Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Yesterday I tackled a vexing problem: Is general relativity really that hard to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bob Somerby is reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein, which he calls ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. The question of gravity is, of course, a tricky one for Earth-bound ...

THE Gibson foundation lecture, delivered at the University of Glasgow by Prof. A. Einstein on June 20, consisted of a first-hand account of the mental struggles that precede the establishment of new ...

Researchers have successfully simulated how a ring-shaped black hole could cause general relativity to break down: assuming the universe contains at least five dimensions, that is. Researchers have ...