Olbers' Paradox

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4895. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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A paradox relating to the darkness of the night sky that was discussed by Heinrich Olbers (1758-1840) in 1826, but which had been noted previously by other scientists. Essentially the problem is that if the universe were infinite, static and uniformly populated with stars, the whole of the night sky should be as bright as the surface of a star (no matter in what direction one looked, eventually o...

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