relativity

  • Einstein: Space-Time Curvature

    Einstein: Space-Time Curvature

    When you hear about “space-time,” it’s just a way to say that space is related to time. And the curvature of space-time, as Albert Einstein predicted, is the way space and time alike literally bend around a mass such as the…

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  • Einstein: General Relativity

    Einstein: General Relativity

    Albert Einstein may have been the genius among physicists, but like all others before his time, he stood on the shoulders of giants. Einstein did not propose that the sun was the center of the solar system; that idea was…

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  • Einstein: Special Relativity

    Einstein: Special Relativity

    Albert Einstein’s name literally sends shivers down my spine. This is the man who discovered physics as we know it. This is the man who filled in the gaps where even Newton’s laws of motion went wrong and expanded our…

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