Why Humanity’s Impatience Is Responsible for a Lack of Alien Life
Our search has been a mere blip in the timeline of the Universe.
Thirty years after Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox, Carl Sagan and William Newman presented an answer. For those unfamiliar, Fermi’s Paradox simply asks:
Where are all the aliens?
Statistically speaking, one has to imagine that there is life out in the stars, yet we have never seen any of it here on Earth. This is the idea from which his paradox was born. In fact, he wrote it while out at lunch with friends and it was so spur of the moment that he postulated the idea on a napkin.
For years following this, scientists have attempted to answer his question to no avail. However, thirty years after in the 1980s, Carl Sagan and William Newman posed a very simple idea as the answer:
It hasn’t been long enough.
The search for alien life has been something occurring ever since humanity first began exploring the stars. However, the fact of the matter is that it simply may be too soon to begin searching.
A big aspect of Fermi’s paradox was that the Universe is nearly 14 billion years old, yet there seems to be now evidence of aliens visiting Earth or in general. Sagan and Newman…
