Alan Guth
Alan Guth
Alan Harvey Guthis an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory. He is currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Along with Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde, he won the 2014 Kavli Prize “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation.”...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth27 February 1947
CountryUnited States of America
safe basements universe
It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.
average space complicated
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
thinking ideas done
It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.
bangs bigs theory
The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
lunch matter range
The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science -- everything can be created from nothing...it is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
lunch may development
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
thinking space substance
In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.
names aftermath bangs
Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.