist with the International ...

Scientists come up with theories to explain known phenomena of nature and predict future outcomes. A significant aspect of study of natural phenomena is the idea of force. Scientists study reaction of ...

Today marks the centenary of an experiment which proved Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity - but what exactly is that theory? Dr Matthew Bothwell, an astronomer at the University of ...

In our minds, the image of a ‘new scientific theory’ typically comes in two forms. The first is when a new theory brilliantly solves a well-known, unresolved problem that the existing scientific ...

In this video, we explore Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, focusing on his insights into gravity and acceleration. Initially ridiculed, Einstein developed key concepts after observing a ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity has passed its toughest test with flying colors, a new study reports. General relativity, which Einstein proposed in 1916, holds that gravity is a consequence ...

IN MARCH, a team of physicists announced that they had detected ripples in space-time produced at the universe’s birth. Their claims took the world by storm. One of my colleagues declared it the most ...

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...

There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word “No”. However, Lorentz invariance – the theory that the same rules of physics apply ...