Einstein’s famous tenet of special relativity — that time slows down on a moving clock — has been verified 10 times more precisely than ever before. The result comes from physicists in Germany and ...

Physicists are quietly advancing a radical idea: time might not be a single, thin line but a full three‑dimensional landscape ...

OUR most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein’s theory of relativity: the idea that time isn’t absolute. Any violation of this principle could point us to a long-sought theory that ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Strangely, although we feel as if we sweep through time on the knife-edge between the fixed past and the open future, that edge—the present—appears nowhere in the existing laws of physics. In Albert ...

Denizens of Elizabethan England dismissed a short-lived sensation as a “nine days’ wonder.” Andy Warhol spoke of fame lasting mere 15 minutes. These days, a reality-TV star would be lucky to light up ...

Is it time to begin to review Einstein’s relativity theory? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer ...

Time travel has shifted from pure fantasy to a serious, if highly constrained, topic in modern physics. The equations that describe gravity, quantum fields and the structure of spacetime now allow ...

Even if it turns out that time loops never take shape, studying them provides key insights into the deepest rules of reality.