Multiverses and physical cosmology

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 347, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 921-936

  Ellis, G F R ^a   Kirchner, U ^a   Stoeger, W R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: general; Cosmology: theory

Indexed keywords

CHAOTICS; COSMOLOGY: GENERAL; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; GENERATING MECHANISM; TESTABILITY;

EID: 0942278861     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07261.x     Document Type: Article

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