BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...
In 1905, a 26-year-old patent clerk named Albert Einstein looked at the universe and discovered that time was not what we thought it was. It was not linear. For centuries, everyone assumed the same ...
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 ...
1915 and the theory of General Relativity: In 1911, Einstein starting talking about the idea that space is curved. In 1915 Albert Einstein put fourth a theory that mass, or a large object, like the ...
Before Einstein, physics looked almost finished. The universe seemed to behave like an excellent Swiss railway timetable. Matter moved. Forces acted. Time ticked away in the background like a reliable ...