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General Relativity – still ahead of its time
Over the past century, Einstein's predictions have been verified – except one. Only gravitational waves remain. By Dan Falk.
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The messy reality of science revealed by the long hunt for a missing planet
The Hunt for Vulcan review: A predicted planet eluded discovery until Einstein killed it. By Xaq Rzetelny.
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Einstein’s Unfinished Dream: Marrying Relativity to the Quantum World
On the centennial of the theory of general relativity, senior Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln reflects on Einstein's quest to understand the quantum world.
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History: Einstein was no lone genius
Lesser-known and junior colleagues helped the great physicist to piece together his general theory of relativity, explain Michel Janssen and Jürgen Renn.
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The most beautiful theory
A century ago Albert Einstein changed the way humans saw the universe. His work is still offering new insights today
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What Is Spacetime, Really?
A hundred years ago today Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity—a brilliant, elegant theory that has survived a century, and provides the only successful way we have of describing spacetime. There are plenty of theoretical indications, though, that General Relativity isn’t the end of the story of spacetime... By Stephen Wolfram.
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Gravitational Waves Discovered? A Physics Rumor Sends Shockwaves Across Twitter
The team behind the experiment have yet to comment on the rumors. By Charles Poladian.
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A Radical Reinterpretation of Einstein’s Theory
A cadre of physicists working on the theory of shape dynamics could change our understanding of reality. By Dan Falk.
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It’s about time: how sci-fi has described Einstein’s universe
A century after the publication of the general theory of relativity, sci-fi is still grappling with its implications, and still trying to explain it to the rest of us. By Damien Walter.
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The Death of General Relativity Lurks in a Black Hole’s Shadow
Scientists are compiling a picture of the shadow of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and it could reveal general relatively breaking down. By Lizzie Wade.
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Hold Up, Did We Just Crack Time Travel?
Astrophysicists famously proved Einstein’s theory on the existence of gravitational waves last week. Here’s the less covered part of it all: It might, down the line, bring us closer to moving through time. By Michael Howard.
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The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves
A relatively unknown experiment is already drawing conclusions from the sound of silence. By Sarah Scoles.
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Tangled Up in Spacetime
Hundreds of researchers in a collaborative project called “It from Qubit” say space and time may spring up from the quantum entanglement of tiny bits of information. By Clara Moskowitz.
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What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones
Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring? By Natalie Wolchover.
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Remarkable New Theory Says There’s No Gravity, No Dark Matter, and Einstein Was Wrong
A theoretical physicist proposes a new way to think about gravity and dark matter. By Paul Ratner,
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How an Award-Winning Economist’s Weird Discovery May Challenge General Relativity
In 2004, The Economist reported on a study by Chris Duif with the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, who was convinced after further research of his own that the phenomenon known as the Allais effect is not only real, but that it could still qualify as being unexplained… By Micah Hanks.
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When Einstein Tilted at Windmills
The young physicist’s quest to prove the theories of Ernst Mach. By Amanda Gefter.
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Why must time be a dimension?
Sure, we move through it just like space, but it was the aftermath of Einstein that led to us truly understanding it. By Ethan Siegel.
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LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General Relativity Breakdown
Gravitational wave data show tentative signs of firewalls or other exotic physics By Zeeya Merali.
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Physicists Theorize Wormhole Travel Is Possible
In a paper published in a physics journal, Dr. Diego Rubiera-Garcia and his team posited that a spacecraft could survive wormhole travel. By MJ Banias.
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