Physicists are quietly advancing a radical idea: time might not be a single, thin line but a full three‑dimensional landscape. If that is true, the equations that describe the universe have to be ...

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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 ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...

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By studying ripples in space-time, physicists are testing wheather dark energy might stem from hidden dimensions, elusive ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works extremely well in its own domain: Quantum theory explains how atoms and ...

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