When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The theories of relativity by Albert Einstein revolutionized how the world thinks about space, ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity, published in 1916, built upon his earlier work, including special relativity and the mass-energy equivalence, both published in his "Annus Mirabilis" in 1905.

When the theory of relativity appeared in the early 1900s, it upended centuries of science and gave physicists a new understanding of space and time. Isaac Newton saw space and time as fixed, but in ...

Frame of reference: the GINGERino prototype at LNGS. (Courtesy: GINGER Collaboration) Physicists have started work on a new experiment that aims to measure a very subtle prediction of Einstein’s ...