THE WEIRD NATURE OF “TIME”
Introduction Let’s begin with a simple fact: time passes faster in the mountains than it does at sea level! The difference is small, but it has been measured and it…
ADVANCED RELATIVITY – II
In my previous article, we saw how light travels at a 450 angle and any particle with mass will always have at a velocity less than the speed of light.…
ADVANCED RELATIVITY – I
To understand relativity you just need an understanding of basic algebra. However, things become truly nasty when we start thinking about the events in different frames of reference. One of…
SPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR BEGINNERS
Albert Einstein, in his 1905 paper (On the electrodynamics of moving bodies) formulated a physical theory that described the relationship between space and time. This theory which was built on…
ABSTRACT NATURE OF TIME
Time has been a long run debating topic for many people in the scientific community. The notion of time has changed over the centuries in the field of physics. At…
UNDERSTANDING THE FOURTH DIMENSION
Hey friends! I assure you that this post would be one of the amazing posts by me. It was very fun to review my old notes and to go through…
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING
WHAT IS GRAVITATIONAL LENSING? A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer, which is capable of bending the…