Most people like to believe that we are not alone in the universe. Just the fact that there are so many stars out there should mean that alien life surely exists. However, these remain dreams for now because extraterrestrial life forms do not seem very eager to contact us. For years, experts have been trying to solve the Fermi Paradox, which deals with whether or not we are indeed alone in the universe. They have proposed multiple theories. Aliens may be hiding from us, they may be waiting until we evolve, or they may have even done something that prevented them from contacting us.
Now, there is a new theory that might end all speculation, and it might disappoint a lot of people. According to a new study, which the pre-publication site arXiv recently published, alien life doesn’t exist at all and we are indeed alone in the universe. In it, a team of researchers from the Oxford University state that there is a very big probability that intelligent life in our observable universe doesn’t exist. Also, experts shouldn’t really be surprised if they’ll keep failing to detect signs of alien life.
Study suggests that alien life might not even exist
Moreover, their study suggests that alien life might not have even existed at all. The Fermi Paradox was inspired by a question that physicist Enrico Fermi posed during a 1950 lunch in the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. A group of scientists were talking. Their subject was a cartoon that showed aliens emerging out of a spaceship in New York City. Fermi suddenly asked, “Where is everyone?”. His doubt regarding the existence of alien life became famous and inspired what is now known as the Fermi Paradox. Ever since, experts have been trying to come up with answers to Fermi’s question. Unfortunately, they have all been unsuccessful.
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