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Alan Guth is not a science popularizer like Carl Sagan or Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but the actual scientist who originated Inflation cosmology. This book is presented chronologically, following his and his colleagues' work through problems and dead ends, and occasionally even events from his personal life. Even though it is math-less, it conveys the conceptual trade-offs and reasoning, beyond a mere description of the resulting theory to be taken on pure faith. As an engineer with detailed knowledge
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