Alan Guth was known as the “inventor” of the theory of cosmic inflation, which was able to explain some of the lingering questions about cosmological development that the original big-bang model had left open. Guth’s book “The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins” (1997), written for a general audience, discusses the theory.

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