The term “ether” is unique in the history of physics not only because of the so many different meanings in which it has been used but also because it is the only term that has been eliminated and ...

Two satellites constructed and launched by the European Space Agency will spend the next year testing Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which was proposed in a paper the famed German ...

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Physics is crowded with evocative phrases, but these alone cannot show the whole picture. “What is it that human beings ultimately depend upon? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language.

1. Who invented relativity? Bzzzt — wrong. Galileo hit on the idea in 1639, when he showed that a falling object behaves the same way on a moving ship as it does in a motionless building. 2. And ...

THIS is one of the most fascinating science books I have ever read. It tells the story of the 2500-year quest to gain an understanding of the slippery concept of motion. Beginning with the Greek ...

Having failed to achieve their intended orbit following a launch in August 2014, a pair of ESA Galileo satellites are being re-tasked to test Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. More precisely, ...