Physicists have been attempting to explain time since Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity. Prior to Einstein, defining exactly what time really is wasn't necessary. But Einstein brought into play the idea of space-time, an idea that forced those who followed him to try to figure out exactly how people or objects occupy the same space at the same time. The … [Read more...]
The Big Bang Theory
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. We give little thought to the machinery that generates the sunlight that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an Earth that would otherwise send us spinning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally depend. Except for children (who don't know … [Read more...]