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New Theories / Re: Olber's Paradox
« on: 06/04/2024 11:56:08 »Olber′s paradox states that the sky is not uniformly bright although it contains, to all intents and purposes, an infinite number of stars.No.
It does more or less the opposite.
Here's what WIKI says
"Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night 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. "
Olber was clever enough to recognise the importance of the most commonplace observation; it gets dark at night.
That tells you that either the universe is not infinite in physical extent or it's not infinitely old or we live in a very weird bit of it- the only bit with stars.
Other observations say that the resolution of the "paradox" is that the universe is finite in age- about 14 billion years.