Alan Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation, a concept that transformed ...

Just over 40 years ago, a new theory about the early universe provided a way to tackle multiple cosmological conundrums at once. For Alan Guth, insight into the origins of the universe started in a ...

Alan Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation, a concept that transformed ...

FQxI and Closer To Truth's Robert Lawrence Kuhn (middle) interviews cosmologists Alan Guth (left) and Andrei Linde (right) during an FQxI meeting.

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