Emergence of time

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 250, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 48-54

  Heller, Michael ^a,b   Sasin, Wiesław ^c  

^a VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

^b Warsaw University of Technology ^*  (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Noncommutative geometry; Quantum cosmology; Quantum gravity; Time

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; GRAVITATION; NUMBER THEORY;

COMPLEX VALUED FUNCTIONS; FUNDAMENTAL SYMMETRIES; GRAVITATIONAL SYSTEMS; NON-COMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY; QUANTUM COSMOLOGY; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SPACE TIME GEOMETRY; TIME;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0002986772     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00824-X     Document Type: Article

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