The German philosopher Heinrich Olbers coined the Olbers paradox: if there were infinite stars in a static universe, the sky would shine as brightly as the surface luminosity of the Sun, even at night (this is not the case because there was the Big Bang and so the stars were born at a certain time in the past, then there is the red shift, and the stars in our universe are not infinite). In fact, the stars, being in a three-dimensional volume, increase with the cube of the distance, while their luminosity decreases with the square of the radius (electromagnetic field).
