Time

Initial Conditions

Sean Carroll and Alan Guth talk about time

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Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

By John Steele

What better way can there be to discuss the nature of time than sitting down with two eminent theoretical physicists in the timeless beauty of Vieques, at the western end of the Spanish Virgin Islands? Alan Guth, who first proposed the theory of cosmic inflation, and Sean Carroll, cosmologist and popular science…

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