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Cesar Flores cflores
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2008
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Physics
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The role of disorder on wave propagation through the universe is studied. Assuming space fluctuations of the order of the Planck length and the size of the universe as the corresponding localization length for the background radiation, we obtain the exponent (close to unity) in the power law relationship between these quantities. This suggests that the role of Anderson localization is not negligible at cosmological scales.
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