'No understanding of or interest in modern physics': Einstein (pictured) was criticised by Oppenheimer - Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Viewers of Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-hoovering ...
A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...
Quote of the day: Though widely celebrated for reshaping modern physics, Einstein’s impact reached well beyond laboratories ...
Albert Einstein was well known for his thought experiments involving complex scientific ideas. Often he used real-world examples that helped non-scientists grasp his theories of relativity. He started ...
The faster you move, the stranger time becomes. By imagining how light travels to two people moving at different speeds, Einstein showed that time isn’t absolute. His thought experiment revealed that ...
Einstein in 1946, a few years before he typed out his thoughts on animal physics. Photo: Photo by Central Press/Getty Images (Getty Images) In 1949, a 70-year-old Albert Einstein shot off a message to ...
Albert Einstein thought he had made the breakthrough of his career and wrote a letter to his son sharing the news. It turned out not to be so. But in his letter, the physicist took a rare moment to ...