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Physicists Just Found a Quirk in Einstein's Predictions of Space-Time

The fabric of space and time is not exempt from the effects of gravity. Plop in a mass and space-time curves around it, not dissimilar to what happens when you put a bowling ball on a trampoline. This ...
Quanta Magazine

Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic ...
Billings Gazette

President Bush picks university physicist and space enthusiast as new NASA chief

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — President Bush on Friday picked physicist Michael Griffin to lead NASA as it prepares to resume space shuttle flights and tries to meet the White House goal of sending ...
Live Science

Scientists claim to find 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' which could finally reveal the nature of dark energy

Physicists claim they may have found a long-awaited explanation for dark energy, the mysterious force that's driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, a new preprint study hints. Their ...