The incredible (non-)shrinking holes

[Huw Powell]

>>Having just explained nuclear fusion to my
>>seven-year-old by using mini chocolate chips ...
> 
> Not a good idea.  I explained Olber's Paradox to my son when he was seven:
> 
> http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/study/sci/cosmo/internal/olbers.htm
> 
> A few weeks later, his poor schoolmistress tried to explain to the class why the sky was dark
> at night - but she had one little voice saying: "Please Miss, it shouldn't be!"

"At least one of the assumptions that the universe is static, uniform 
and infinite in extent must be wrong."

I believe the solutionis that the universe is not static.  Since objects 
far away from us are receding at incredible speeds, their light is 
hugely red-shifted.

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/