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 ...

It was trying to solve the 'monopole problem' that led Alan Guth to postulate the inflationary Universe — one that had undergone a brief period of exponential expansion a fraction of a second ...

by the American physicist Alan Guth, who coined the name. Inflation makes the universe large and uniform, according to observations. It also forces the universe to be spatially flat, which is an ...

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 ...