ZUOYUE WANG, From Modern Physics to the Cold War and Beyond, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Vol. 50, No. 1/2 (APRIL 2020), pp. 25-30 ...

THE leading idea of Prof. A. Einstein's Herbert Spencer lecture, entitled, “The Method of Theoretical Physics”, delivered at Oxford on June 10 was the relation between experience and reason in ...

Different subgroups within the theoretical-physics community viewed the state of the field in dramatically different ways. Those, such as members of the Sommerfeld school in Munich, who saw the task ...

His book is not intended to be a serious critical study of the history of physics, but rather an outline that will enable the modern student to appreciate the labours of the pioneers of the science.

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that travel at speeds greater than the speed of light. These superluminal particles, are the "enfant terrible" of modern physics. Until recently, they were ...

Bringing gravity into the fold has been the goal of generations of physicists, who have struggled to reconcile the incompatibility of two cornerstones of modern physics: quantum field theory and ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...