The Inflationary Universe

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"A compelling account oe one oe the greatest
cosmological ideas oe
the century, recounted by the very person who developed it." —^Rocky Kolb, author of Blind Watchers of the Sky
The classic big bang theory is great at describing what happened after the bang. Yet until recendy, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the big bang theory couldn't answer, including: What made the big bang BANG in the first place? If matter can be neither created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise firom nothing at all? Why can we only see a minute part of the mega-universe?
In 1979, a young particle physicist named Alan Guth answered these questions and made frontpage news with one of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology: cosmic inflation. This is the compelling,... Tovább

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"A compelling account oe one oe the greatest
cosmological ideas oe
the century, recounted by the very person who developed it." —^Rocky Kolb, author of Blind Watchers of the Sky
The classic big bang theory is great at describing what happened after the bang. Yet until recendy, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the big bang theory couldn't answer, including: What made the big bang BANG in the first place? If matter can be neither created nor destroyed, how could so much matter arise firom nothing at all? Why can we only see a minute part of the mega-universe?
In 1979, a young particle physicist named Alan Guth answered these questions and made frontpage news with one of the greatest discoveries in modern cosmology: cosmic inflation. This is the compelling, first-hand account of Guth's para-digm-breaking discovery of the origins of the universe; and it is a fascinating chronicle of his dramatic struggle to justify it.
From a young researcher who couldn't land a permanent job to becoming a physics superstar, Guth's story is part scientific detective story and part autobiography. Although many of his scientific peers immediately sought to disprove the inflation theory, Guth also drew the attention of such noted figures as Stephen Hawking and Andrei D. Linde, and spent his time researching and refining his ideas. It wasn't until 1992, however, when the space probe COBE brought stun- Vissza