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In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

~Alan Guth

Topics: About Almost Bend Best Best Way Big Context General Imagine Just Just Kind Kind Piece Pull Relativity Rubber Space Stretch Substance Think Twist Way You

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Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

~Alan Guth

Topics: Average Average Person Background Certainly Complicated Empty Happen Just More Person Realize Something Space Than Things Things Happen Which Would

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Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.

~Alan Guth

Topics: Believe Confess Know Most Now Physicists Should Space Think Ultimately I Think

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Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

~Alan Guth

Topics: Best Describing Fundamental Level Our Space String String Theory Theory

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When one studies the properties of atoms, one found that the reality is far stranger than anybody would have invented in the form of fiction. Particles really do have the possibility of, in some sense, being in more than one place at one time.

~Alan Guth

Topics: Anybody Atoms Being Far Fiction Form Found Invented More One Time Particles Place Possibility Properties Reality Really Sense Some Stranger Studies Than Time Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: February 27th, 1947

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