The reason I’m not sure is it sounds like you’re describing cases where a hypothetical, designed for some other purpose is flawed, unbeknownst to the creator, whereas Olber’s paradox was a case of a hypothetical framed to show a contradiction in our existing knowledge of the universe.
Sounds like it might. Wikipedia says this goes back to the 16th century.
The reason I’m not sure is it sounds like you’re describing cases where a hypothetical, designed for some other purpose is flawed, unbeknownst to the creator, whereas Olber’s paradox was a case of a hypothetical framed to show a contradiction in our existing knowledge of the universe.