Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. In one of David Lodge's comic novels about academia, the ...

At the heart of every resonator — be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone — there is a beautiful bit of mathematics that has been heretofore unacknowledged.

Philip Goff received funding from the Templeton Foundation while writing his latest book. Miriam Frankel, the editor, has in the past written a scientific literature review about fine tuning for ...