Quotes by Alan Guth

About Alan Guth:

Alan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe). He is currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Along with Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde, he won the 2014 Kavli Prize “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation.”
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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.

Alan Guth

Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

Alan Guth

When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Guth

Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

Alan Guth

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 wil...

Alan Guth

Author Bio

  • NameAlan Guth
  • DescriptionAmerican Cosmologist, Theoretical Physics
  • BornFebruary 27, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAstronomer; Theoretical Physicist; Cosmologist; Science Writer
  • AwardsLilienfeld Prize; Eddington Medal; Dirac Prize; Gruber Prize In Cosmology; Fundamental Physics Prize; Isaac Newton Medal; Kavli Prize In Astrophysics