Gravity

UC Berkeley’s Quantum Leap in Dark Energy Research

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Physicists at UC Berkeley immobilized small clusters of cesium atoms (pink blobs) in a vertical vacuum chamber, then split each ...

How Modified Gravity Challenges Einstein and Dark Matter

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Using gravitational lensing, scientists uncovered that dark matter may stretch over a million light-years from galactic centers, proposing significant adjustments ...

Now that’s what I call death defying! Scientists suggest building a Wall of Death on the moon to help keep astronauts fit in low gravity

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Scientists say that running on a ‘Wall of Death’ could keep people fit on the moon Running horizontally generates enough ...

Exploring the “Cosmic Glitch” in Gravity

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Researchers propose a modification to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, suggesting a “cosmic glitch” that makes gravity slightly weaker across ...

Scientists discover ‘cosmic glitch’ at the edge of the universe –

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WATERLOO, Ontario — Have scientists discovered a “cosmic glitch” in the gravity of the universe? That’s what a team in Canada ...

Graviton-like Particles Found in Quantum Experiments

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Light probing a chiral graviton mode in a fractional quantum Hall effect liquid. Credit: Lingjie Du, Nanjing University The results, ...

Quantum Gravity Unveiled – Scientists Crack the Cosmic Code That Baffled Einstein

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Researchers have developed a method to measure gravity at a microscopic level, marking a significant advancement in understanding quantum gravity. ...

There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding

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But there may be opportunities to indirectly spot the signatures of those gravitons. One strategy Vafa and his collaborators are ...

Nesting Doll Stars Proposed as Solution to General Relativity

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If you asked an astrophysicist what is yet to be discovered in the universe, there’s a good chance they’d paraphrase ...

Why Does Gravity Pull Us Down and Not Up?

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Einstein’s general relativity explains gravity as the result of spacetime curvature due to mass, contrasting with magnetism’s dual ability to ...

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