In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated.

The ACES clocks — PHARAO and SHM — will be used to test fundamental physics from orbit, including Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and the search for dark matter, said ESA.

Over four months, March through June 1905, Albert ... Einstein experienced what he would later call “the most fortunate thought of my life.” He knew that his 1905 special relativity theory ...

Every year, April 18 marks the death anniversary of Albert Einstein, the iconic physicist ... The Special Theory of Relativity (1905) introduced the world to E=mc², establishing the relationship ...

Albert Einstein is arguably the most influential scientist of the 20th century. His general theory of relativity changed our understanding of space and time, becoming one of the two pillars of ...

In the quest toward finding the correct theory of quantum gravity, physicists have been testing the holographic principle which, they say, is a key property of any valid theory of quantum gravity.

On his first and only visit to Japan, in the late fall of 1922, Albert ... the time Einstein was arriving in Japan to plaudits, the Soviet Union decided that his theory of relativity was, as ...

Noether’s eponymous theorem was inspired by Albert Einstein’s work on relativity in the early years of the 20th century, culminating in his general theory of relativity in 1915. It formalised ...