Alan Guth Quotes
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It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
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Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
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In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.
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Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.
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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
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It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.
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The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science - everything can be created from nothing. It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
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