As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of inflation in 1979 at Stanford University after attending a Big Bang lecture by Robert Dicke. In 1981, Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation (or that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative vacuum energy density (positive vacuum pressure)).

Guth is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [as of 2004].

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• "It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch". — A. H. Guth