What happened before the Big Bang?

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 523-525

  Bojowald, Martin ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION;

BIG BANG; EXPLICIT MODELING; ISOTROPIC MODELS; LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY; QUANTUM EVOLUTION; QUANTUM STATE; SPACE TIME;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 34547692568     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys654     Document Type: Article

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