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How to prove a railroad bridge won’t break (illustration)

As the Union Pacific Railroad was being constructed, an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a ...

Einstein’s Test of Growing Old (illustration)

None of Einstein’s ideas have so fascinated the public and provoked such controversy among physicists as the so-called “clock paradox.” This paradox is based on the assumption that time passes more slowly for an object in motion than one at rest. Thus, if Einste …