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Updated: 24-JAN-1993 by SIC original by Scott I. Chase Olbers' Paradox Why isn't the night sky as uniformly bright as the surface of the Sun If the Universe has infinitely many stars, then it should be. After all, if you move the Sun twice as far away from us, we will intercept one-fourth as many photons, but the Sun will subtend one-fourth of the angular area. So the areal intensity remains ...
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