The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?
In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi, over lunch with colleagues, posed a deceptively simple question: "Where is everybody?" This seemingly casual query sparked what we now know as the Fermi Paradox, a profound and unsettling contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing and the complete lack of evidence for them.
The paradox goes something like this: Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains an