EVER since Albert Einstein struggled to present relativity in layman’s terms in 1916, physicists have sought ways to make its counterintuitions accessible. Stannard starts refreshingly with eight ...

HERE is a readable book, excellently translated, for which we have again to thank Mr. H. L. Brose. Though it is called an introduction to the theory of relativity and gravitation, it is more strictly ...

In Newtonian physics, space and time had their independent identities, and nobody ever got them mixed up. It was with the theory of relativity, put together in the early 20th century, that talking ...