Posts Tagged ‘theory of relativity’
Binary stars have a fatal attraction
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — A pair of burnt-out stars spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds will merge and possibly explode as a supernova in about 900,000 years. Continue…
Friday, July 15, 2011 15:06 - 1 Comment
Science & Technology - Jun 14, 2011 14:51 - 0 Comments
Superconductivity, Einstein team up
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Scientists have used Einstein’s theory of relativity to demonstrate it is possible to reproduce the Josephson junction, a main ingredient in superconductivity applications. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 6, 2010 13:14 - 0 Comments
New model gives quantum theory a shove
SYRACUSE U. (US)—Physicists recently developed a new theoretical model to explain how, under certain rare conditions, more than one electron can simultaneously occupy the same quantum state. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 30, 2009 5:47 - 2 Comments
Race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins
STANFORD (US)—Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA’s orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of debate among physicists over Einstein’s special theory of relativity because one of the photons possessed a million times more energy than the other. (more…)
