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Volume 322 Issue 6078, 31 July 1986

Opinion

  • Governments should urgently give attention to the consequences of Chernobyl on public opinion of nuclear power — and should correct some of the damage they have done.

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  • A British committee has produced an enlightening report on future trends in education.

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Commentary

  • Lord Kelvin in 1901 tested an “old and celebrated hypothesis” that if we could see far enough into space the whole sky would be occupied with stellar disks all of perhaps the same brightness as the Sun. Kelvin was the first to solve quantitatively and correctly the riddle of a dark night sky, a riddle that had been previously solved qualitatively by Edgar Allan Poe, and is now known as Olbers' paradox.

    • Edward Harrison
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