Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. This article is more than 5 years old. Could the universe we ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature—one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Quantum mechanics governs the world of particles ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all about the Universe came at the very ...

A deep exploration of how entropy, information theory, quantum mechanics, and emergent gravity reshape our understanding of ...