The Fermi Paradox seeks to answer the question of where the aliens are.
Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, known for creating the first nuclear reactor, came up with the theory with a casual lunchtime remark in 1950.
This is how the Fermi paradox goes:
The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars, and billions of them are similar to the sun.
It is highly likely that some of these stars will have planets that are similar to Earth.
If we assume that Earth is not particularly special, then intelligent life should also exist on some fraction of these Earth-like planets.
Some of these intelligent life-forms might develop advanced technology and even interstellar travel.
Interstellar travel would take a long time, but as there are many sun-like stars that are billions of years older, there has been plenty of time for such travel to have occurred.
Given all this, why haven’t we met or seen any trace of aliens? Where is everybody?
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