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 ...

The MIT physicist with NJ ties has a theory called 'inflation' about how the universe began. ... Alan Guth believes he made that match more than 20 years ago. In 1979, ...

The cosmologist Alan Guth has won the 2009 Isaac Newton medal of the Institute of Physics.The American physicist was honoured for “his invention of the inflationary universe model, his recognition ...

Alan Guth's inflation theory explains the creation of the universe in a way that's compatible with the laws of physics. But where did the laws of physics come from? "One theory is that there are no ...

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.

The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this expansion was powered by a new entity in the universe, known as the inflaton.

How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, ...