Nautilus

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It was one of the great missed connections of physics. In 1965 a particle theorist derived a formula for the collision of elementary particles. Twenty years later two gravitation theorists, using completely different techniques, derived a formula for

Quanta

3 min. di lettura

By 1913, Albert Einstein had nearly completed general relativity. But a simple mistake set him on a tortured, two-year reconsideration of his theory. Today, mathematicians still grapple with the issues he confronted.

Nautilus

21 min. di lettura

Inside the South London offices of Doppel, a wearable technology start-up, sandwiched into a single room on a floor between a Swedish coffee shop and a wig-making studio, CEO and quantum physicist Fotini Markopoulou is debating the best way to descri

Nautilus

14 min. di lettura

When they met, Einstein wasn’t Einstein yet. He was just Albert Einstein, a kid, about 17, with a dark cloud of teenage angst and a violin. Michele Besso was older, 23, but a kindred spirit. Growing up in Trieste, Italy he had shown an impressive kna

All About Space

2 min. di lettura

A new test of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has proved the iconic physicist right again-this time by reanalysing the famous first-ever picture of a black hole, which was released in April 2019. That image of the supermassive black ho

Nautilus

14 min. di lettura

When they met, Einstein wasn’t Einstein yet. He was just Albert Einstein, a kid, about 17, with a dark cloud of teenage angst and a violin. Michele Besso was older, 23, but a kindred spirit. Growing up in Trieste, Italy he had shown an impressive kna

All About Space

8 min. di lettura

Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist born in Verona, Italy, currently working at the Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy (Center of Theoretical Physics of Luminy) at Aix-Marseille University, France. Carlo’s last book, Seven Brief Lessons o

All About Space

2 min. di lettura

According to general relativity, space-time began in a singularity 13.8 billion years ago. It has been expanding ever since. 380,000 years after the Big Bang, space-time had cooled enough for atoms to form, and light that had previously been trapped

Nautilus

7 min. di lettura

Time travel has been a beloved science-fiction idea at least since H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895. The concept continues to fascinate and fictional approaches keep coming, prodding us to wonder whether time travel is physically possible an

The Christian Science Monitor

4 min. di lettura

The first ever image of a black hole marks a milestone not just in black hole astronomy, but for the study of gravity itself.

Nautilus

6 min. di lettura

This essay is one of the five winners in the 2019 writing competition held by the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University. “The Black Hole Initiative offers a unique environment for thinking about the topic of black holes more creatively and comp

The American Scholar

19 min. di lettura

THE THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY burst into public awareness when observations made off the west coast of Africa during a 1919 solar eclipse confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s most astonishing assertions: that large masses, like the sun, warp space a

BBC Sky at Night

4 min. di lettura

Samantha Cristoforetti Allen Lane £25 • HB At the sight of the International Space Station (ISS) passing over us, you may wonder what it’s like to be up there, orbiting Earth every 93 minutes. You may even wave at the astronauts on board. After nearl

All About Space

1 min. di lettura

Fundamental particles such as electrons are made of tiny strings that vibrate across ten spatial dimensions, plus one time dimension. This picture manages to avoid infinities when combining quantum theory and general relativity, but it cannot current

The Atlantic

4 min. di lettura

Black holes are somehow able to grow constantly without changing their size. Physics might finally be able to explain why.

Literary Hub

9 min. di lettura

Soon after the Great Earthquake struck San Francisco on the morning of April  18, 1906, with fierce fires active or imminent across the city, Eric Temple Bell, then 23, sought to protect his treasured copy of Théorie des Nombres by Édouard Lucas by b

Nautilus

6 min. di lettura

What is orbital rotation? The basic picture is clear enough: One body is at rest, while the other follows some circular or elliptical path around it. The trouble is just to figure out which body is which. If you’re standing on the surface of the eart

Science Illustrated

1 min. di lettura

COSMOLOGY Einstein’s relativity theory from 1915 forms the basis of our understanding of gravity, and its predictions have been confirmed many times in recent decades by astronomers’ observations of black holes and gravitational waves. Now a third pr

All About Space

10 min. di lettura

The great Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo inherited his interest in science from his musical father. Vincenzo Galilei specialised in the lute, a distant relative of modern guitars, and was also a musical theorist who used experimentation and

Futurity

3 min. di lettura

Einstein’s general theory of relativity—the idea that gravity is matter warping spacetime—has withstood over 100 years of scrutiny and testing, including the newest test involving supermassive black holes, researchers report. According to their findi

All About Space

1 min. di lettura

A group of scientists has created a computer simulation of the universe in order to test out an alternative theory to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Their study found that galaxies similar to our own Milky Way could still form in the

BBC Sky at Night

2 min. di lettura

In light of the COVID-19 lockdown we look back and see that many scientific advances have occurred during periods of hardship, at times of war or plague The science of the stars is one of the great survivors in the COVID-19 emergency. People are faci

Quanta

4 min. di lettura

The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume of black holes.

New Philosopher

4 min. di lettura

Physicists are not sure what time is or how it works. The dominant position is the one articulated recently by Carlo Rovelli, who reminds us that the equations of general relativity – one of the best-tested scientific theories of all time – are time-

The Christian Science Monitor

2 min. di lettura

Once considered an improbable artifact of Einstein’s equations for general relativity, black holes are very real manifestations of how extremely massive objects can capture light itself.

Nautilus

4 min. di lettura

We don’t believe in time travel, and we’re not into mysticism. But what if we could write a letter to Albert Einstein to tell him about gravity and black holes in a few paragraphs? We’d write something like this letter. Steven Gubser and Frans Pretor

Futurity

1 min. di lettura

A new book tells the stories of astronomers who worked for a decade to get images of a solar eclipse. The work ultimately showed Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was correct. Einstein’s theory of general relativity is a cornerstone of modern ph

Futurity

4 min. di lettura

Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity hold up in the crucible of the monstrous black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, according to new research. For now, that is. The researchers followed a star orbiting so close to the black hole that

Nautilus

13 min. di lettura

What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin? In one view, nothing much would change—the discoveries they made and theories they devised would have materialized anyway sooner or later. That’s the odd thing abo

NPR

2 min. di lettura

The prize goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. Ghez says she hopes it will inspire young people, and particularly women, to pursue careers in science.