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A more concise explanation can be found in the Usenet Physics FAQ:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers....

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> too. It does act like a radiation shield, exponentially damping the distant starlight.

This is wrong, damping is not exponential but to the fourth root.

A root is a fractional exponent; I can see that as a valid description.

Exponentially means that it grows like exp(x).

Also it's an important distinction, because an exponential will always eventually grow (or shrink, depending on sign) faster than a polynomial, no matter how high order.

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