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Testing Relativity, Black Holes And Strange Attractors In The Laboratory
July 20, 2009 — Physicists have determined that the interactions of light and matter with spacetime, as predicted by general relativity, can be studied using the new breed of artificial optical materials that ... > full story -
Quantum Goes Massive: Profound Effect Of Astrophysics Experiment On Future Quantum Experiments
July 16, 2009 — An astrophysics experiment in America has demonstrated how fundamental research in one subject area can have a profound effect on work in another as the instruments used for the Laser Interferometer ... > full story -
Linking Quantum Physics With Classical Physics: Basis Of Einstein's First Approximation In The Theory Of Relativity Investigated
July 15, 2009 — In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of "The Meaning of Relativity," Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. Einstein ... > full story -
Physical Reality Of String Theory Shown In Quantum-Critical State Of Electrons
July 6, 2009 — String theory has come under fire in recent years. Promises have been made that have not been lived up to. Theoretical physicists have now for the first time used string theory to describe a physical ... > full story -
Einstein’s General Theory Of Relativity: Celebrating The 20th Century's Most Important Experiment
May 28, 2009 — In 1919, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) launched an expedition to the West African island of Príncipe, to observe a total solar eclipse and prove or disprove Einstein's General Theory of ... > full story -
Physics: Interferometer Gets More Quiet Mirrors
May 26, 2009 — In physics many subtle phenomena can be studied by allowing waves to interfere with each other. In an interferometer, light waves travel by two different paths, directed from place to place by ... > full story -
'Star Trek' Warp Speed? Physicists Have New Idea That Could Make It So
May 7, 2009 — With the new movie 'Star Trek' opening in theaters across the nation, one thing movie goers will undoubtedly see is the Starship Enterprise racing across the galaxy at the speed of light. But can ... > full story -
Star Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel, Physicist Finds
May 6, 2009 — Research by a theoretical physicist shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal ... > full story -
Study Plunges Standard Theory Of Cosmology Into Crisis
May 5, 2009 — Do we have to modify Newton's theory of gravitation as it fails to explain so many observations? Voices are increasingly being heard that support this heretical hypothesis. Two new studies are likely ... > full story -
40-Year Mystery Revisited: Newtonian System Mimics 'Baldness' Of Rotating Black Holes
February 23, 2009 — In 1968, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Brandon Carter showed that a particle's wild gyrations while orbiting a rotating black hole nevertheless hold another variable fixed, which was named ... > full story
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