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Since its introduction by Albert Einstein in 1905 (ref. 1), special relativity has been the accepted theory of local space-time. It not only resolved severe open questions in electrodynamics but ...

One of the goals of modern physics is to determine the underlying rules that govern our reality. Indeed, one of the wonders of the universe is that just a few rules seem to describe many aspects of ...

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Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...