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Re: Old Stars/Olber's Paradox



Hi all-
This clever lawyer votes for Bowman's mechanism (3):
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3) The universe is expanding--causing the light from the most distant sources
to be red-shifted away to ever lower (& dimmer) photon energies.
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because the sky is obviously not "dark"; it is in fact quite "bright",
as a couple of guys from Bell Labs discovered, but at a temperature of
about 2.7 degrees K (black body). I would, however, modify the
statement by excising the words "(& dimmer)".
Regards,
Jack
"These several facts prove nothing, for one cannot deduce a principle from so
few examples, but they do at least indicate that the ability to learn to spell
correctly is a gift; that it is born in a person, and that it is a sign of
intellectual inferiority. By parity of reasoning, its absence is a sign of
great mental power."
Mark Twain, "Extract from Eve's Diary'.