Alan Guth Quotes

born 1947 United States

Alan Harvey Guth (born 27 February 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe).

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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

It becomes very tempting to ask whether, in principle, it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory—or a universe in your backyard—by man-made processes.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Inflation is a prequel to the conventional Big Bang theory. ...It does provide a theory of the propulsion that drove the universe into this humungous episode of expansion which we call the Big Bang.

The Early Universe (2012)

In short what I like to say is that the Big Bang says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. It really has no bang in the Big Bang. It is a bangless theory, despite its name.

The Early Universe (2012)

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.

The Inflationary Universe : The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (1998)

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