The flow of time isn’t as consistent as we might think – gravity slows it down, so clocks on the surface of Earth tick slower than those in space. Now researchers have measured time passing at ...
A team of researchers in Austria has recently demonstrated that the world’s first nuclear clock could help answer whether the ...
Some events happen too fast to be captured in a photograph, no matter how quickly you hit the camera button. For example, certain quantum events are considered to be instantaneous, so they're hard to ...
A millimeter might not seem like much. But even a distance that small can alter the flow of time. “This is fantastic,” says theoretical physicist Marianna Safronova of the University of Delaware in ...
A CENTURY ago, two intellectual giants met to debate the nature of time. One was the French philosopher Henri Bergson, a superstar whose fans caused the first traffic jam on Broadway in New York as ...