These Whale Calls Appear to Break Physics, but the Truth Is Even Weirder
While tracking whale calls near Massachusetts, oceanographer John Spiesberger noticed that the software he was using was clocking…
Scientists find loophole that moves energy faster than light
Two researchers say they have found a way for the energy peak of a wave pulse to reach…
A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path.Special relativity links space…
New tachyon theory could unlock the secrets of time travel and causality
Faster-than-light particles have spent decades in physics as both temptation and warning. They offered a way to test…
Physicists propose that our universe may contain three dimensions of time
Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework…
Physicists propose that our universe may contain three dimensions of time
Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework…
Light can travel for billions of years yet experience no time
A photon emitted from a star a billion light-years away arrives at a telescope having experienced no time…
Distance in space is an illusion
Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact.…