A review by david_reads_books
The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth

5.0

The universe went through a seemingly illegal brief expansion near the 10^-35 second where it went from size=almost nothing, to size=beach ball. But it did this faster than the speed of light as we know it. But this quick spreading out of matter at the very beginning now allows us to look at stars to our left that are 10+ billion light years away, and stars to our right at 10+ billion light years away, and they look the same! Inflation explain the homogeneity of our universe, and other things too. One of the greatest physicists to not (yet) win a Nobel Prize.