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What Is Fermi’s Paradox and Why Does it Matter?

How Enrico Fermi’s decades old question continues to captivate the world

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Apr 10, 2025
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In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory were discussing extraterrestrial life and the size of our universe when Fermi famously asked “Where is everybody?”

He wondered why, given all of the Earth-like planets capable of supporting life and the unthinkable time scales of the uni…

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