This video examines whether modern physics has revived the 19th-century idea of the “aether” — the invisible medium once thought to carry light — and explains how contemporary theories changed our ...

Time and Space Begin to Break DownIn 1905, a 26-year-old unknown technician working at the Swiss Patent Office sent a series of revolutionary papers to a German academic journal.This was Albert ...

Last time, we learned that rather than the physical constants themselves changing, the appearance of physics as it manifests ...

One of the goals of modern physics is to determine the underlying rules that govern our reality. Indeed, one of the wonders of the universe is that just a few rules seem to describe many aspects of ...

Rogue black holes kicked from their galactic lairs are among the surprising predictions made by physicists using powerful computers to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity. David Appell ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

Starting with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on October 5, the Physics and Chemistry prizes will be announced on ...

Einstein showed that time and space are not fixed entities, as they seem to us, but are actually changeable. As Brian Greene explains, it's all based on an observer's state of motion compared to that ...

Gravity ties our bodies to planet Earth but it does not define the limits of the soaring human mind. In November 1915 – exactly one century ago – this was proven to be true when Albert Einstein, in a ...

There is a parlor game physics students play: Who was the greater genius? Galileo or Kepler? (Galileo.) Maxwell or Bohr?

What is the most difficult concept to grasp in physics? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by ...