Spacetime foam: From entropy and holography to infinite statistics and nonlocality

Entropy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 441-461

  Ng, Y Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark energy; Holography; Infinite statistics; Non locality; Quantum foam; Spacetime foam

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149126505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e10040441     Document Type: Article

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