Linde, A. D.
Oral history interview with Andrei Linde, 1987 October 22.
Andrei Linde discusses his student work with D. A. Kirzhnitz at the Lebedev Physical Institute; early work on phase transitions; early work on the early universe in the early 1970s; early ideas on inflation in the late 1970s; attempts to explain the total entropy in the observable universe; reactions to Alan Guth's paper of 1981; history of the new inflationary universe model; discussions with Stephen Hawking about the new inflationary universe model in 1981; question of priority of discovery between Linde, Paul Steinhardt, and Andreas Albrecht; role of consciousness in science and the deficiency of Western science; importance of philosophy in science; influence of Indian philosophy; interest in an oscillating and eternal universe; early education and childhood interest in philosophy; philosophy as a reason for going into physics; problem with too much formalism in science and Linde's style of doing physics; meaning of the world "universe" and multiple universes; relative success of intuition in relativity and quantum theory.
(1948- ): Ph.D. in physics, Lebedev Physical Institute (1974); professor of physics at Lebedev Physical Institute; worked at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Research interests have included high-energy phase transitions involving the Higgs fields, other topics in particle physics, cosmology, and the physics of the early universe.
Guth, Alan H.
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018-
Kirzhnit s , D. A. (David Abramovich)
Linde, A. D.
Steinhardt, Paul J.
Fizicheski institut imeni P.N. Lebedeva
Inflationary universe.
Philosophy and science.
Quantum theory
Relativity (Physics)
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Lightman, Alan P., 1948-, interviewer.
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