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9 - The Observer Strikes Back

from Part III - Foundations of Cosmology: Gravity and the Quantum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2017

By
James Hartle  and
Thomas Hertog
Edited by
Khalil Chamcham ,
Joseph Silk ,
John D. Barrow  and
Simon Saunders
James Hartle
Affiliation:
University of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Thomas Hertog
Affiliation:
Leuven University, Belgium
Khalil Chamcham
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Joseph Silk
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
John D. Barrow
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Simon Saunders
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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The Philosophy of Cosmology , pp. 181 - 205
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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