Probing spacetime foam with extragalactic sources

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Christiansen, W A ^a   Ng, Y Jack ^a   Van Dam, H ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; GALAXIES; INTERFEROMETERS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEXTURES;

HALO STRUCTURES; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS; QUASARS; SPACETIME;

FOAMS;

EID: 33144458459     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.051301     Document Type: Article

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