Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture. He is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.
Gleiser is the author of the books The Prophet and the Astronomer (Norton & Company, 2003); The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang (Dartmouth, 2005); A Tear at the Edge of Creation (Free Press, 2010); and The Island of Knowledge (Basic Books, 2014). He is a frequent presence in TV documentaries and writes often for magazines, blogs and newspapers on various aspects of science and culture.
He has authored over 100 refereed articles, is a Fellow and General Councilor of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and the National Science Foundation.
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People associate such feelings with the release of endorphins, but one recent study proposes different body-secreted chemicals, endocannabinoids, as the trigger, says endurance runner Marcelo Gleiser.
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The essence of a constructive dialogue between faith and science is to recognize that we are all in this together — and that our perplexity at being alive is one and the same, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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If you don't look with the right eyes, you don't see how pervasive and all-encompassing math is — it even engenders debate as to whether it goes beyond human invention, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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Many people interpret the word "theory" as iffy knowledge, based on speculative thinking: It is used indiscriminately to indicate things we know and things we aren't sure about, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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Even with the amazing steps of DeepMind in the game of Go, we can still sleep in peace for now while we find safeguards that will protect us from our own inventions, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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There will always be that elusive part of reality that escapes us; it's not finding the final answer but wanting to know that makes us matter, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.
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Marcelo Gleiser visited a fourth-grade class this week — and said the kids showed him the best in humanity. "I'll go back next year and the year after. Not to teach them — but to let them teach me."
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From topics like how science may illuminate our search for meaning to the search for, and discovery of, gravitational waves, there is much to look forward to on the printed page, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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The next time you hear a scientist say something like, "The more we know about the universe, the less important we become," beg to differ: The reality is precisely the opposite, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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Given that there are trillions of worlds in our galaxy alone, circling hundreds of billions of stars, it would be a true statistical fluke if Earth were the only harbor for life, says Marcelo Gleiser.