How do you start with rocks, gasses, and water, and end up with humans?
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One day in 1950, in the midst of lunch with colleagues, Italian/American physicist Enrico Fermi suddenly asked, “Where is everybody?”
Fermi wasn’t referring to the lunch crowd. What Fermi was pondering was why—with so many Sun-like stars in our Galaxy, and the potential of so many Earth-like planets—our Galaxy wasn’t awash with signs of extraterrestrial life.
This apparent contradiction between the high probability of, but total lack of evidence for, extraterrestrial civilizations became known as Fermi’s Paradox...
About the Author
D. Mark Yeomans has a PhD in Experimental Nuclear Physics from the University of Regina, and has worked as an academic, engineer, entrepreneur, and animal trainer. When he’s not unravelling the mysteries of the Universe, he enjoys reading, travelling, watching sports, and working with horses. He currently lives in Regina with his mom, who likes to remind him that he is most definitely descended from an ape.