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

Jones’s book faces the issue of string theory’s lack of experimental proof head on. He admits that there isn’t much evidence, but generally he takes Witten’s view that we need still more time to ...

But despite its extraordinary popularity among some of the smartest people on the planet, string theory hasn’t been embraced by everyone–and now, nearly 30 years after it made its initial splash, some ...

Oct. 17, Tuesday -- Our entire outlook is about to change as physicists put forward theories that our universe is just a tiny pocket in a stupendous landscape, says Leonard Susskind, professor of ...

OF ALL ideas, string theory – physicists’ candidate for a “theory of everything” – seems impossible to squeeze into a small book, even if there are extra hidden dimensions. So you have to admire ...

If you can't sleep at night worrying about gravity's ongoing conflict with the other three fundamental forces of nature, Lisa Randall may be able to help. Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard ...

Physicists typically think they “need philosophers and historians of science like birds need ornithologists,” the Nobel laureate David Gross told a roomful of philosophers, historians, and physicists ...