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unusual facts about Olbers' paradox


Olbers' paradox

Poet Edgar Allan Poe suggested that the finite size of the observable universe resolves the apparent paradox.


Comet Olbers

13P/Olbers (a.k.a. 13P/1815 E1, 13P/1887 Q1, 1887 V, 1887f, 13P/1956 A1, 1956 IV, 1956a)

Downs–Thomson paradox

A 1968 article by Dietrich Braess, now at the Faculty of Mathematics in Ruhr University, pointed out the existence of this counter-intuitive occurrence on networks: the Braess' paradox states that adding extra capacity to a network, when the moving entities selfishly choose their route, can in some cases reduce overall performance.

John Clive Ward

In current terminology this result corresponds to a pair of entangled photons and is directly relevant to a typical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox, or situation, as explained by Dalitz and Duarte.


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