Olbers' Paradox

However, the weakening is not sufficient to actually explain Olbers' paradox.

This approach also resolves the notorious problem of why the night sky is so dark, or Olbers' paradox.

Yet that speculation became "Olbers' paradox," which has come to have profound significance a century after- ward.

This problem became known as Olbers' paradox.

This seemed to dispose of Olbers' paradox.

By the time the universe is static the sky will be uniformly star-brigbt as Olbers' paradox required.

In this section, Olbers' paradox is discussed.

Somewhere in the Olbers' paradox there is some mitigating circumstance or some logical error.

But that doesn't wipe out Olbers' paradox.

In the twentieth century Olbers' paradox came back to life, for it came to be appreciated that there were indeed stars outside the Galaxy.

In a static or, worse still, a contracting universe there could, by Olbers' paradox, be no cold bodies, no solid bodies.

Olbers' paradox shows that an infinite universe with a uniform distribution of stars necessarily leads to a sky that is as bright as a star.

Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers.

He was an early proponent of a theory in the context of solving Olbers' paradox (1922) that would later be called the "tired-light hypothesis" of cosmology.

Chéseaux was among the first to state, in its modern form, what would later be known as Olbers' paradox (that, if the universe is infinite, the night sky should be bright).

This contradiction is known as Olbers' paradox, named after the 19th-century German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, who posed the question in 1823.

Olbers' paradox, described by him in 1823 (and then reformulated in 1826), states that the darkness of the night sky conflicts with the supposition of an infinite and eternal static universe.

He offered in 1974 a new explanation of Olbers' paradox (the "dark night sky" riddle), demonstrating the consequences of fractal theory as a sufficient, but not necessary, resolution of the paradox.

The Steady State model proposed that this radiation could be accounted for by so-called "integrated starlight" which was a background caused in part by Olbers' paradox in an infinite universe.

Recognizing the cosmological importance of the darkness of the night sky (Olbers' paradox) and the first speculations on an extragalactic background light dates back to the first half of the 19th century.

Chapter 2 discusses the transition into night, including sunsets, the green flash, the stages of twilight, as well as Olbers' paradox, and a definition of the size and speed of night.

In fact, we can begin with Olbers' paradox and end with the conclusion that the only reason life exists any- where in the universe is that the distant galaxies are reced- ing from us.

There are indeed dust clouds in space but if they absorbed all the starlight that fell upon them (by the reasoning of Olbers' paradox) then their temperature would go up until they grew hot enough to be luminous.

Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay written in 1848, included a cosmological theory that presaged the Big Bang theory by 80 years, as well as the first plausible solution to Olbers' paradox.

In fact, now that we know the ins and outs of Olbers' paradox, might we, do you suppose, be able to work out the recession of the distant galaxies as a necessary conse- quence of the blackness of the night sky?