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This conception is in itself not very satisfactory. It is still

less satisfactory because it leads to the result that the light

emitted by the stars and also individual stars of the stellar

system are perpetually passing out into infinite space, never to

return, and without ever again coming into interaction with other

objects of nature. Such a finite material universe would be

destined to become gradually but systematically impoverished.