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1.What is the most interesting thing you have learned from this book? Alan Guth’s book takes you through the journey of his life, and his career in which he made many scientific discoveries. I especially liked the way that he maps out these discoveries because it was fun to discover along with him. Throughout Guth’s life he has been putting together the pieces of a giant puzzle. The concept that I found to …

…was the creation of monopoles and how they were destroyed. How he went about this was to estimate the density of monopoles when the Universe started. He estimated equal to the number of photons that were present. (This information is given in the Standard Big Bang theory.) This estimation was not likely, based on the fact that if there were that many monopoles, then they would still be abundant today and we could see them.