albert einstein
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Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives
Speculative new research outlines a method for detecting extraterrestrial civilizations: by catching the gravitational waves produced by the collapse, or failure, of their warp drives. Sounds wild, but the concept is grounded in the principles of Einstein’s general relativity. Warp drives, inspired by Albert Einstein’s grasp of cosmological physics, were first mathematically modeled by physicist…
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Russian Cosmonaut Sets New Time Travel Record After Spending 879 Days in Orbit
As of Sunday, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has clocked more time in Earth orbit than any other astronaut, surpassing the mark held by his Russian colleague Gennady Padalka. And as a fun quirk introduced by Einstein’s Special and General Theories of Relativity, Kononenko has travelled farther into the future than anyone else—even if by the…
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90 Seconds to Midnight: What Does the Doomsday Clock Actually Mean?
What does the Doomsday Clock actually signifiy? What does it mean to be 90 seconds from midnight? Let’s dive into it.
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Albert Einstein Ponders Birds and Bees in Previously Unpublished Letter
In 1949, a 70-year-old Albert Einstein shot off a message to England-based radar researcher Glyn Davys. The topic wasn’t physics or radar — it was birds and bees and the way those animals navigate.