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原帖由 bsese 于 2008-3-31 13:57 发表 
星光以有限速度传播,这不是合理的理由,因为远处早期的光与近处近期的光是可以同时到达的,同样可引起亮度增亮。
对,远处早期的光与近处近期的光是可以同时到达,引起亮度增量,但问题是我们不是无限老,所以这个“远处”是有限的,我们是不能接收到无限远的光。因此,我们接收到的星光是来自有限颗恒星,位于有限的“远处”。
你参考一下关于Olber's paradox的资料应该会更加明白。
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/123/lecture-5/olbers.html
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers.html
http://www.arachnoid.com/sky/olbersparadox.html
http://www.answers.com/olber%27s+paradox?cat=technology
The riddle of cosmic darkness. The obvious explanation for the darkness of the night sky, that the Sun is on the other side of the Earth, does not account for the fact that, in space far from any star, the universe is full of darkness and not of light.
In a boundless universe of stars, with no interstellar absorption, every line of sight from the eye must eventually intercept the surface of a star. If most stars are similar to the Sun, the sky at every point should shine as bright as the Sun's disk. The sky (or celestial sphere) is 180,000 times larger than the Sun's disk, and the starlight incident on the Earth should therefore be 180,000 times more intense than sunlight, which obviously is not the case. Hermann Bondi resurrected the riddle of cosmic darkness in 1952 and attributed it to the nineteenth-century astronomer Wilhelm Olbers, although, as is now known, it had previously been discussed by Edmund Halley and other astronomers.
Edgar Allan Poe suggested in 1848 that the universe is not old enough for the light from very distant stars to have reached the Earth; this was investigated by Lord Kelvin in 1901. Modern calculations confirm Kelvin's results: light travels at approximately 186,000 mi/s (300,000 km/s) and, in a static universe 10–20 × 109 years old, stars cannot shine long enough for their light to reach the Earth from regions sufficiently distant for the visible stars to cover the entire sky. This means that stars cannot shine long enough to fill the universe with radiation in equilibrium with their surfaces. Clearly, if the sky at night is dark in a static universe of finite age, then in an expanding universe of similar age the night sky is even darker because of the redshift. See also Big bang theory; Cosmology; Universe.