OLBERS'S PARADOX


Meaning of OLBERS'S PARADOX in English

Paradox of why the sky is dark at night.

If the universe is endless and uniformly populated with luminous stars, every line of sight must end at the surface of a star and the night sky should be bright with no dark spaces between stars. This paradox is widely attributed to Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758–1840), who discussed it in 1823, though redshift ).

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