Special relativity passes key test. 28 Oct 2009 NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008. Scientists studying radiation from a distant gamma-ray burst have found that the speed of ...

Overall, Kostelecky says, this is the best test of special relativity violations in any system to date, and improved imaging of distant galaxies will only sharpen it.

You won't go broke betting on Einstein's ideas to hold up. Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity has survived one of its stiffest tests yet. A concept called the Lorentz Invariance, named ...

Tests of special relativity are crucial: not only is the theory a cornerstone of modern physics, but tests could lead to a long-sought-after ‘theory of everything’ or the discovery of quantum gravity ...

This amounts to a verification of the special theory of relativity three times more accurate than previous tests based on the Kennedy-Thorndike method. The 190-day measurement was made possible by the ...

As it stands now, special relativity, ... Various tests of this principle have been carried out that were capable of picking up differences in energies as small as 10-7 GeV; ...

THE following is a preliminary report of an investigation performed to test directly, in a terrestrial experiment, the second postulate of special relativity, which states that the velocity of ...

Combining special relativity with quantum mechanics proved to be difficult. In 1928, Paul Dirac and others successfully worked out the mathematics to combine the two fields of physics, but it left ...

A Possible Way to Test for Cracks in Special Relativity . ... One of the fundamental tenets of Einstein’s special theory of relativity is that the laws of physics are the same regardless of your ...

The journal Nature’s special report, “General Relativity at 100,” focuses on the past and the future of relativity research, and offers a companion e-book for $9.99.

Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than expected from general relativity and could help physicists to make a significant step towards the long-sought-after quantum theory ...