At the risk of going more-pedantic-than-thou, this entire thread of nitpicks (and indeed, most of the posts I see right now to this story in general) is(&#x2F;are) mostly irrelevant. The argument is not particularly sensitive to the exact way in which the universe is not steady state, including redshifting all the light until we&#x27;re not staring at the sun in every direction. Olber&#x27;s Paradox disproves the Steady State hypothesis, it doesn&#x27;t positively prove anything in particular. Popular treatments of Olber&#x27;s Paradox are not obligated to come attached to a complete course in cosmology. I&#x27;m sure at least one of &quot;Steven Soter and Neil deGrasse Tyson&quot; are fully aware of all the issues raised in this entire HN page.