Dynamical Boson Stars
The idea of stable, localized bundles of energy has strong appeal as a model for particles. In the 1950s, John Wheeler envisioned such bundles as smooth configurations of electromagnetic energy that he called geons, but none were found. Instead, particle-like solutions were found in the late 1960s w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2012-05-01
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Series: | Living Reviews in Relativity |
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Online Access: | http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2012-6 |