Michael Gassman sits in a stiff chair in a lecture room, like a member of a congregation, waiting for a god to plug in. Mr. Gassman -- a guitar player, like the dozens of people around him -- watches ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...