In a dual set of papers published in Science last week, an international group of researchers presented an experiment which used relativistic time dilation to measure the curvature of spacetime. The ...

Disclaimer: I am very much a physics noob. This might be a nonsensical question. That spacetime can be curved or warped is something I can grasp, but I keep getting stuck on one specific aspect of how ...

A paper appeared in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Co-author, Associate Professor of the Department of Relativity Theory and Gravity of KFU Alexei Zayats explains, "Light is distributed linearly in ...

When you travel through the Universe, it isn't just a free ride through empty space. Although you might not think about it very often, there are forces arising from the presence of everything else, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Universe, as we know it, has a fundamental flaw staring us right in ...

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