The constancy of the constants of nature: Updates

Progress of Theoretical Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 993-1019

  Chiba, Takeshi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84255191771     PISSN: 0033068X     EISSN: 13474081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/PTP.126.993     Document Type: Article

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