Crisis in Cosmology: Proceedings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0735402965

Crisis in cosmology; proceedings.

Crisis in Cosmology conference, CCC-1 (1st: 2005: Moncoa, Portugal) Ed. by Eric J. Lerner and Jose B. Almeida.

American Institute of Physics

2006

317 pages

$90.00

Paperback

AIP conference proceedings; v.822

QB843

Twenty-eight papers from the June 2005 conference report on observations that challenge the dominant cosmological...

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