Download or read book Dark Sky, Dark Matter written by J.M Overduin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olbers' paradox states that given the Universe is unbounded, governed by the standard laws of physics, and populated by light sources, the night sky should be ablaze with light. Obviously this is not so. However, the paradox does not lie in nature but in our understanding of physics. A Universe with a finite age, such as follows from big-bang theor