"Tilting" the universe with the landscape multiverse: the dark flow

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Mersini Houghton, L ^a   Holman, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 65649114716     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/006     Document Type: Article

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