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Testing the theory: taking Einstein to primary schools

By David Blair, University of Western Australia

School students today are taught physics based on obsolete theories and outmoded ways of thinking. Instead of the truth, most learn a naive simplification – the 300 year-old Newtonian physics, itself based…
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Explainer: gravity

By David Blair, University of Western Australia

I have spent almost 40 years trying to detect gravity waves. When I started there were just a few of us working away in university labs. Today 1,000 physicists working with billion-dollar observatories…

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Does antimatter weigh more than matter?

University of California, Riverside

Researchers have developed, for the first time, a method to efficiently produce long-lived “positronium” – a bound state…

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