We live in the present, moving through time. As events come and go, everything fades into the past. But what is time, really?

Recent scientific breakthroughs are making concepts once confined to science fiction, like time travel, seem tantalizingly ...

This week’s 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity is a geeky cause for celebration, but what’s arguably the concept’s toughest test has just gotten under way. General ...

Well connected: an optical clock at PTB was used in the comparison. (Courtesy: PTB) Atomic clocks in France, Germany and the UK have been used to perform the best-ever confirmation of time dilation as ...

To make the admittedly weird concept of relativity easier to understand, a team of developers has created a video game that slows down the speed of light. Relativity is the theory that space and time ...

On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

The theories of Prof. Albert Einstein and those of other theoretical physicists and mathematicians were attacked here this week-end by Viscount Samuel, who has been president of the Royal Institute of ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Since 1950, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has presented the best new work in the discipline. An ...

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