Math is the Compelled Speech of Physics: How This Limits Progress Science — the provision of natural explanation for phenomena — is one of the most reliable and benevolent institutions that humans have erected. Science is, afterall, a monument to objective understanding. If we imagine it as an actual edifice, the foundation of that building is physics. Biologists explain interactions in terms of chemicals, referring details to chemists who explain matters with atoms. But atoms reside in the...