Inflationary cosmology: Exploring the universe from the smallest to the largest scales

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5711, 2005, Pages 884-890

  Guth, Alan H ^a   Kaiser, David I ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GRAVITATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

ASTRONOMICAL MEASUREMENT; INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY; SPACETIME; UNIVERSE;

COSMIC RAYS;

COSMOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GRAVITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY; REVIEW; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 13644250182     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107483     Document Type: Review

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