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Martin_G
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I understand Olbers' Paradox and its resolution, however such phrases as this - "If the universe extends infinitely, then eventually if we look out into the night sky, we should be able to see a star in any direction, even if the star is really far away" - which can be found http://cmb.physics.wisc.edu/tutorial/olbers.html" and also in at least one textbook, strike me as plain wrong. Even if there are infinitely many stars, there is no reason to expect that any infinite line from a point would hit at least one of them. This seems intuitively obvious. Am I missing something, or is that quote just a bad way of formulating the paradox?
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