Most of us have dreamed of traveling through time, backward or forwards, faster than those around us. And surprisingly, recent work has shown us that time travel is far more than just a dream. In fact, a number of researchers have explored, and are currently exploring, the legitimacy of time travel. While they haven’t quite […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s show Star Talk is ending its fourth season with a bang—a big one. The big one, to be precise. The show, filmed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, features famous astrophysicist Tyson interviewing famous-for-things-other-than-physics folks through the lens of science. For this Sunday’s season finale, Tyson’s guest […]
Paul Davies has a lot on his mind—or perhaps more accurate to say in his mind. A physicist at Arizona State University, he does research on a wide range of topics, from the abstract fields of theoretical physics and cosmology to the more concrete realm of astrobiology, the study of life in places beyond Earth. […]
(NEWSER) – For many, 2016 can’t end soon enough. For everyone, though, it’s actually going to last one second longer than usual. With New Year’s Eve approaching, outlets such as Phys.org are reminding people that an extra “leap second” will be added to the final day of 2016 in order to keep our earthly time-keeping […]
In the appropriately named New York Times, James Gleick uses the switch from daylight to standard time to make a case for dropping time zones altogether, writing: Most people would be happy to dispense with this oddity of timekeeping, first imposed in Germany 100 years ago. But we can do better. We need to deep-six […]
“Where did the time go?” middle-aged and older adults often remark. Many of us feel that time passes more quickly as we age, a perception that can lead to regrets. According to psychologist and BBC columnist Claudia Hammond, “the sensation that time speeds up as you get older is one of the biggest mysteries of […]
Scientists have directly observed gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime, for the second time—confirming the start of a new era of astronomy. Much like the historic first observation announced in February, the second event marked the cataclysmic embrace of two black holes more than a billion years ago. This fatal attraction sent shockwaves […]
Scientists have come up with a clock so accurate that it could even redefine the length of a second. Currently, time is measured on the idea of a pendulum, or in the case of an atomic clock, the natural back-and-forth rhythm of a caesium atom. Similarly, the length of a second is defined as the […]
