Around nineteen-hundred, all of physics, and particularly Einstein, was in trouble: they couldn't figure out how anything could move… Now before you complain that I'm exaggerating,...
What do we really mean by "near" and "far"? In a way, distance is just a measure of how hard it is to get between two points. The harder to get from here to there,...
In mid 1905, Albert Einstein derived what is now the most famous equation in the world: E equals M C squared. But he didn't just write this down out of the blue – it followed directly from...
Dear citizens of the universe, You probably know that light can reach two hundred ninety nine thousand, seven hundred ninety two measly kilometers in a second, but did you also know that physics can...
E=mc^2 may be the most famous equation in the world… but what you might not know is that it isn't the whole story. It just describes objects that have mass and that aren't moving. The...
Say, do you like mystery stories? Well we have one for you.. The concept: relativity. That strange fantastic relationship between time, distance, and mass. Before we're finished, I think...
You may have heard that Einstein's theory of special relativity imposes a cosmic speed limit: nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Well, that's wrong. All that Einstein...