Nikola Tesla is a name that is placed next to Einstein, Maxwell, Faraday, Leibnitz, Ohm, Ampere, and all the other legendary figures of science. But does he deserve to be there, or does he deserve to be on top of them all? It was July 10, 1856, that when he…
Here are 33 weird historical facts you probably didn’t learn in school. Some of them will astonish you, some will puzzle you and some will entertain you. 1. In the Great Fire of London in 1666, which destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches, and the cathedral of St. Paul, and left…
The term “black hole” refers to regions in space formed when a star dies and collapses under the pressure of its own gravity to a single point in space called a singularity. The gravitational forces on a specific singularity are so intense that even the light cannot escape them, and…
When Albert Einstein stipulated his theories on general and special relativity, he proved that travelling with the speed of light is the absolute limit any material object could achieve. Yet, in 1994, a Mexican scientist said that travelling faster than light was possible while Einstein’s theories would still hold true.…
“I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres We all know, deep down,…
Using photons, Australian scientists managed to create a model in which quantum particles can move back in time. As it turned out, the laws of standard quantum mechanics may be violated at the same time. Physicists from the University of Queensland in Australia set out to simulate a computer experiment,…
Physicists call them "wormholes", and in fact, they are the Einstein’s field equations for gravity. Theoretically, wormholes are tunnels that connect different points in spacetime. In simple words, if someone enters a wormhole located, for example, in our solar system, they can get to a remote location of the galaxy…
Until now it was thought that the tunnels in spacetime predicted by Albert Einstein cannot exist long enough to transfer light photons through them. Now, scientists have proposed a new concept of sending information through time. Dr. Luke Butcher, a physicist at Cambridge University, has suggested that there may exist…