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The hypothetical faster-than-light particle known as the tachyon may marry with the special theory of relativity, according to a team of physicists, making its existence more plausible. Tachyons are a ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

The answer comes from a counterintuitive result of special relativity, a field of physics which is notoriously difficult to ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

When an object moves extremely fast – close to the speed of light – certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer apply. This is the central consequence of Albert Einstein's special ...

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For the first time, physicists have demonstrated a phenomenon known as the Terrell-Penrose effect, which causes an object moving close to the speed of light to warp before our eyes. The new findings, ...

On this day in 1905 Albert Einstein published his paper introducing special relativity in a German physics journal. Entitled “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” the paper introduced key ideas ...