Olbers's paradox
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title:
Olbers's paradox
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Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night paradox or Olbers and Cheseaux's paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the assumption of an infinite and eternal static universe. In the hypothetical case that the universe is static, homogeneous at a large scale, and populated by an infinite number of stars, any line of sight from Earth must end at the surface of a star and hence the night sky should be completely
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Argument in astrophysics against the theory of an unchanging universe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27s_paradox
date created:
2001-09-22T22:15:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T16:34:02Z
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