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Alan Guth

American Physicist

Born: Feb 27, 1947

Big Science Space Think Universe You

Related authors: Brian Greene Edward Teller Freeman Dyson J. Robert Oppenheimer Lawrence M. Krauss Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Richard P. Feynman

It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of nothing, and how over the course of 15 billion years, matter could organize in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting here, talking, doing things intentionally. Alan Guth

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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. Alan Guth

Big Before Nothing Says About Big Bang Bang Happened Theory Why

If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy. Alan Guth

Universe Assume State Possible Entropy Maximum Any Low Then

To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing of ink on paper, followed by throwing away the paper and depositing new ink on more paper - can actually tell us something about reality. Alan Guth

Reality Joy Paper Tell See Followed About Something More Physicist Throwing New Calculation Call Greater Than Curious Us Theoretical Activity Away Ink Actually

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

Complicated Space Background Would Something More Empty Than Person Just Happen Which Average Realize Average Person Certainly Things Things Happen

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

Space Believe Think Physicists Know Most Ultimately Confess Should Now

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

Best Space Our String String Theory Theory Describing Fundamental Level

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college. Alan Guth

Science College Parents Neither Fact Involved Were In Fact Them

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came. Alan Guth

People Brilliant Considered Had MIT Came Where Place

In high school, I was the best broad jumper on our team, and I kind of thought that when I got to MIT, I'd probably still be the best broad jumper, 'cause why do broad jumpers come to MIT? But it turned out to actually be the other way around. There was another person in my class who could jump about 3 feet further than I could. Alan Guth

Best Class School Cause Thought Other Broad Our Way Further Out Kind High High School About Could Feet Come Another Around Got Still MIT Jump Than Person Turned Team Who Why Actually

If you bang two electrons together with enough energy, you produce protons. If there are no independent laws, then all the properties of protons must somehow be 'known' by the electrons. By extension, every elementary particle must carry around enough information to produce the entire universe. I find that difficult to believe. Alan Guth

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It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm. Alan Guth

Time College Assumed Way Would Born New Sort New Jersey Go Norm Families Handled Really Jersey Things Jewish

I'm pretty slow at writing papers. Alan Guth

Writing Slow Papers Pretty

Reformed Jews don't have to quite believe in God. Alan Guth

God Believe Jews Reformed Quite

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