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Hint: This question is called "Olber's paradoxon".
Do "Skeleton" Filaments Give Structure to the Universe? | Universe Today 2009
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Latin paradoxum, from Greek paradoxon, from neuter sing. of paradoxos, conflicting with expectation : para-beyond + doxa- opinion from dokein, to think.
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Ut herbas Alpinie in noftris hortis fl-igore fepe per - eant, quod eis paradoxon videtw, qui Alpium na - turam ignorant.
Caroli a Linné ... Amoenitates academicae; seu, Dissertationes variae ... 1788
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Papias] heteron paradoxon peri Iouston ton epiklethenta Barsaban gegonos: [1680] 1
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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Papias] heteron paradoxon peri Iouston ton epiklethenta Barsaban gegonos, -- evidently a slip of the pen for
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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