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  1. Olbers's paradox - Wikipedia

    • 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 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 b… See more

    History

    The first one to address the problem of an infinite number of stars and the resulting heat in the Cosmos was See more

    The paradox

    The paradox is that a static, infinitely old universe with an infinite number of stars distributed in an infinitely large space would be bright rather than dark.
    To show this, we divide the universe into a series of co… See more

    Explanation

    The poet Edgar Allan Poe suggested in Eureka: A Prose Poem that the finite age of the observable universe resolves the apparent paradox. More specifically, because the universe is finitely old (more precisely the … See more

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