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Scientists Expect To "See" Miniature Black Holes
November 1, 2001 — An article soon to be published in the conference proceedings of Snowmass 2001, "The Future of Particle Physics," fuels excitement that scientists will be able to see the traces of miniature ... > full story -
"The Dish" Tests Einstein's Warped Space
July 17, 2001 — In the most precise astrophysics experiment ever made, Australian and U.S. astronomers have used Australia's CSIRO Parkes radio telescope to measure the distortion of space-time near a star 450 ... > full story -
Purdue Engineer Goes Back To Class To Put Einstein To The Test
April 2, 2001 — An engineering professor who sat in on a physics course to pursue his lifelong dream of understanding the general theory of relativity not only reached that goal but came up with a new way of testing ... > full story -
University Of Washington Physicists Find That Extra Dimensions Must Be Smaller Than 0.2 Millimeter
February 13, 2001 — University of Washington scientists using gravity measurements to hunt for evidence of dimensions in addition to those already known have found that those dimensions would have to occupy a space ... > full story -
Einstein In Need Of Update? Calculations Show The Speed Of Light Might Change
February 12, 2001 — In 1905, Einstein made major changes to laws of physics when he established his theory of relativity. Now Einstein's laws might also undergo significant changes. Physicists at Texas A&M ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Detect Cosmic Shear, Evidence Of Dark Matter
May 11, 2000 — Astrophysicists supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced the first observations of cosmological shear, an effect predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity. The ... > full story -
Physicists Find More Precise Gravity Number -- And Weigh The Earth
May 1, 2000 — It's a smaller world after all -- that is, if new measurements by University of Washington physicists turn out to be correct. Their new calculations for the Earth's mass came from work that ... > full story -
The Star Splitter: Microlensing Technique Pioneered By NSF Researchers Finds Lone Black Holes Adrift In The Galaxy
January 17, 2000 — In a Robert Frost poem, a farmer relies on a telescope called the "Star Splitter" to satisfy his curiosity about our place in the universe. Two international teams of astronomers supported by ... > full story -
Speed Of Light May Not Be Constant, Physicist Suggests
October 5, 1999 — A University of Toronto professor believes that one of the most sacrosanct rules of 20th-century science -- that the speed of light has always been the same - is wrong. ... > full story -
The Biggest Crashes In The Universe
September 8, 1999 — For the first time scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Golm near Potsdam, Germany, have simulated how two black holes merged into each ... > full story
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