The large number coincidence, the cosmic coincidence and the critical acceleration

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 462, Issue 2076, 2006, Pages 3657-3661

  Funkhouser, Scott ^a,b  

^a The Claremont Colleges   (United States)

^b THE CITADEL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Holographic conjecture; Large number coincidence; Particle physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947207827     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1748     Document Type: Article

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