Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

But new research suggests that it may have been possible to inflate the universe without anything new powering that inflation. In the 1970s, physicist Alan Guth concocted a radical picture of the ...

The theory was first proposed by physicist Alan Guth in the 1980s ... and the co-inventor of an inflation model of the universe based on string theory. As another concept that doesn’t invoke ...

Spurred by the success of quantum chromodynamics and electroweak theory in describing ... monopole problem' that led Alan Guth to postulate the inflationary Universe — one that had undergone ...

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In 1980 Alan Guth ... an instant of “inflation”—before settling into more measured growth. Inflation would have helped smooth out the matter and energy in the universe and flattened its ...