Alan Guth quotes
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“The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.”
-- Alan GuthSource : "Alan Guth: What Made the Big Bang Bang" by Neil Swidey, www.bostonglobe.com. May 02, 2014.
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“The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.”
-- Alan GuthSource : "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.
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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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“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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“It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.”
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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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“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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“It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.”
Source : Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.”
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“You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.”
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