News tagged with special theory of relativity
The annihilating effects of space travel
Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Pions don't want to decay into faster-than-light neutrinos, study finds
When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to ...
Dec 23, 2011 |
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'Faster-than-light' particles spark science drama
Oh Albert. Did you get it wrong? In 2011, physics was shaken by an experiment which said the Universe's speed limit, enshrined by Einstein in his 1905 theory of special relativity, could be broken.
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Gee Whizzz! Basics on faster-than-light research
Some questions and answers about the experiment that appeared to show particles speeding faster than light.
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Physicists wary of junking light speed limit yet
(AP) -- Physicists on the team that measured particles traveling faster than light said Friday they were as surprised as their skeptics about the results, which appear to violate the laws of nature as we ...
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged (Update 3)
One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world's foremost laboratories.
Sep 22, 2011 |
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New look at relativity: Electrons can't exceed the speed of light -- thanks to light itself, says biologist
When resolving why electrons can never beat the speed limit set by light, it might be best to forget about time. Thanks to insight from studying movement inside a biological cell, it seems that light itself -- not the relativity ...
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Radio pulses from pulsar appear to move faster than light
(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory experiments in the last few decades have shown that some things can appear to move faster than light without contradicting Einstein's special theory of relativity, but now astrophysicists ...
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Laser-plasma accelerators ride on Einstein's shoulders
Using Einstein's theory of special relativity to speedup computer simulations, scientists have designed laser-plasma accelerators with energies of 10 billion electron volts (GeV) and beyond. These systems, ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this round
Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish ...
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Researcher Investigates the Basis of Einstein's First Approximation in the Theory of Relativity
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 apparently never ...
Jul 15, 2009 |
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In Memoriam: Martin J. Klein, Historian of Modern Physics, Edited Einstein Papers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein," passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.
Apr 10, 2009 |
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