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The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched ACES, or the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space, to the International Space Station ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched one of its most precise science experiments to date — the Atomic Clock Ensemble ...
A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...
Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed up in just 12 words: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve”. But this short description from the ...
Einstein's theory of general relativity states that objects with mass curve the very fabric of space-time (the three dimensions of space united with the one dimension of time), and gravity arises ...
Physicists have taken a bold step beyond Einstein's special theory of relativity, proposing an expansion of special relativity that includes observers moving faster than light. This fresh perspective ...
Lovell’s time also slowed down by about 100 microseconds during the four-day flight of Gemini 12. Thus, during all their missions in space, Lovell and Borman respectively spent 200 and 100 ...
IT is often thought that the theory of curved space-time (general relativity theory) accounts for gravitation but does not account for the electromagnetic phenomena. This is not so.