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For more about Professor Guth’s work, listen to this interview from WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio news station. You may also be interested in this MIT Alumni Association Podcast Inflationary Cosmology—Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? with Professor Guth. Show less
The Inflationary Universe by Alan H. Guth (1998). Alan H. Guth is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at MIT. Most of Professor Guth's research has centered on the application of theoretical particle physics to the early universe: What can particle physics tell us about the history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about ...
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 proposes cosmic inflation. To improve on the big bang theory, in 1980 astrophysicist Alan Guth of MIT, Andrei Linde of Stanford University and Alexei Starobinsky of the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow developed the theory of cosmic inflation, for which they received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in 2014.
Alan Guth‘s foundational work on inflationary cosmology has led him to focus on basic questions about the physics of the multiverse that arises naturally in the context of the many string theory vacua, and which provides the only current natural explanation for the observed small but positive cosmological constant. False vacuum bubble.
Jan 7, 2016 · Buried under a mountain of papers and empty Coke Zero bottles, Alan Guth ponders the origins of the cosmos. A world-renowned theoretical physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Guth is best known for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation, a model that explains the exponential growth of the universe mere fractions of a second after the Big Bang, and its ...
Alan Guth is a native of New Jersey, born in New Brunswick in 1947. He skipped his senior year of high school to begin studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the SB and SM in physics in 1969 and a PhD in 1972, with a thesis under Francis Low on how quarks might combine to produce the particles we actually observe.