Although Einstein's theories suggest nothing can move faster than the speed of light, two scientists have extended his equations to show what would happen if faster-than-light travel were possible.

Einstein’s theories of relativity reshaped physics, but some of their implications are stranger than even he anticipated. When you follow the math to its limits, it predicts black holes, warped time, ...

We prove several theorems concerning the connection between the local CR embeddability of 3-dimensional CR manifolds, and the existence of algebraically special Maxwell and gravitational fields. We ...

Einstein’s equations look simple on paper but when physicists follow them to their logical end, the universe becomes far stranger than anyone expected. Black holes, warped space, time dilation, and ...

Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 161, No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 1143-1193 (51 pages) This is the first in a series of papers in which we initiate the study of very rough solutions to the ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In November 1915, in a lecture before the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein described an idea that upended humanity’s view of the universe.

In 1905, a young patent clerk’s four papers shook the world. The world’s most famous equation E = mc2 emerged that year. But looking back, it only marked the initial performances of Einstein’s ...

Albert Einstein on a bill of 5 Israeli Pounds. A truly spectacular unpublished autograph manuscript produced by German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and exploring his celebrated Unified Field ...

There’s an apocryphal story that still occasionally surfaces about how Albert Einstein flunked math in the fourth grade. That’s not true. But he did occasionally need help with his math. One time, ...

Black holes exist in our universe. That’s widely accepted today. Physicists have detected the X-rays emitted when black holes feed, analyzed the gravitational waves from black hole collisions and even ...