Netflix has released a new docudrama titled Einstein and the Bomb, that narrates the story of the German-born theoretical physicist’s life and career. Interestingly, this project used archival footage ...
A famous aphorism by Albert Einstein is carved in stone, in the original German, over the mantelpiece of one of the common rooms at Princeton. When I was a graduate student I would sometimes take ...
We often marvel at the genius of Albert Einstein, a physicist who revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Yet, even this formidable mind was perplexed by a grand scientific problem, one that ...
Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 (coincidentally, 3/14 is also known as pi day because it’s the three digits of pi: 3.14). Known as the father of modern physics, he published some of the most ...
An article by José María Martín Olalla, from the University of Seville, published in the scientific journal 'The European Physical Journal Plus' refutes the postulates of the German physicist of ...
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 ...
The research that leads to a Nobel Prize in physics can sometimes be a little obscure. In 1990, for example, three scientists got the nod “for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic ...
The faster you move, the stranger time becomes. By imagining how light travels to two people moving at different speeds, Einstein showed that time isn’t absolute. His thought experiment revealed that ...