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Olbers Paradox The Routledge Critical Dictionary of the New Cosmology by Peter Coles, Just what is Einstein's Theory of Relativity? The Big Bang Theory? Curvature of Spacetime? What do astronomers mean when they talk of a "flat universe"? This approachable and authoritative guide to the cosmos answers these questions, and more. Taking advantage of the distinctive Critical Dictionary format, readers can use the extensive, cross-referenced background chapters as a fascinating and accessible introduction to the current state of cosmological knowledge -- or, they can use the convenient A-Z body of entries as a quick reference to a wide range of terms and concepts. Entries include topics such as: Black Hole; Doppler Effect; Fermi, Enrico; Heat Death of the Universe; Life in the Universe; Olber's Paradox; Quantum Field Theory; Supernova; and much more.
Olbers' paradox - Olbers' paradox, described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in 1826 and earlier by Johannes Kepler in 1610 and Halley and Cheseaux in the 18th century, is the paradoxical observation that the night sky is dark, when in a static infinite universe the night sky ought to be bright. This is sometimes also known as the "dark night sky paradox". Unexpected hanging paradox - The unexpected hanging paradox is a paradox involving logic. It is alternatively known as the hangman paradox, the fire drill paradox, or the unexpected exam paradox. Grelling-Nelson paradox - The Grelling-Nelson paradox is a semantic paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson and sometimes mistakenly attributed to German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl. It is thus occasionally called Weyl's paradox, as well as Grelling's paradox. Paradox of value - The paradox of value (also known as the diamond-water paradox) is the apparent contradiction that, although water is essential to life and diamonds have mostly aesthetic value, the price of water is vastly lower than that of diamonds. Adam Smith propounded on the paradox in The Wealth of Nations. olbersparadox |
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