Olbers' uproar
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An optical solution of Olbers’ paradox
Shown is that contrary to common intuition, even an arbitrarily weak attenuating mechanism is sufficient to make the background sky quite dark independently of the size of the universe and the Hubble expansion. Further shown is that such an attenuation already exists in the wave nature of light due to entrapment and diffusion from successive diffractions. This is a fundamentally new mechanism t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/384029a0