A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

In Keynes’s 1936 publication, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, he speaks of animal spirits as the human emotions that affect consumer confidence. Today, animal spirits ...

The British economist John Maynard Keynes formally introduced the concept of the multiplier in his "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" in 1936. Keynes cited a lack of aggregate ...

Today, we cannot imagine modern astrophysics without the general theory of relativity: no matter if it's black holes, quasars, or gravitational lenses – it plays an important role in all these fields.

In 2015, the general theory of relativity will be 100 years old. In November 2015, Albert Einstein gave weekly lectures to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in which he set out the fundamental field ...

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Here we explore what the theory of general relativity is and how it affects space-time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Here’s how it works. Albert Einstein wins again. His general theory of relativity has proved accurate in predicting how light travels from some of the most distant galaxy clusters in the ...

Einstein's general theory of relativity is one of humankind's greatest achievements, and the theory passed its first test in what is now part of Broome's lawn bowls club in far north-west Australia.