| 单词 | Olbers' paradox |
| 释义 | Olbers' paradox /olˈbərz parˈə-doks/ (astronomy)nounThe apparent paradox, stated in 1826 and now explained by postulating a finite expanding universe, that the sky is dark at night although, as there are an infinite number of stars, it should be uniformly bright ORIGIN: Heinrich Olbers (1758–1840), German astronomer and physicist, who first stated the paradox |
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