China has quietly solved a problem that only becomes obvious once you try to live and work off-world: clocks on the moon do ...
Physicists are quietly advancing a radical idea: time might not be a single, thin line but a full three‑dimensional landscape ...
NPL has shared the results of a time dilation demonstration—which shows that time travels faster as height increases, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The demonstration ...
Thanks to Albert Einstein, the US Government wants to establish an official time zone for the Moon. It has less to do with jet lag and more to do with how gravity affects time and can throw a lot of ...
110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...
Timekeeping on the Moon is a trickier problem than you might think. It’s not just the fact that it doesn’t have a diurnal cycle like Earth does — or that one “day” on the Moon is equal to about 29.5 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Two cutting-edge atomic clocks — the most accurate ever ...
Time has an arrow: It only ever seems to move in one direction. The future is always unknown to us, while the past forever remains locked and inaccessible. And yet, the vast majority of the laws of ...