1 day ago By Ben Platts-Mills, In a special illustrated feature, Ben Platts-Mills explains why Albert Einstein and other eminent physicists refused to believe black holes could be real. Were they too strange and sublime to imagine? All stars must eventually … Read more
Albert Einstein in Caputh, Germany, in 1929.Credit: Ullsten Bild via Getty Beyond his towering contribution to physics, Albert Einstein was an avid commentator on education, marriage, money, the nature of genius, music-making, politics and more. His insights were legion, as … Read more
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22 February 2022 University lecturer and Nikhef researcher Jessica Steinlechner of Maastricht University is awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council for her research on advanced mirrors for gravitational wave detectors…. Read more
In 1905, physicists understood something of the laws governing two types of forces: those of electricity and magnetism and of gravity. We’ve seen that the laws of electricity and magnetism, encoded in Maxwell’s equations, forced a rethinking of the most … Read more
The theory of general relativity passes a range of precise tests set by pair of extreme stars An international team of researchers from ten countries led by Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, … Read more
Back Share on: d 11/25/2021 12:34 Einstein Foundation to present the inaugural €500,000 Award for Promoting Quality in Research The Einstein Foundation Berlin is honoring the American physicist Paul Ginsparg and the Center for Open Science with the inaugural Einstein … Read more
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below.][embedded content]Quantum mechanics is weird – I am sure you’ve read that somewhere. And why is it weird? Oh, it’s because it’s got that “spooky action at a distance”, doesn’t it? Einstein … Read more