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FW: Simple Question
I think there are a significant number of potential answers to Olbers'
Paradox, but Geoff's Simple Question ignores them all in his legitimate quest for scientific simplicity. For example, if anything would impede our ability to perceive the infinite nature of the Universe, thereby making it appear to be finite in spite of its infinite nature, that resolves the Paradox. I came to that particular solution in exploring whether we might be living in the interior region of an inverted black hole. Similarly, if the net infinite light energy streams past us such that there is a finite time before and after which we see it, there should be no bright sky problem. I still like my "white hole" hypothesis, because it seems to explain many other things and results in an easily explained Universe, but Olbers' Paradox would be solved by any other solution in which the observable universe is finite in time or space. But, that said, it would seem to be an unusual "infinite and uniform" (Condition #1) Universe in which there was a "roughly uniform finite energy density." If I understand this correctly, you'd posit a location within infinity in which a finite amount of energy can be located. But, that would seem to mean that the Universe cannot be uniform. -- Richard ---------- Ray Tomes wrote: if an infinite non-expanding universe had a roughly uniform finite energy density at one point in time, it would be rather surprising if it came to have an infinite energy density at some future time. Therefore Olbers Paradox tells us next to nothing about the real universe except that somewhere in it someone did the sums wrong. :-) |
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