The hyperdrive from Star Wars appears to depict an ultra-relativistic motion through space, extremely close to the speed of light. Under the laws of relativity, you neither reach nor exceed the speed ...

The principle of relativity, as initially described by Galileo, posits that the laws of physics remain consistent regardless of an observer's relative motion. Einstein's special relativity ...

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I don’t know, ask Erwin Schrödinger. He was a relative of mine on my mother’s side. He told her mum, but she couldn’t understand it either. We’ve been in the dark ever since. The laws of the universe ...