Do you like the first name Blas? (p 173)

Why was he trying so hard to find monopoles? (p 174)

What is a GUT? (p 174)

What theory did Alan Guth come up with? (p 174)

What three major issues does it help to explain? (p 174,5)

How common did Guth estimate that monopoles should be? (p178,9)

How did he predict the number of monopoles? (p 179*) 

What does the theory of inflation say happened 10^-35 seconds after the BB? (p 180)

When did the period of inflation end? (p 180)

How did this expansion compare to all the expansion in the billions of years since then? (p 180)

How does this explain why the background radiation is so uniform? (p 180)

What does inflation predict about the number of monopoles? (p 182)

What does inflation predict about the universe’ rotation? (p 182)

What does inflation predict about the flatness of the universe? (p 182)

How does inflation explain the large scale structure of the Universe? (p 187)

What triggered the inflation era? (p 188)

What stopped inflation? (p 189)

What does inflation imply about the total energy of the universe? (p 189)

What is the anthropic principle, and why is it "narcissistic?" (p 190, 1)