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Andrei Dmitrievich Linde (Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist, known as a pioneer of inflationary cosmology.

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The first, and main, problem is the very existence of the big bang.

Many scientists are still ashamed of using the anthropic principle. Just as the friends of Harry Potter were afraid of using the name 'Voldemort', the opponents of the anthropic principle often say that they do not want to use the 'A' in their research.

One may wonder, What came before? If space-time did not exist then, how could everything appear from nothing? . . . Explaining this initial singularity—where and when it all began—still remains the most intractable problem of modern cosmology.

... We live for a while in some state which is called false vacuum ... there is no preferable coordinate system ... there is no preferable choice of time ...

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Andrei Linde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.