During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...

Einstein's contribution to physics was so great he still remains a superstar. But physicists Arthur Eddington, Hermann Weyl and mathematician David Hilbert were not so fortunate, with some facing ...

To many, Einstein became a symbol of postwar rapprochement and a return to reason. As Eddington wrote to him less than a month after the eclipse announcement, “For scientific relations between ...

Eddington found the apparent location of the stars had shifted, just as Einstein predicted. Further proofs of Einstein's theory came with advancing technology through the 1960s and continue in the ...

Einstein himself tried to prove that such an object—a black hole, it was later christened—could not exist. Like Eddington, he loathed what would be found at a black hole’s center ...

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity ... British astronomers Arthur Stanley Eddington and Frank Watson Dyson showed that the sun's gravity well deflected light from distant stars ...