How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
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It was a hundred years ago this November, and Albert Einstein was enjoying a rare moment of contentment. Days earlier, on November 25, 1915, he had taken to the stage at the Prussian Academy of ...
Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...
The constancy of the speed of light is a pillar of modern physics, but questions persist about its absolute universality.
A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to reveal the presence of dark matter and help determine its properties. The key is ...
Extreme events like GW231123 stretch general relativity to its breaking point. "The tremendous curvature of space and time probes general relativity deep in its most extreme strong field regime, ...