The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of ...

This mind-bending visual twist, known as the Terrell–Penrose effect, was first proposed in 1959 by physicists James Terrell ...

That’s why we enjoyed [Michel van Biezen’s] two part post on how Michelson computed the speed of light in 1927. You can see the videos below. Michelson wasn’t the first, of course.

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.