Surface tension and the cosmological constant

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Samuel, Joseph ^a   Sinha, Supurna ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SURFACE TENSION;

COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; FLUID MEMBRANE; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM GRAVITY MODELS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33750172607     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.161302     Document Type: Article

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