{"id":501,"date":"2012-11-12T14:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/?p=501"},"modified":"2012-11-12T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:09:57","slug":"nature-1-olbers-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/2012\/11\/12\/nature-1-olbers-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature 1 &#8211; Olber&#8217;s Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olber&#8217;s Paradox is an argument that contradicts the existence of an infinite static universe. If it is assumed that there are an infinite number of stars, then the night sky should be bright. The sketch starts with the Big Bang, and then proceedss to expands until it reaches a static state.<br \/>\n(http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olbers&#8217;_paradox)<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"application\/processing\">\r\nint unisize=5;\r\nvoid setup(){\r\n  size (600,300);\r\n  background(255);\r\n  frameRate(48);\r\n  smooth();\r\n}\r\nvoid draw(){\r\n  float starx = width\/2;\r\n  float stary = height\/2;\r\n  if (unisize <= 700) {\r\n    fill(0,0,40);\r\n    ellipse(width\/2, height\/2, unisize, unisize);\r\n    unisize += 5;\r\n  }\r\n  fill(random(200,255),random(200,255),random(200,255),random(200,255));\r\n  noStroke();\r\n  float starsize=random(15);\r\n  ellipse(random(width),random(height),starsize,starsize);\r\n}\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olber&#8217;s Paradox is an argument that contradicts the existence of an infinite static universe. If it is assumed that there are an infinite number of stars, then the night sky should be bright. The sketch starts with the Big Bang, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/2012\/11\/12\/nature-1-olbers-paradox\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/IMGD3x00_B12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}