In my first book, The Jazz of Physics, I make the case for the wonderful ways that concepts and research in theoretical physics parallel jazz improvisation and performance. A few critics and even ...

Cosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as we can see, but it’s also expanding at an ever-so-slowly ...

In 1981, many of the world’s leading cosmologists gathered at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, a vestige of the coupled lineages of science and theology located in an elegant villa in the gardens ...