Davide Castelvecchi of Nature explores the “ambitious scientific quarry” that gravitational-wave scientists are after, including what happened in the first few moments after the Big Bang. Castelvecchi, who speaks with MIT physicist Rainer Weiss for this piece, notes that the field has already “delivered discoveries at a staggering rate, outpacing even the rosiest expectations.”
In a new study, Prof. Alan Guth shows how time might move backwards as well as forwards, reports Joshua Sokol for New Scientist. “We call it the two-headed arrow of time,” Guth says. “Because the laws of physics are invariant, we see exactly the same thing in the other direction.”
Prof. Alan Guth speaks with Christina Couch of Science Friday about his career and the cosmos. Of what inspired him to pursue a career in science, Guth recalls conducting experiments with a friend and being “very excited about the idea that we can really calculate things, and they actually do reflect the way the real world works.”
Asma Khalid profiles Professor Alan Guth for WBUR's “Visionaries” series, which features experts in a variety of fields. Guth reminisces about how a high school teacher fostered his interest in physics, his time as a student at MIT and his development of the theory behind why the universe expanded so quickly after the Big Bang.
Dan Vergano of National Geographic profiles Professor Alan Guth’s career in 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," Guth explains.
Bruce Dorminey writes for Forbes about how scientists are looking to close a quantum physics loophole. “We wanted to come up with a potential test that could close one of the last major remaining quantum physics loopholes that could still allow entangled particle experiments to be interpreted according to classical physics,” explains MIT postdoc Andrew Friedman.
“The prize for astrophysics goes to Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Andrei Linde of Stanford University, and Alexei Starobinsky of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow,” writes Malcolm Ritter for The Associated Press about this year’s Kavli recipients.
Professor Alan Guth has been awarded the prestigious Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, reports Carolyn Johnson of The Boston Globe. Guth received the award for his work on the theory of cosmic inflation.
Neil Swidey profiles Professor Alan Guth and his work developing the theory of cosmic inflation in a piece for The Boston Globe Magazine. “Perhaps you went to school with someone like Alan Guth, a child so preternaturally gifted that the teachers didn’t know what to do with him,” Swidey writes.
Professor Max Tegmark writes for The New York Times about recent research that appears to support the theory of cosmic inflation, and the implications of this discovery for the study of physics and the origins of the universe.
Professor Alan Guth discusses new research that supports his 1980 theory of cosmic inflation with John Lauerman of Bloomberg News.
“Most inflationary models, almost all, predict that inflation should become eternal,” said Professor Alan Guth in an article published by Salon. New research has found evidence to support the theory of inflation, which Guth hypothesized in 1980.
New Scientist reporter Stuart Clark explores the origins of the theory of cosmic inflation, which explains the rapid expansion of the universe. Clark explains that while MIT Professor Alan Guth is widely credited as the father of inflation, his work sparked widespread interest and a plethora of different theories about how the universe could have expanded.
The New York Times’ Dennis Overbye explores Professor Alan Guth’s theory of inflation in the wake of the discovery of gravitational waves from the seconds after the Big Bang occurred. The discovery appears to confirm Guth’s findings.
The Guardian explores the theory of cosmic inflation, pioneered by MIT Professor Alan Guth in 1979. This week, scientists announced that they had spotted gravitational waves from the seconds after the formation of the Universe. The findings appear to confirm Guth’s seminal work.