Fermi Paradox

The Fermi Paradox is a theory questioning life outside of our Earth. As we all know, the universe is a big, never ending void. There’s constellations upon constellations, galaxies upon galaxies. With its giant size, it voids the question of: are we really alone in this giant equation?

The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, is the theory questioning are we the only intelligent life forms in our giant universe? Taking “scale and probability” into consideration, logically, there’s no reason there aren’t other intelligent life forms out there. But when we are faced with the lack of evidence to prove this to be true, we are stuck with the Fermi Paradox.

There are the few who full heartedly believe there are alien life forms and who dedicated their lives to theorizing and research to simply gain proof of these bad boys being real. But one thing that’s brought up in the paradox is that the lack of proof is astounding. By now, we would presumably have found something that has been related to other life forms such as colonization or old tools they had used, but we have no evidence of this. 

There are 200-400 billion stars in the Milky Way alone which can only lead you to believe that there are other life forms amongst the stars and constellations. It can be left up to someone to “believe” in alien life forms but the Fermi Paradox and Drake equation are just pieces of statistical science that are trying to use proven facts and math to prove the likelihood of other forms of life in our galaxy. So in reality, believing in aliens is one thing, but having evidence to prove that aliens are real is a completely different thing.

“Are aliens real” is much the same as “are ghosts real” except one of them you can actually use science and evidence to back up and one is up to hear-say. But they both fall under the branch of “if there’s actual proof, then I can say it’s real”. For example, the proof that alien obsessed people use is the Egyptian Pyramids and how it was almost humanly impossible to build those all alone with the technology of that time period. There are hieroglyphics on walls in Egypt that could outline possible other life forms assisting the Egyptians on the pyramids but in all, wall art isn’t the strongest form of evidence and there were no artifacts dug up to help prove this to be true (also, they were using slaves so they obviously were treating them inhumanly to do these very hard tasks that an average person wouldn’t want to do). 

Overall, the Paradox just helped to raise questions but didn’t do much to prove. But, it was putting aliens into science and giving us an upper hand in finding an answer to the looming question of “are we alone?” and has given us an outlet to maybe look for more evidence of intelligent life forms so that we can put our questions to rest.