The Week That Was: 2020-01-11 (January 11, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” – Albert Einstein Number of the...
Large collisions in space, like those between black holes or neutron stars, create ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. The phenomenon was first predicted by Albert Einstein.
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory...
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Einstein's equations have held up remarkably well for over a century. But they leave tantalizing gaps in our knowledge.
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Scientists are going to great lengths to try to make gravity fail, so as to link Einstein's theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics.
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Spending time reflecting and thinking has helped me balance priorities, solve problems, and generate new ideas.
Shouts & Murmurs by Hart Pomerantz: When Einstein got remarried, to his cousin Elsa, in 1919, he discovered the true meaning of relativity.
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The image provides tangible evidence of an object whose existence was predicted by solving theoretical equations formulated by Albert Einstein half a century ago. Aside from that, what can be cooler than an image of something that is essentially...
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The Mensa test gives an indication of general cognitive abilities and has an average score of 100. However, it does not serve as a substitute for a professional intelligence test.
Entanglement, once called "spooky action at a distance" by Einstein, is the phenomenon in which the quantum states of separated particles cannot be described independently. This puzzling phenomenon is widely exploited in the quantum physicist's...
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"Everything is determined by forces over which we have no control... Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper," Albert Einstein wrote.
Everyday Einstein interviews exoplanetary scientist Moiya McTier to learn about the process and why we can trust scientific papers
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Ultraluminous x-ray sources (ULX) were first observed in 1980 by the Einstein Observatory and according to scientific surveys there is one ULX per galaxy, however, most galaxies do not have ULXs. Scientists still have not established the basic...
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Bose-Einstein condensates are macroscopic quantum phases of matter which appear only under very particular conditions. Learning more about these phases of matter could help researchers develop a better understanding of fundamental quantum behaviors...
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You can find numerous physics courses currently available online for free.Courses are taught by instructors with amazing credits like Nobel Prizes and field-defining work.Topics range from introductory to Einstein's theory of relativity, particle...
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Poet W. H. Auden greets the New Year; Einstein helps us throw out old ideas
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Probability theory can be considered not only as a mathematical theory but also as a physical theory, more fundamental than quantum mechanics or general relativity.
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The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, and a massive body can therefore act like a lens (a "gravitational lens") to distort the image of an object seen behind it. Scientists first confirmed Einstein's prediction quantitatively...
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Although the existence of gravitational waves was predicted long ago in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, the phenomenon was first physically detected in 2015 by twin observatories in the US and Italy.
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University of Queensland More accurate clocks and sensors may result from a recently proposed experiment, linking an Einstein-devised paradox to quantum mechanics. University of Queensland physicist Dr Magdalena Zych said the international...
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If Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity holds true, then a black hole, born from the cosmically quaking collisions of two massive black holes, should itself "ring" in the aftermath, producing gravitational waves much like a struck bell...
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