ACES will gather ultra-precise data across at least ten observation windows, each lasting about 25 days during the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched ACES, or the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, to the International Space Station ...

Special relativity tells us motion warps space and time. Einstein’s central coup with general relativity was to combine that with a principle noted over three centuries earlier by Galileo ...

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, ...

Ten years before general relativity, Einstein came up with special relativity, which explained the relationship between space and time – and how they are related to each other. 'Special' means ...

Albert Einstein had described the special theory of relativity in ... he published the general theory of relativity. In it, he suggested that gravity is not a force, as Newton had believed ...

The special theory of relatively left Einstein with many questions still unanswered. He didn't let them go, however, and in answering them he developed the general theory of relativity ten years ...

His theory of special relativity stemmed from his desire ... In 1908, before Einstein published his work on general relativity, mathematician Hermann Minkowski introduced the concept of four ...

Excerpt from the back cover: This book will serve readers as a modern mathematical introduction to the general theory of relativity. Throughout the book, examples, worked out problems, and exercises ...

Special relativity and Lorentz transformations; Scalar and electromagnetic fields; Curved spacetime and the metric tensor; The equivalence principle; Geodesics, covariant derivatives, and Killing ...