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March 2010
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The Institute of Physics and Rambert Dance Company are planning to celebrate the theories of Einstein through dance.

Tags: physics : dance : Einstein : photon : Brownian motion : einstein year : rambert dance company : special relativity


This issue takes you on a mathematical journey from the the world of art all the way to the eighth dimension. And you can pick up some handy skills along the way - how to win at the races, watch your averages and how to run and hide at the same time.

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One hundred years ago, in 1905, Albert Einstein changed physics forever with his special theory of relativity. Since then his name — and hair do — have become synonymous with genius. John D Barrow looks at Einstein as a media star.

Tags: public understanding of mathematics : mathematics in the media : physics : Einstein


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Over the last few years the words string theory have nudged their way into public consciousness. It's a theory of everything in which everything's made of strings — or something like that. But why strings? What do they do? Where did the idea come from and why do we need such a theory? David Berman has an equation-free introduction for beginners.

Tags: gravity : physics : string theory : quantum mechanics : Newton's Principia : general relativity : Einstein : Newton : relativity : quantum uncertainty : quantum gravity


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Most of us are aware that Einstein proved that everything was relative ... or something like that. But we go no further, believing that we aren't clever enough to understand what he did. Hardeep Aiden sets out to persuade readers that they too can understand an idea as elegantly simple as it was original.

Tags: Einstein : special relativity : time dilation : relative velocity : inertial frame : muon : twin paradox : relativity


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Was Einstein right?

Tags: cosmology : physics : Einstein : cosmological inflation


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Will Einstein's general theory of relativity hold true?

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Einstein proved correct, ..... again!

Tags: Doppler shift : Einstein : special relativity : time dilation


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And what are gravitational waves?

Tags: gravity : cosmology : astronomy : gravitational wave detector : black hole : general relativity : Einstein : Newton : special relativity : gravitational wave