Subject: Re: [HM] L'Hopital, Pythagoras, Ptolemy and Hilbert
From: RJR_McWhinnie (RJR_McWhinnie@compuserve.com)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 02:52:08 EST
On 18-Mar-00 20:29:12 James A. Landau wrote:
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Someone---I cannot recall whom or when---deduced that the universe was
finite. If it were infinte (and stars were distributed randomly) then any
line of sight will reach a star and the night sky will not be dark
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The paradox is named after Heinreich Olbers (1758-1840), who drew
attention to it in c1823.
bob(mc)
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