It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

Pulsars serve as unique astronomical laboratories for stringent tests of general relativity in strong gravitational fields, with precision timing measurements of binary pulsars constraining ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

If the recent discovery of gravitational waves emanating from the early universe holds up under scrutiny, it will illuminate a connection between gravity and quantum mechanics and perhaps, in the ...

For the past few days, rumours have been swirling that the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO) has detected gravitiational waves. Advanced LIGO comprises two ...

Newtonian physics postulates gravity's action as instantaneous, implying infinite speed, contrasting with Einstein's relativity. Einstein's general relativity predicts that gravitational interactions ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In a moment over 100 years in the making, the 2017 Nobel Prize in ...

Two projects born a century ago in the mind of Albert Einstein, and the scientific leaders behind them, won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for detecting gravitational waves. Rainer Weiss won one half ...

In this video from the 2017 Intel HPC Developer Conference, Dr. Joshua L. Willis from the California Institute of Technology and Dan Stanzione from TACC present: Gravitational Waves: The Role of ...