
If the Universe is infinite, why is the night sky dark?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is the Universe Infinite?
i think he spent a lot of time thinking about the stars and going for long, crisp walks, you know, in the evening. So let me readu this quote from edgar allan poe: If the universe is infinite, then every line you make, you should hit a star. He's thinking about the time it takes light to get here from those stars. And he's assuming that it hasn't had an infinite amount of time. That means that there are some stars who are so far away that the light from them has never reached us.
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