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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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What would become the Big Bang model started from a crucial idea: that the young Universe was denser and hotter.
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
Einstein called his idea "abominable," but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.