Alan Guth believes he made that match more than 20 years ago. In 1979, the young physicist invented inflation theory, which described why the big bang happened and then what happened in the next ...

Guth's story begins in Highland Park, New Jersey, where he grew up and attended public school. "Neither of my parents went to college," he says. His father was a grocer and, after a fire destroyed ...

Alan Guth’s 1979 notebook. What inflation specifically hypothesized is that the Big Bang wasn't the beginning, but rather was set up by a prior stage of the Universe.

And at the end of the exhibit—with a note pointing out that this is still work in progress—is Alan Guth's notebook, with his original calculations and the “SPECTACULAR REALIZATION.” Like the ...

Alan Guth is a man with a tendency to laugh at himself. That's clear from the first question I ask him: How old are you? "I'm 67 years old," he says.

Buried under a mountain of papers and empty Coke Zero bottles, Alan Guth ponders the origins of the cosmos. A world-renowned theoretical physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Before Alan Guth came along, cosmologists seldom dared to guess. The Big Bang theory, based on speculations dating back to 1922 and confirmed by astronomers in the 1960s, posited that the universe ...

One researcher who has helped develop this idea is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, Alan Guth, who says that the existence of a multiverse is simply a logical extension of ...

The idea of an exponential, faster-than-light expansion of the early universe, was first put forth by MIT astrophysicist Alan Guth in 1981. And today, Inflation theory is used to explain the ...

"Inflation has been the workhorse of cosmology for 35 years, though many, including Dr. Guth, wondered whether it could ever be proved. "If corroborated, [astronomer John M.] Kovac's work will ...

Alan Guth is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate ...

Before Alan Guth came along, cosmologists seldom dared to guess. The Big Bang theory, based on speculations dating back to 1922 and confirmed by astronomers in the 1960s, posited that the universe ...