In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.

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It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

Scientists are exploring a revolutionary theory that suggests human consciousness might operate as a quantum hologram, ...

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.