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Layzer's theory also helps resolve what is known as Olber's Paradox on the night- time...
According to Olber, Layzer said yesterday, the light produced by faraway stars should make the night sky intensely bright and hot. Obler reached this conclusion after observing a "shell" of stars at a given distance from the earth. While the brightness of the stars will diminish with the square of their distance, Layzer said. The area of the shell--and thus the number of stars on it--will go up it the same rate...
...result, the total amount of light reaching the earth will be fantastically large. But, as any observer can tell, the sky is dark, and some part of Olber's argument must therefore be incorrect...
Astronomy 4.--The Determination of Orbits. Olber's method for parabolic orbits; Leuschner's "Short Method" for orbits of any eccentricity. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, at 10. Dr. Duncan...
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