Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

Spacetime itself would also need to be “quantized,” or broken down into constituent parts. This is what the notorious string theory attempts to do, as does loop quantum gravity, currently considered a ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

In Einstein's famous theory of relativity the concepts of immutable space and time aren't just put aside, they're explicitly and emphatically rejected. Space and time are now woven into a coexisting ...

A team of scientists has used X-ray and gamma-ray observations of some of the most distant objects in the Universe to better understand the nature of space and time. Their results set limits on the ...

For over a century, scientists have been intrigued to decode the perplexing scenery behind contemporary physics. It's been up for many years, and yet the experts still have no idea how to bridge the ...

There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new theory suggests that the unification between quantum physics and general relativity has ...

How to build a particle collider the size of the solar system. To observe the quantum nature of gravity and of spacetime itself, we need a particle collider the size of the solar system. Or we could ...