Einstein once described his friend Michele Besso as “the best sounding board in Europe” for scientific ideas. They attended university together in Zurich; later they were colleagues at the patent ...

The block universe theory says that time may not actually be passing at all while you read this and that the past, present, and future are all intertwined and exist at the same time, and some ...

As time goes on and things in life appear to get progressively weirder, the theory that we’re all living in a simulation seems more and more realistic. Now, another TikTok video is taking it a little ...

Why did Albert Einstein reject the existence of time? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Paul ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has driven a hundred-year debate between philosophy and science. In Einstein’s ...

Explore the elementary particles that make up our universe. The Standard Model is a kind of periodic table of the elements for particle physics. But instead of listing the chemical elements, it lists ...

The ancient Greeks conceived of five building blocks of matter – from bottom to top: earth, water, air, fire, and aether. Aether was the matter that filled the heavens and explained the rotation of ...