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Alan Guth

Alan H. Guth (1947 - ) is a physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicabled to the early universe).

As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of inflation in 1979 at Stanford University after attending a Big Bang lecture by Robert Dicke. In 1981, Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation (or that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative vacuum energy density (positive vacuum pressure)).

Guth is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [as of 2004].

Table of contents

1 Quote 2 Publications 3 External links, references, and resources

Quote

• "It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch". — A. H. Guth

Publications

• Guth, Alan, "The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins". 1998. ISBN 0201328402

External links, references, and resources

• Alan H. Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics -- MIT homepage
• Alan Guth - "Eternal inflation: Successes and questions".

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