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Cosmology W13 - Physics Department, UCSB

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Olbers’ paradox. The night sky<br />

• What strikes you of the<br />

night sky?<br />

• It is dark!!<br />

• This apparently<br />

superficial statement<br />

(formulated by Heinrich<br />

Olbers in the early 1800s)<br />

has very profound<br />

consequences and is one<br />

of strongest pieces of<br />

evidence in favor of the<br />

big bang

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