Olbers's paradox, also known as the dark night paradox or Olbers and Cheseaux's paradox, is an argument in astrophysics and physical cosmology that says...

A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...

belt. On 6 March 1815, Olbers discovered a periodic comet, now named after him (formally designated 13P/Olbers). Olbers' paradox, described by him in 1823...

This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list...

interpretation of Hubble's law is relevant to the old conundrum known as Olbers' paradox: If the universe were infinite in size, static, and filled with a uniform...

Earth's atmosphere, the sky is black day and night. An illustration of Olbers' paradox (see below) Image of the central black hole of Messier 87 taken by...

The heat death paradox, also known as thermodynamic paradox, Clausius' paradox, and Kelvin's paradox, is a reductio ad absurdum argument that uses thermodynamics...

Olbers, a 200 km diameter dark albedo feature on 4 Vesta's surface Olbers' paradox, evidence for a finite, dynamic universe, based on the luminosity of...

has media related to Johann Heinrich von Mädler. Frank J. Tipler, "Olbers's Paradox, the Beginning of Creation, and Johann Mädler," Journal for the History...

the calculated entropy is not an extensive variable as it should be. Olbers' paradox shows that an infinite universe with a uniform distribution of stars...