THE author has an idea: 16 to 18-year-olds should be taught special relativity at school. Most students learn it only if they take physics at university: the theory is considered too ...

Many years ago I was asked to write a book for the ‘average teenager’ explaining Einstein's theories of relativity. Being naive, and not knowing any average teenagers, I took up the challenge. I ...

Cambridge Univ. Press: 2007. 236 pp. £30. Although those well versed in the field will quibble that he has left out a particular part of the field, Mermin's focus on a detailed exposition of a few ...

Prague, Sept 26 (CTK) – American solid-state physicist Nathaniel David Mermin will receive the annual Vision 97 prize from the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation on October 5, Eva Gajdosova told CTK ...

Why do moving rulers shrink (length contraction) and moving clocks run slow (time dilation) such that everyone measures the same speed of light c, regardless of their relative motions? Einstein ...

There are three types of quantum physicists: (1) those who think quantum mechanics is defaced by a so-called measurement problem; (2) those who think, as I do, that there is no ...