Listen to physicist Alan Guth, father of cosmic inflation theory talk and 2014 The Kavli Prize winner talk to us about the mysteries of the universe. | Scientific American

Where does our universe come from and what was there before? Explore as Kavli Prize laureate Alan Guth explains new views on the birth of the universe. | Scientific American

Alan Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most of Alan Guth's research has centered on the application of theoretical particle physics to the early universe: what can particle physics tell us about the history of the universe, and what can cosmology tell us about the fundamental laws of nature? Watch his interview below on the vastness of the cosmos. For more inter