This course will give a basic introduction to Einstein's special theory of relativity followed by a close reading of his classic paper on gravitation and the general theory of relativity, from 1915.

THE number of systematic treatises on relativity is not unduly large. This is partly because, since the first few years after Einstein's announcement of the 'general' theory in 1917, it has undergone ...

“Black holes don’t suck,” says astrophysicist Bennett (Life in the Universe); in fact, their exotic nature is the perfect way to explore relativity. The special theory of relativity, proposed by ...

On the eve of the recent major snowstorm, students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Nixon Lounge of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library to listen to Thomas W. Baumgarte, William R. Kenan Professor of ...

Clocks are at the heart of GPS. Advances in space-qualified atomic clocks that kept time to within 10 nanoseconds over a day were a key development that made GPS possible. It turns out that GPS must ...