Observations of the cosmic microwave background, the light released when the universe was 380,000 years old, show that the speed of light hasn't measurably changed in over 13.8 billion years. In ...
It’s all down to general relativity, say our readers - although measuring the speed of gravity isn’t a piece of cake ...
Researchers have unveiled a new photonic in-memory computing method that promises to advance optical computing significantly.
"We speed up the velocity of electrons to 80% the speed of light," Wang said. That's an acceleration of zero to more than 500 million miles per hour—over the span of just two inches inside the ...
There are a number of ways to measure the speed of light. If you’ve got an oscilloscope and a few spare parts, you can build your own apparatus for just a few bucks. Don’t believe the “lies ...
In special relativity, the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit to the universe. Every single moving object in the universe is constrained by that fundamental limit. This isn’t something ...
A series of new animations by a NASA scientist show just how zippy - and also torturously slow - the speed of light can be. Light-speed is the fastest that any material object can travel through ...
We know that measuring the speed of light with an Arduino is possible. It’s just that the implementation is hard. [Udo] hit upon the idea of pulsing a laser pointer and measuring the time of the ...
High-frequency trading firms rule everything around us. But their current dominance was never inevitable, according to Donald MacKenzie, a sociologist at the University of Edinburgh. Riding on the ...
A new photonic processor efficiently solves complex NP-complete problems using light, offering faster computation and ...
Researchers have developed a faster and more accurate method for acquiring and reconstructing high-quality 3D surface ...