When an object moves extremely fast—close to the speed of light—certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer ...

When an object moves extremely fast – close to the speed of light – certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer apply. This is the ...

Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of ...

It is an extension of Einstein’s special theory of relativity – but such a massive one that it took him 10 years, from 1905 to 1915, to get from one to the other. Special relativity tells us ...

Ten years before general relativity, Einstein came up with special relativity, which explained the relationship between space and time – and how they are related to each other. 'Special' means ...