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I have a question that I remembered having in an astronomy class way back when after reading one of the posts here that maybe somebody can help answer.<br /><br />One of the arguements against an infinite static universe is that the photons from all the infinite stars would create a blindingly bright sky even at night. My question is why?<br /><br />Shouldn't there be tons of other matter out there that would absorb these photons especially in the course of trillions of lightyears(considering an infinite universe) of travel? Aren't there particles even in the "vacuum"? Then there should also be planets in the path, oort clouds, kuipers' belts, dust clouds, black holes, faint stars, etc?<br /><br />So why after some distance wouldn't it be unlikely for any light to reach us from a star being sufficiently far away? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font color="#0000ff">______________</font></em></p><p><em><font color="#0000ff">Caution, I may not know what I'm talking about.</font></em></p> </div>