BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...

Foreword / Diana Kormos Buchwald -- Preface -- Part I. Preliminaries. Introduction -- Einstein's first trip to America -- Structure and contents of The meaning of relativity -- Part II. The emerging ...

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Dr. Albert Einstein delivered his first major speech in the United States at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University) on Dec. 28, 1934. The ...

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (J.C.B.) will be glad to answer inquiries for further information about any of the news items contained in this Bulletin. Professor Albert Einstein will lecture on the ...

THERE is a special appropriateness, as Prof. Sampson points out, in choosing a gravitational subject for the Halley Lecture, in view of the important part that Halley played in securing the ...

Relativity is our modern understanding of space-time and gravity.” Most of us learn in school that gravity is the weak force of attraction between objects that have mass, but even Newton himself, as ...

IT appears that the following proof of the Lorentz transformation, which occurred to me when preparing a lecture on relativity, is not generally known among students of relativity, though I would be ...

Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for a theory that half of the people might not even have heard of. His Theory of Relativity, though world-changing, was not cited. Yet while delivering his ...