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348. Black Holes, Time Travel, and the Origin of the Universe | Dr. Brian Keating

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Paradox of the Night Sky

Is it also the case that it's the redshift that explains the fact that the night sky is primarily black instead of lit up? The latter question is related to something called Olber's Paradox. No matter where you were in an infinite universe, your eye would terminate on a star's surface somewhere. But even at night, we don't see any stars that are any or the night sky's intensity is nowhere near as close as the surface of the sun.

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