> >Pick any point in the night sky and extend a line from you to that point,
> >eventually the line will hit the surface of a star, so the entire sky should> >be as bright as the sun. Put it another way, all the light emitted by an
> >infinite number of stars would have nowhere to go,
>
> Stars surrounding us act as shields reflecting the light outside.
Stars obviously shine and are not reflective. However, absorbing dust
clouds have been proposed by proponents of a static universe, but the
clouds would heat up due to the absorbed radiation until they shone
equally bright.
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