ESSAYS
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in Zygon, December 2025.
Reality Is Not a Simulation and Why It Matters
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in IAI News, January 4, 2023.
COVID-19 Will Change Us as a Species
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in CNN, March 26, 2020.
How Much Can We Know?
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in Nature
May 9, 2018.
We Have Pushed Physics Too Far
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in Nautilus, January 2017.
A Crisis at the Edge of Physics
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in The New York Times, June 7, 2015.
The Mystery Is Out There
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in KidSpirit Online, October 14, 2014.
Emergent Spatiotemporal Complexity in Field Theory
Essay written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in Complexity and the Arrow of Time, edited by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
We Are Unique
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in the book This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Book 11), edited by John Brockman, 2012.
Empirical Incompleteness and the Search for a Theory of Everything
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in Physics Today, September 2010. DOI: 10.1063/1.3490512.
The Imperfect Universe: Goodbye, Theory of Everything
Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in New Scientist, May 10, 2010.
Can Our Knowledge of Nature Ever Be Complete?
"Can our knowledge of Nature ever be complete?". Article written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in The New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, April 16, 2010.
Science and Religion Face the Beyond
Written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in the book Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel, edited by Daniel Burstein and Arne de Keijzer, HarperCollins, 2010.
Unification and the Limits of Knowledge
Essay written by Marcelo Gleiser for the contest "What is Ultimately Possible in Physics?”, FQXi (Fourth Prize), 2009.
To Unify or Not to Unify?
January 2009
- What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink EverythingThe War Between Science and Religion Will See New Light
October 2007
- What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting BetterIt's OK Not to Know Everything
Essay written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in the book What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, Volume 4 de Edge Question Series, 2007.
Einstein’s Tie
Essay written by Marcelo Gleiser. Originally published in My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy, John Brockman, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.