Anthropic reasons for nonzero flatness and Λ

Physical Review D

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Barrow, John D ^a   Sandvik, Håvard Bunes ^b   Magueijo, João ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; COSMOS; DENSITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GRAVITY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHYSICS; THEORY;

EID: 0001417136     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.123501     Document Type: Article

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