Olber's paradox is OBSOLETE
Olber's 'night sky' paradox is one of the arguments that big bang pseudo-scientists use to conclude that the universe is not infinite and static.
The paradox states that, 'if the universe is endless and uniformly populated with luminous stars, then every line of sight must eventually terminate at the surface of a star. Hence, contrary to observation, this argument implies that the night sky should everywhere be bright, with no dark spaces between the stars. This paradox was discussed in 1823 by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers'. (Britannica)
The paradox is based on observations dating from 19th century where the 'observable universe' was limited to the Milky Way galaxy (which is indeed finite), and on the assumption that the universe is 'uniformly populated with stars', which is a false assumption.
We know for more than a century that the universe is NOT uniformly populated with stars, and that stars are grouped into galaxies which are at billion light years apart ! Why is this paradox even taken into consideration, since its based on a false assumption ?
Olber could only see the stars from our galaxy on the night sky, the stars from other galaxies were too far and too small to see with Olber's telescope which could not see any star outside our galaxy's. But as telescopes evolved and got more powerful like Hubble telescope, they revealed that what Olbers thought it was a dark sky, it isnt a dark sky at all ! And that there is actually an astronomical number of galaxies and stars in the 'dark spaces between stars' where Olber's telescope could not see any star or galaxy.
So this is an obsolete paradox, based on astronomy from the early 19th century, when galaxies were not even discovered, and they were confused with stars ! Because telescopes were too weak and could not see any stars outside of our own galaxy. Hubble deep field telescope has shown that the dark space between stars is not dark at all, and that when you zoom at a patch of 'dark sky', you are blinded by the sheer number of galaxies and their stars.
Olber did not even know what a galaxy is, not to mention how many there are in the dark space between stars. Because his telescope was crap and could not see that far.
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