Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...
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We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...
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Independent researcher and CEO of IDrive Inc., Raghu Kulkarni, has unveiled a groundbreaking framework for understanding the universe: the Selection-Stitch Model (SSM). The model suggests that ...
Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...
Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...
For more than a century, physics has treated space and time as the smooth stage on which the universe unfolds, a flexible fabric that bends but never breaks. A new wave of theories is now challenging ...
China has quietly solved a problem that only becomes obvious once you try to live and work off-world: clocks on the moon do ...