The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problems in Physical Review D23 Issue 2, 15 January 1981, pp. 347-356 [ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. INTRODUCING CONCEPT OF 'COSMIC INFLATION'
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of Alan Guth's landmark paper introducing the concept of "cosmic inflation," a new cosmological model he called 'inflation theory'. Though just a theory for 30 years, Guth's paper "utterly transformed scientific thinking about the origin of the universe" (Focus: Landmarks, The Inflationary Universe). In March..... More