Einstein received the Nobel Prize for one of the other ideas, but the special theory of relativity has since become the most well-known, perhaps of his career or even the entire field of physics!

Albert Einstein had described the special theory of relativity in 1905. The result of Einstein's thinking about light, this theory introduced brand-new ideas to science. It opened up an entire ...

Einstein’s special relativity, which he formulated in his “miracle year” of 1905, was a theory that revolutionised ... unaffected for example by the Earth’s rotation.

For example, a person standing on a train ... Einstein knew that his theory of special relativity was partial. It couldn’t be applied to accelerating (or non-inertial) objects or gravity.

It is an extension of Einstein’s special theory of relativity – but such a massive ... the very earliest instants of the big bang, for example, when the universe was very small and gravity ...

Often he used real-world examples that helped non-scientists ... "One sees in this paradox the germ of the special relativity theory is already contained," Einstein wrote in his "Autobiographical ...

Physicists have taken a bold step beyond Einstein's special theory of relativity, proposing an expansion of special relativity that includes observers moving faster than light. This fresh perspective ...

Excerpt from the back cover: This book will serve readers as a modern mathematical introduction to the general theory of relativity. Throughout the book, examples, worked out problems, and exercises ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched one of its most precise science experiments to date — the Atomic Clock Ensemble ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...