IN Mr. Bertrand Russell's article in the new volumes of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" entitled "Relativity Philosophical Consequences," there occurs the following sentence: "The observer who is often ...

Beverly Hills-based studio Relativity Media has signed a lease for its first New York location, Commercial Observer has learned. The studio signed a 10-year deal for the entire 16,874-square-foot ...

The principle of relativity, as initially described by Galileo, posits that the laws of physics remain consistent regardless of an observer's relative motion. Einstein's special relativity ...

One of the tenets of Einstein's theory of general relativity is that an observer, carrying out local measurements, cannot determine if they are being accelerated in the absence of gravitational fields ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. General relativity famously involves the warping of space and time by ...

Simulating the interactions between relativistic objects -- those travelling close to the speed of light -- can take enormous amounts of computer time. But according to Jean-Luc Vay of Lawrence ...