Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Olber's Paradox



Phenomena studied in depth throughout the universe reveals the presence of scattering materials difficult to detect, apparently unnoticed, usually bearing the name "diffuse field". Different aspects, starting with interstellar absorption of light, fully demonstrates the various forms in which this matter is presented. The fact that matter exists in reality serve as interplanetary space, interstellar and intergalactic those are not empty, repeatedly passed unnoticed.


William Herschel, in his research assumed that attenuates starlight is exactly inversely proportional to square of the distance. In other words, he believed that interstellar space is perfectly transparent, as there are phenomena of light absorption, in any form. In the same period in 1774, a researcher with much less known about theoretical got to suspect the existence of the phenomenon of light absorption. He believes that space is filled with a "fluid" able to mitigate the weak light. In the absence of a sink in interstellar space, a simple reasoning leads him in his research on theoretical Chaizot contradiction. This reasoning was later developed by Mathias W. Olbers (1758 - 1840) in his famous paradox. By 1823, Olbers considered inevitable existence of light absorption, which is based on reasoning or paradox. He said that if the infinite universe there is an infinity of stars, spread it evenly, then the sky would be dazzling shine, just like the Sun. Assuming - for simplicity - that all stars have equal dimensions, Olbers concluded that the surface of all the stars seen from Earth is infinitely greater than the surface of the celestial sphere. Star discs cover each other and thus occupying the entire celestial sphere, they would be - without a sink - something dazzling.
The photometric paradox of Olbers, together with another paradox, the gravity, of H. Seeliger, forces us to choose the model so universal that these two contradictions do not occur. This was necessary to admit a considerable light absorption in interstellar space.


Phenomena studied in depth throughout the universe reveals the presence of scattering materials difficult to detect, apparently unnoticed, usually bearing the name "diffuse field". Different aspects, starting with interstellar absorption of light, fully demonstrates the various forms in which this matter is presented. The fact that matter exists in reality serve as interplanetary space, interstellar and intergalactic those are not empty, repeatedly passed unnoticed.
William Herschel, in his research assumed that attenuates starlight is exactly inversely proportional to square of the distance. In other words, he believed that interstellar space is perfectly transparent, as there are phenomena of light absorption, in any form. In the same period in 1774, a researcher with much less known about theoretical got to suspect the existence of the phenomenon of light absorption. He believes that space is filled with a "fluid" able to mitigate the weak light. In the absence of a sink in interstellar space, a simple reasoning leads him in his research on theoretical Chaizot contradiction. This reasoning was later developed by Mathias W. Olbers (1758 - 1840) in his famous paradox. By 1823, Olbers considered inevitable existence of light absorption, which is based on reasoning or paradox. He said that if the infinite universe there is an infinity of stars, spread it evenly, then the sky would be dazzling shine, just like the Sun. Assuming - for simplicity - that all stars have equal dimensions, Olbers concluded that the surface of all the stars seen from Earth is infinitely greater than the surface of the celestial sphere. Star discs cover each other and thus occupying the entire celestial sphere, they would be - without a sink - something dazzling.
The photometric paradox of Olbers, together with another paradox, the gravity, of H. Seeliger, forces us to choose the model so universal that these two contradictions do not occur. This was necessary to admit a considerable light absorption in interstellar space.

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