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Time Travel Deemed Mathematically Possible (Flux Capacitor is Not Required)
Mathematicians have calculated that time travel is possible, however before you start your plans to stop yourself buying ‘No Mans Sky’, there is a catch. Ben Tippett from the University of British Columbia and David Tsang from the University of Maryland have together created a mathematical framework which would make…
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Einstein’s Theory Confirmed as First Gravitational Waves Detected
100 years after their existence was predicted by eminent physicist Albert Einstein, a team of scientists have detected the existence of gravitational waves. On 14th September, 2015, the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGO), one in Linvingston, Louisiana, and the other in Hanford, Washington – both in the US…
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New Website Lets You Browse Einstein’s Papers Free
Digital Einstein is a new website that opens up all of Einstein’s papers for free. The site includes not only scientific papers, but personal letters, memos and even divorce papers. The New York Times reports that all of the documents are personal papers either sent or received by Albert Einstein…
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Scientists Have Simulated a Time Travel Scenario… But Only with Photons
Time travel is a thing for science fiction, a theory that has been debated for a long time, but without any physical proof of it being possible. Scientific advancements and human curiosity however tends to take imagination to the next level. This is the case of a few scientists from…
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MIT Game Lab Releases Open Relativity, Experiment With Special Relativity
Students and researchers of the MIT Game Lab have released an open-source toolkit to simulate the visual effects of special relativity in games and graphics applications. Intended for game developers, educators and anyone interested in physics, OpenRelativity can help people create, test and share experiments to explore the effects of…
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