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University of California, Berkeley - FALL 2012 | ||
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The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins by Alan H. Guth, Alan Lightman Unknown, 384 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-201-32840-2 / 0201328402 ISBN-13: 978-0-201-32840-0 / 9780201328400 The classic big bang theory is great at describing what happened after the bang. Yet until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the big bang theory couldn't answer, including: What made the big bang BANG in the first place? If matter can be neither created |