Warp drive has long been shorthand for “pure fantasy,” a narrative device that lets starships hop between stars without ...

Disclaimer: I am very much a physics noob. This might be a nonsensical question. That spacetime can be curved or warped is something I can grasp, but I keep getting stuck on one specific aspect of how ...

Their work introduces a new concept called q-desics, short for quantum-corrected paths through space–time. These paths ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

I've been trying to explain quantum physics, forces, relativity, and space-time to my kid and we had a question that I'm finding difficult to find a solid answer to. Background you can skip if you ...

A breakthrough in optics could revolutionize the study of space-time and quantum phenomena, and make our ultimate experiment possible. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

(Nanowerk News) According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, space and time are inextricably connected. In our Universe, whose curvature is barely measurable, the structure of this spacetime is fixed ...

Einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1915, relates spacetime curvature to matter distribution, leading to the Schwarzschild solution describing a black hole. The Schwarzschild ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...