"The Olbers paradox Solved"
This paper presents a novel resolution to Olbers’ paradox—the darkness of the night sky—through the framework of Magnetic Information Density (MID). Conventional explanations invoke cosmic expansion or finite stellar lifetimes, but they do not address the underlying physical mechanism limiting light propagation. MID theory introduces a universal coherence threshold, κ (Wilcox constant), below which electromagnetic propagation decoheres. Light from distant stars beyond this threshold loses structure, naturally producing a finite night sky brightness. The framework unifies multiple cosmological phenomena, including: time as an emergent property from MID collapse, black hole emission suppression, cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations, galaxy rotation dynamics, and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scaling. It provides testable predictions for laboratory environments (high-field photon suppression, atomic clock deviations) and for cosmological observations (CMB anomalies, BAO scales, gravitational wave phase shifts). By establishing κ from quantum vacuum coherence principles, this work offers a physically grounded, falsifiable mechanism that links magnetic coherence, light propagation, and temporal emergence. MID theory provides a rigorous, unifying approach to cosmic structure and resolves the historical paradox of the dark night sky. Keywords: Olbers’ paradox, Magnetic Information Density, MID, Wilcox constant, κ, cosmic coherence, decoherence, CMB, black holes, large-scale structure, emergent time, falsifiable cosmology ---
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-08-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16956746
- Primary Topic
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00