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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new poll finds that Asian-American voters in Illinois are up for grabs, but neither major political party seems to be capitalizing on this. “Asian-American voters are really quite solidly behind the ...