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Old 20-November-2007, 08:20 AM
Coldcreation Coldcreation is offline
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Default Olbers paradox irrelevant

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Originally Posted by Ari Jokimaki View Post
Well yes, sorry, my explanation wasn't clear. I didn't intend to explain whole Olbers' paradox by the blocks, but just the part why we don't receive infinite amount of energy. It's true that we need more than blocks to reduce the received energy to the observed amount.
Note: Olbers paradox would only apply in a Euclidean universe.

So, OP does not contradict the concept of an infinite non-expanding universe if the spacetime continuum is non-Euclidean. And we know from the GR field equations (as well as through empirical evidence of, say, SNe Ia data) that the manifold is nonlinear (from an observers perspective).

Thus, OP is an irrelevant argument against the static, infinite universe model.


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Last edited by Coldcreation; 21-November-2007 at 10:19 PM.. Reason: typo