What's the trouble with anthropic reasoning?

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 878, Issue , 2006, Pages 323-329

  Trotta, Roberto ^a   Starkman, Glenn D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropic principle; Cosmological constant; Selection effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847032157     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2409104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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