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 Read Quote
From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that’s not enough in science to succeed, really. Alan Guth Read Quote
It was sort of assumed, from the time I was born, really, that I would go to college. That’s sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm. Alan Guth Read Quote
Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory. Alan Guth Read Quote
My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college. Alan Guth Read Quote
From a theoretical point of view, it is very hard to imagine how gravity could avoid being quantized. Alan Guth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged. Alan Guth Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy. Alan Guth Read Quote
