The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of ...

The Terrell-Penrose effect, predicted in 1959, suggests that objects moving at speeds close to that of light appear rotated.

A diagram of light cone from Albert Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity. 1922 Princeton University Press But that’s only half of the light cone idea. A mirror image of a cone beneath the first ...

When physicists announced last week that they had detected subatomic particles, called neutrinos, that appeared to be traveling faster than the speed of light, it seemed to be an exception to a ...

explored the possibilities of ultra-fast photography and the resulting "slowness of light." The results may help us understand the intuitively elusive world of relativity a little better.

Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The hypothetical faster-than-light particle known as the tachyon may marry with the special theory of relativity, according to a team of physicists, making its existence ...

Now, scientists have succeeded for the first time in reproducing the effect using laser pulses and precision cameras -- at an effective speed of light of 2 meters per second. When an object moves ...