Alan Guth Quotes

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Alan Guth

Profession : Physicist

Birth : February 27, 1947

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

Alan Guth

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

Alan Guth

If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?

Alan Guth

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

Alan Guth

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

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

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

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

From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized.

Alan Guth