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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. At a fundamental level, there is an equivalence between the mass of an ...

As much as we hate numbers, we know we can’t escape them. Just when you thought you were rid of your primary and high school classes, numbers are everywhere. They can be part of your job and they ...

Albert Einstein is widely seen as the greatest mind of the 20th century, but he was still a human being. Indeed, for all Albert Einstein's legendary breakthroughs in physics, he wasn't perfect, and he ...

How much of a role did Albert Einstein's first wife play in the theory of relativity? In recent years, some historians have asserted that Einstein shared the credit for his research on the special ...