A strong astrophysical constraint on the violation of special relativity by quantum gravity

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6952, 2003, Pages 1019-1021

  Jacobson, T ^a   Liberati, S ^a   Mattingly, D ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM GRAVITY;

GRAVITATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRON; GRAVITY; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION; SPACE; TIME; VELOCITY;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0041864020     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01882     Document Type: Article

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