The beginning of the end of the anthropic principle

New Astronomy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-53

  Kane, Gordon L ^a   Perry, Malcolm J ^b   Zytkow, Anna N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: miscellaneous; Early universe; Elementary particles; Gravitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244438078     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1384-1076(01)00088-4     Document Type: Article

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