A renewed suggestion that dark energy may not be real—dispensing with 70% of the stuff in the universe—has reignited a longstanding debate. Dark energy and dark matter are theoretical inventions that ...

A straightforward math tweak could bring tachyon fields into line with the rest of physics. Tachyons are faster-than-light particles, and tachyon fields are special cases of quantum field. The math ...

For decades, one of the biggest questions in cosmology has remained frustratingly out of reach: what, if anything, existed ...

“The one sentence statement of general relativity is that ‘gravity is the curvature of spacetime,’” explains Dr. Sean Carroll, assistant professor of physics at the University of Chicago. “Really, the ...

It was the discovery that changed the universe - or rather our understanding of the universe. One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity. So for the next ...

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THE Gibson foundation lecture, delivered at the University of Glasgow by Prof. A. Einstein on June 20, consisted of a first-hand account of the mental struggles that precede the establishment of new ...

An artist's visualization of the star S0-2 as it passes by the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. As the star gets closer to the supermassive black hole, it experiences a gravitational ...

And why not? Cheered on, to his disgust, by most of his Berlin colleagues, Germany had started a ruinous world war. He had split up with his wife, and she had decamped to Switzerland with his sons. He ...

Breakthroughs in science often begin with a simple question and years of tireless exploration. From the way tiny molecules slip through microscopic pores to the staggering behavior of matter near ...

Simulated universe: EAGLE collaboration, J Schaye et al 2015. MNRAS, CC BY-SA A renewed suggestion that dark energy may not be real — dispensing with 70% of the stuff in the universe — has reignited a ...