Hello there. I will be talking about Olbers’ Paradox.
In the year 1826, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers’ proposed a controversial question about what makes the night sky dark if the universe contains an infinite number of bright stars (Newton 1). This question fascinates me because every celestial object that can be observed with our eyes, should have an important reason and role to play. The paradox about the night sky was also argued by Kepler as stated in his “Conversations with the Starry Messenger” and suggests the night sky should light up brightly since the universe was infinite itself with stars scattered in every part of space (Newton 3). Hence, our eyes should meet a star in every dimension given the notion of an infinite universe with an infinite number of stars (Arpino and Scardigli 1). There have been numerous explanations to Olbers’ Paradox. In the book Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe published by the Harvard University Press in 1987, Edward Harrison explained how expansion in the Universe is a factor to reasoning the appearance of dark sky (Harrison). Dr. Seth, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Utah goes on further with the notion to say that in an expanding universe, the intensity of light from …show more content…
Thank you.
Works Cited:
Newton, David. “Olbers’ Paradox A Review of Resolutions to This Paradox.” Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, pp. 1–3. http://web.williams.edu/Astronomy/Course-Pages/419T/olbers.pdf. Accessed 28 Jan. 2017.
Arpino, Mauro, and Fabio Scardigli. “Inferences from the Dark Sky: Olbers’ Paradox Revisited.” Cornell University Library (2002), pp. 1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0007428.pdf. Accessed 28 Jan. 2017.
Harrison, Edward. “Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe.” Harvard University Press (2002), http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers.html Accessed 08 Mar.
In the year 1826, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers’ proposed a controversial question about what makes the night sky dark if the universe contains an infinite number of bright stars (Newton 1). This question fascinates me because every celestial object that can be observed with our eyes, should have an important reason and role to play. The paradox about the night sky was also argued by Kepler as stated in his “Conversations with the Starry Messenger” and suggests the night sky should light up brightly since the universe was infinite itself with stars scattered in every part of space (Newton 3). Hence, our eyes should meet a star in every dimension given the notion of an infinite universe with an infinite number of stars (Arpino and Scardigli 1). There have been numerous explanations to Olbers’ Paradox. In the book Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe published by the Harvard University Press in 1987, Edward Harrison explained how expansion in the Universe is a factor to reasoning the appearance of dark sky (Harrison). Dr. Seth, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Utah goes on further with the notion to say that in an expanding universe, the intensity of light from …show more content…
Thank you.
Works Cited:
Newton, David. “Olbers’ Paradox A Review of Resolutions to This Paradox.” Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, pp. 1–3. http://web.williams.edu/Astronomy/Course-Pages/419T/olbers.pdf. Accessed 28 Jan. 2017.
Arpino, Mauro, and Fabio Scardigli. “Inferences from the Dark Sky: Olbers’ Paradox Revisited.” Cornell University Library (2002), pp. 1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0007428.pdf. Accessed 28 Jan. 2017.
Harrison, Edward. “Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe.” Harvard University Press (2002), http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers.html Accessed 08 Mar.