I'm really not convinced by the passages, both in Wikipedia and in the referenced book, concerning the role of the finite age of stars. From what I remember fr

I'm really not convinced by the passages, both in Wikipedia and in the referenced book, concerning the role of the finite age of stars. From what I remember from Coles-Lucchin, the finite age of stars does furnish a partial explanation: keeping the average density of lit stars the universe constant, does not solve the problem, since in general, when I look in a particular direction, any star in that direction will either be dead or lit, but still too far away for its light to have reached me. Indeed the opposite would require fine-tuning the stars ignition time so that there is sphere of burning stars at the right distance.