Scientists Have A New Theory Why We’ve Never Been Contacted By Aliens
A Swiss scientist thinks aliens have yet to contact us because radio signals haven't been going into space from our planet for long enough yet.
It’s been a few months since mysterious UFOs were spotted in the skies over Northern America and beyond and, while speculation of a life beyond our own has begun to settle down, there are still many of us who believe that extraterrestrial life is out there. Although suspicions of aliens zipping through the sky aren’t necessarily a new thing, with reports happening for decades now, it leaves us perplexed with the question of why they’ve never made contact with Earthlings. While many have come up with reasons for their no-contact ways, a new report from ScienceAlert says that time is the major reason why we’ve been unable to connect with extraterrestrials.
According to a researcher from the Laboratory of Statistical Biophysics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, it isn’t so much that the aliens think they’re above speaking to us; it’s that our amount of time researching hasn’t been that long. As Claudio Grimaldi explains, scientists have only been looking for these lifeforms for 60 years, meaning that there’s a chance that during this time, the Earth could “be in a bubble that just happens to be devoid of radio waves emitted by extraterrestrial life.” And we thought we weren’t cool enough – whew.
Essentially, Grimaldi’s statements mean that because of the broadness of space, there’s a good likelihood that not enough of our frequencies have made it to alien lifeforms. While six decades may seem like a lot of time to some, in the grand scheme of things – especially when it comes to science – it’s really no time at all and certainly not enough time for us to get in touch with whoever or whatever might be traveling out there in space.
So, just how long of a wait are we looking at? According to a model that the researchers at EPFL came up with, not only is 60 years too short of an amount of time but so are 100, 500, and even 1,000 years. While optimistically, we could make a connection with aliens in the next century, it’s entirely possible that we may keep missing each other’s calls for the next 2,000 years, meaning that many of us will likely not be alive by the time we touch base with a life beyond our understanding.
Still, other researchers like Reilly Derrick and Howard Isaacson from the University of California’s Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses are holding onto hope that contact could be made as early as 2029. Quite a difference in opinions from the team at EPFL, the scientists point to stars and planets that Earth will output signals to as hope that their efforts will also lead to contacting aliens.
Because the Pentagon continues to go back and forth with their findings and belief of aliens making their way into our skyspace, the only taste of what lies beyond our universe comes by way of entertainment like The X-Files and Roswell, New Mexico. Hopefully, the researcher’s hard work will eventually pay off and we’ll make contact and learn from the extraterrestrials that we know are out there.
