Darker Side of the Universe ⋯ and the crying need for some bright ideas!

29th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2005

Volumn 10, Issue , 2005, Pages 47-62

  Padmanabhan, T ^a  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS;

ACCELERATED EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS; DARK ENERGY; ENERGY DENSITY; NEGATIVE PRESSURES;

COSMOLOGY;

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