“The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.”

—  Alan Guth

Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt, The inflationary universe, edited by [Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0-521-43831-4, 54]

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