These geniuses have not only excelled within their areas of expertise but also profoundly impacted human knowledge and ...

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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.’ ...

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. His parents, Hermann and Paulina, were secular Jews and moved ...

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Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

Out of Nowhere. The Emergence of Spacetime in Theories of Quantum Gravity. Christian Wüthrich et Nick Huggett. The two fundamental pillars of physics for over 100 years have been ...

In USA, Infeld recalled, “I arrived at Princeton in September 1936. Five months later our collaboration with Einstein began ...

Others explore dark energy as something more dynamic. Still, others question whether Einstein’s theory of general relativity needs a rewrite. Testing these ideas requires vast sky surveys that ...

Buried in Albert Einstein’s mail one spring day in 1953 lay a letter from an ordinary mortal, a 20-year-old high school dropout named John Moffat. Two more disparate correspondents would be hard to ...