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Old July 8th 03, 02:54 PM
Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply
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Default FW: Simple Question

In article , Jonathan
Silverlight writes:

Talking about infinities is a sure way to lead to mistakes, and I'm
probably going to make one, but why should the light be infinite? Won't
it be the same as the surface of a star over the whole sky?


BTW, Charlier's cosmology apparently leads to an infinite static
universe which does not suffer Olber's paradox.


I REALLY recommend the corresponding chapter in Edward Harrison's
COSMOLOGY textbook to all interested in Olbers's paradox.

@BOOK {EHarrison81a,
AUTHOR = "E. R. Harrison",
TITLE = "Cosmology, the science of the universe",
PUBLISHER = "Cambridge University Press",
YEAR = "1981",
ADDRESS = "Cambridge"
}