Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite philosophy known as the "mediocrity principle," which, in essence, suggests that there's really nothing special about Earth, the sun or the Milky Way ...

Albert Einstein, one of the most celebrated modern scientists, proposed the revolutionary theory of special relativity more than a century ago. This theory forms the basis of most of what we ...

This chapter commemorates 2005 as the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's (1879 1955) miraculous year, and the 50th anniversary of his death in April 18, 1955. In 1905 he published the paper ...

Matthew Mewes is in the Department of Physics, College of Science and Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA. The IceCube Collaboration instead ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When it comes to a science like physics, theoretical expectations must ...

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is actually two separate theories: his special theory of relativity, postulated in the 1905 paper, The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and his theory of general ...

The hypothetical faster-than-light particle known as the tachyon may marry with the special theory of relativity, according to a team of physicists, making its existence more plausible. Tachyons are a ...

Even if you are told in a university physics class that "relativity has nothing to do with daily life," in reality, ...

It’s Monday morning and you’re headed to grab an espresso from a corner cafe. Upon entering, you run into the dreaded “cash only” sign. “No problem,” you think, wandering to the nearest ATM. You ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you were a physicist in the early 20th century, there would have ...

‘I love the idea that this basic principle that Einstein told us about a long time ago is something you can see,’ CU Boulder astrophysicist says Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite ...