Editing Hubble's law (section)

=== Olbers' paradox ===
{{Main|Olbers' paradox}}
The expansion of space summarized by the Big Bang interpretation of Hubble's law is relevant to the old conundrum known as [[Olbers' paradox]]: If the universe were [[Infinity|infinite]] in size, [[static universe|static]], and filled with a uniform distribution of [[star]]s, then every line of sight in the sky would end on a star, and the sky would be as [[brightness|bright]] as the surface of a star. However, the night sky is largely dark.<ref name="Chase_etal_2004">{{cite web |last1=Chase |first1=S. I. |last2=Baez |first2=J. C. |date=2004 |title=Olbers' Paradox |url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers.html |website=The Original Usenet Physics FAQ |access-date=2013-10-17}}</ref><ref name="Asimov1974">{{cite book |last=Asimov |first=I. |date=1974 |chapter=The Black of Night |title=Asimov on Astronomy |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |isbn=978-0-385-04111-9 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/asimovonastronom00isaa |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/asimovonastronom00isaa }}</ref>

Since the 17th&nbsp;century, astronomers and other thinkers have proposed many possible ways to resolve this paradox, but the currently accepted resolution depends in part on the Big Bang theory, and in part on the Hubble expansion: in a universe that existed for a finite amount of time, only the light of a finite number of stars has had enough time to reach us, and the paradox is resolved. Additionally, in an expanding universe, distant objects recede from us, which causes the light emanated from them to be redshifted and diminished in brightness by the time we see it.<ref name=Chase_etal_2004/><ref name=Asimov1974/>