Foreword / Diana Kormos Buchwald -- Preface -- Part I. Preliminaries. Introduction -- Einstein's first trip to America -- Structure and contents of The meaning of relativity -- Part II. The emerging ...

The known universe—or at least our understanding of it—is governed by two overarching theories. The first, courtesy of Albert Einstein, is the theory of general relativity, which accurately describes ...

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss.—David Giger bounded up 26 steel steps and emerged onto a rocket engine test platform. Off to his left, an unbroken stand of stately pine trees spread out over the ...

One hundred years ago in November 1915, Albert Einstein presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences his new theory of general relativity. It is fair to say the theory turned out to be a great ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

The charm of a manuscript -- Einstein's intellectual odyssey to general relativity -- The annotated manuscript -- Bibliographical notes to the annotation pages -- Postscript: the drama continues -- A ...

Albert Einstein's famous relativity quote, "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it failed to provide ...