Inferences from the dark sky: Olbers' paradox revisited
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The classical formulation of "Olbers' Paradox" consists in looking for an explanation of the fact that the sky at night is dark. We use the experimental datum of the nocturnal darkness in order to put constraints on a Newtonian cosmological model. We infer then that the Universe, in such a model, should have had an origin at a finite time in the past.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0007428,
title = {Inferences from the dark sky: Olbers' paradox revisited},
author = {Mauro Arpino and Fabio Scardigli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0007428},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTex file, 10 pages, no figures. Some minor errors corrected, and some references added