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    Sep 05, 2019 4 minutes

    Because of the time its light takes to reach us, we see the Sun as it was eight minutes in the past

    Einstein disliked the term ‘relativity’ – he originally wanted to call it ‘invariance theory’

    The electrons in old-style TV tubes were so fast-moving that relativity had to be taken into account

    The physics of traversable wormholes was originally worked out for Carl Sagan’s sci-fi novel, Contact

    A PARTY TIME TRAVELLERS

    Physicist Stephen Hawking was sceptical about the feasibility of time travel into the past. This wasn’t because he’d disproved it, but he was bothered by the logical paradoxes it created. In his ‘chronology protection conjecture’, he surmised that physicists would eventually discover a flaw in the theory of closed timelike curves that made them impossible.

    In 2009 he came

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