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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
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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
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If you consider the universe one second after the Big Bang, the expansion rate would have to have been just right to an accuracy of 15 decimal places, or else the universe would really not work. - Alan Guth
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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
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My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college. - Alan Guth
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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
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I do worry about the fact that science is becoming a slower process as society is becoming less patient. - Alan Guth
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I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came. - Alan Guth
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Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory. - Alan Guth
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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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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
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It's not a coincidence that the Bible starts with Genesis. Most people really want to know where we came from and where everything around us came from. I like to strongly push the scientific answer. We have evidence. We no longer have to rely on stories we were told when we were young. - Alan Guth
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I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that. - Alan Guth
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If there's no limit to how big the entropy can get, then you can start anywhere, and from that starting point, you'd expect entropy to rise as the system moves to explore larger and larger regions of phase space. - Alan Guth
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Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know. - Alan Guth
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I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can't imagine how such a theory might work. - 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
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