Anthropic arguments and the cosmological constant, with and without the assumption of typicality

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Maor, Irit ^a   Krauss, Lawrence ^a   Starkman, Glenn ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE RESEARCH;

ANTHROPIC ARGUMENTS; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 38749127572     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.041301     Document Type: Article

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