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In 1981 Alan Guth wrote a paper which became an instant sensation in cosmology. He proposed that the Universe had undergone a period of exponential expansion at a very early time, somewhat less than a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. In this so-called inflationary model, the curvature of the ...
Alan Harvey Guth ( New Brunswick, 27 de fevereiro de 1947) é um físico e cosmologista estadunidense. É professor e pesquisador do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts . Guth é conhecido por ser o pai da teoria da inflação cósmica. Segundo esta teoria, o universo expandiu-se exponencialmente nos primeiros instantes após o big bang.
2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. For the invention of inflationary cosmology, and for his contributions to the theory for the generation of cosmological density fluctuations arising from quantum fluctuations in the early universe, and for his ongoing work on the problem of defining probabilities in eternally inflating spacetimes.
Mar 18, 1998 · Alan Guth is V. F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to being elected to the National Academy of Sciences and receiving many other academic awards, Newsweek has called him one of The Top 25 American Innovators,” and Science Digest has ranked him among the 100 Brightest Scientists Under 40.”
- Alan Guth
Guth is also interested in pursuing the possibility of inflation in "brane world" models, which propose that our universe is a 3+1–dimensional membrane floating in a higher dimensional space. Guth's earlier work has included the study of lattice gauge theory, magnetic monopoles and instantons, Gott time machines, and a number of other topics ...
Alan Guth was born on 27 December 1947 in New Jersey, USA. He was born to American parents of white ethnicity. He spent most of his childhood in New Jersey and also went to school there. He has been a very good student since his childhood and he showed signs of his intellect at school. He got good grades all the time and also won many ...
Alan Guth came up with a solution. He envisioned a period of “inflation,” when a small region of the universe, which was all at the same temperature, suddenly (in some tiny fraction of a second) expanded so much so fast that it became the entire observable universe (and then some). So all of the parts of the universe were in contact.
