Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

The universe we live in may not be the only one out there. In fact, our universe could be just one of an infinite number of universes making up a "multiverse." Though the concept may stretch credulity ...

When you are forming a thought you could go in a million directions. Or, maybe an infinite number of directions. I’m thinking right now of the beach. I’m thinking of the emerald blue water and white ...

Two possibilities exist: either the Universe is finite and has a size, or it’s infinite and goes on forever. Both possibilities have mind-bending implications. In another episode of Guide to Space, we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. A black hole is an object so compact (usually a collapsed star) that ...

In quantum mechanics, measuring both the position and speed of a particle at the same time is not possible. To identify a particle's characteristics, physicists introduced the notion of ...