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Marcelo Gleiser
Theoretical Physicist
Marcelo Gleiser is a professor of natural philosophy, physics, and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and NSF, and was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize. Gleiser has authored five books and is the co-founder of 13.8, where he writes about science and culture with physicist Adam Frank.
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Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don't fear technology but each other.
Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness.
We can reasonably say that we understand the history of the Universe within one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. That's not good enough.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.
Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
John Templeton Foundation