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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Olbers' Paradox
Diligent students find eight
out of ten texts still answer
Heinrich's Newtonian
challenge, incorrectly -- Why,
he asked, is the night sky black?
Before he died, Poe penned
an answer in Eureka: when you
gaze skyward into the heavens
expecting uniform luminosity
and instead, great voids appear
between stars, it's because you stare
into the immense distance
of a yet-to-be-illuminated past.
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Doug Knowlton, 2007
with thanks to Michio Kaku for his wonderful story in Parallel Worlds.
