The main reason it was dreamed up (by Alan Guth, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was to explain the extraordinary uniformity of the universe.

构想该理论(由麻省理工学院宇宙学家艾伦·古思提出)的最大原因是为了解释宇宙其令人惊奇的各向同性。

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Inflation has had its challengers since it was first proposed in the 1980s by Alan Guth of MIT and Andrei Linde of Stanford.

FORBES: Cosmic Inflation Model Gets A Boost From Planck Data

The main reason it was dreamed up (by Alan Guth, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was to explain the extraordinary uniformity of the universe.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

Some of the winners, like Edward Witten, one of the most accomplished living theorists, and Alan Guth, the father of the theory of cosmic inflation, are well-known beyond the world of physics.

ECONOMIST: The physics Nobel gets a well-endowed rival