When it comes to space travel, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is a major inconvenience. With the laws of physics (currently) prohibiting faster-than-light ... became the focus of "Star ...

Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

That's about 186,282 miles per second — a universal constant known in equations as "c," or light speed. According to physicist Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, on which much of ...

When physicists announced last week that they had detected subatomic particles, called neutrinos, that appeared to be traveling faster than the speed of light, it seemed to be an exception to a ...

Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The hypothetical faster-than-light particle known as the tachyon may marry with the special theory of relativity, according to a team of physicists, making its existence ...

IN the course of time every scientific book is overtaken by one of two fates; it lapses into oblivion or it is canonised as a classic. In the latter case there is always a temptation to extend its ...