He further added, "We learned from Einstein that Maxwell's equations were relativistic (i.e., invariant under Lorentz transformation) 40 years before relativity.

Light is closely integrated with our intellectual, philosophical and scientific discourse. The exact nature of light has remained a mystery since we stepped on earth. Newton postulated the corpuscular ...

New Delhi [India], March 18: Light is closely integrated with our intellectual, philosophical and scientific discourse. The exact nature of light has remained a mystery since we stepped on earth.

Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves are generated under specific interactions. Light also bends around ...

In 1905, Albert Einstein shook up physics by proposing that light wasn’t just a wave, but it could also behave like a collection of particles (which were later called photons). This outrageous idea, ...

1905 is referred to as the “miracle year” by physicists. In that one year, Albert Einstein published four papers that laid the foundations of modern physics. One of the major breakthroughs ...