In her mind, the sky, instead of being dark, should look like this, brightness everywhere. The key to the paradox (悖论) is, if you look closely at any patch (块) of the sky, you will see shining stars. If you look through a telescope, you will see more. The nearer stars will...
the brightsky ; (Olbers') paradox in a static universe is that the thermodynamic time scale is ; much larger than the luminous lifetime of the stars, and in general this is also ; true of the static steady-state model, the expanding models, and possibly the ; expanding steadystate model...
"Why is the sky dark at night?" A seemingly naive question that has a profound answer. If the universe were : 1. Infinite and 2. Infinitely old i.e. eternal and 3. Static (all three being true together) then the night sky should be burning bright! i think Kepler used...
Introduction If you think the answer to this question is obvious, think again. The best minds of physics have studied this question for over a century, and the current answer may surprise you. In 1826, the astronomer Heinrich Olbers asked, "Why is the sky dark at night?" By his time, ...
Olbers’ Paradox: the Problem It’s not hard to understand why a great thinker like Aristotle thought the universe was finite, static, timeless, and homogenous. Like us, when he looked at the night sky he saw an evenly dispersed array of stars speckled on a black background. The stars ...
This is strange, since stars in a disk galaxy form in a narrow, gas-rich plane called the "thin disk." Indeed, our Milky Way galaxy has a thin disk, inside which we find our sun and most of the stars visible to the unaided eye in the night sky. It's the motion of these stars...
Thanks for starting this interesting discussion, Haptalaon, and thanks to Darkhawk for directing me to this thread.I'm in the very early stages of learning about Druidry and the beliefs and practices, as this is a path which really resonates with me. Please forgive me if my reflections see...
Even Jung understood the paradox of psychology and the self-improvement trap,writing: Now and then it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. In the meantime, I had learned that all ...
Sins of a Dark Age F2P game that mixes MOBA with full blown RTS mechanics. From makers of awesome Sins of a Solar Empire. Stardrive Promising indie action-strategy game where the goal is to build a space empire. Starvoid A multiplayer real time strategy game from Paradox, wrapped in the...
Earthlings are very lucky, eclipse-wise. Most planets don’t have a big enough moon to create a total solar eclipse. Not only is our moon big enough, it’s about exactly the size of the sun in our night sky because, by sheer coincidence, the sun is about 400 times farther from us ...