Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you want to fully describe how the Universe works at a fundamental ...

We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does that really mean? Intuitively we have a sense of symmetry as a kind of mirroring. Suppose we draw a vertical line through the middle of a ...

Over the past few weeks I’ve been onsite helping some customers update their network architectures and network management strategies. During these discussions I was reminded that since many network ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the philosophy and ethics of science and technology. If you work up from first principles, much of what we ...

YOU might remember learning about symmetry at school. Maybe a teacher showed you a snowflake’s six-fold symmetry and you marvelled at how it looked the same no matter how you rotated it. Well, it ...

What is symmetry in architecture? Why is it used to design spaces? What advantages and disadvantages does it present compared to other projection tools such as rotation, translation, and/or repetition ...

My last post on my new book Constitutional Symmetry discussed how a preference for symmetry would operate in practice. It also suggested that a preference for symmetry is already an inchoate feature ...

As my last post explained, my new book, Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic, argues that judges should favor, when possible, constitutional understandings that offer valuable ...

Is there a term for the shape shown above: a smooth, continuous curve with three axes of symmetry? And if anyone could share the equation for this curve, I would be very grateful. The plate appears to ...