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Relativity

How Time-Travel Stories Borrow from Einstein

Arts, Culture & Media

A novelist dreamt about time travel years before Einstein’s eureka moment. 

How to Catch a Spacetime Wave

Arts, Culture & Media

It’s All Relativity

Arts, Culture & Media

Black hole paradox remains unexplained

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UC Berkeley Astrophysicist on Black Hole Discovery

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Swiss scientists challenge Einstein’s Law of Relativity

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David Kaiser, physics and history of science professor at MIT, and Brian Greene, professor of physics at Columbia University explain what, if anything, these findings mean.

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