Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When they asked why I picked that equation, here's what I said: "The ...

When Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel designed his famous freestanding 986-foot iron tower in Paris in the late 19th century, he did so without modern science or engineering. But mathematicians have long ...

Physicists’ main goal is to be able to predict what will happen in the future based on patterns they’ve already observed, whether in massive systems of stars or tiny groups of atoms. Predicting ...

Everything in physics is described by an equation. Equations can describe the shape of lines, curves, surfaces, and just about any object you can think of. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to think of ...