So theory crafting as per Einstein imagining what it's like riding on a beam of light. If space-time expands in 5 dimensions, then the light speed barrier becomes emergent. Ie Space expands (in a 5th ...

The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because gravity pulls clouds of gas and dust toward the center of mass. The same holds for black ...

E. Bour, Théorie de la déformation des surfaces, Journal de l’ Êcole Imperiale Polytechnique 22, Cahier 39 (1862), 1-148. M. P. Do Carmo and M. Dajczer, Helicoidal surfaces with constant mean ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from Science Tokyo, has developed a five-dimensional Langevin model that accurately reproduces the complex fission fragment distributions and ...

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you’ll ...

Skoltech scientists have devised a mathematical model of memory. By analyzing its new model, the team came to surprising conclusions that could prove useful for robot design, artificial intelligence, ...