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- The idea that these spacefaring aliens are simply reluctant to reveal themselves has featured in sci-fi storytelling for many decades. Liu, in his 2008 book, gave the hypothesis a catchy name. He describes the universe as a dark forest, wherein each alien society is like a fearful, armed hunter gingerly moving forth.
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Apr 16, 2021 · “The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without...
- James Felton
The dark forest hypothesis is the conjecture that many alien civilizations exist throughout the universe, but they are both silent and hostile, maintaining their undetectability for fear of being destroyed by another hostile and undetected civilization. [1]
- One Solution, However, Is A Bit Darker Than The Others
- How Plausible Is This Theory?
- Why Is This Theory Dark?
The Dark Forest solution explains why we haven’t heard from aliens by positing that they are purposefully keeping quiet. The reasoning is laid out best in the science fiction novel The Dark Forest, by Liu Cixin. The plot of the book, the second in a series, concerns questions of how to best interact with potentially hostile alien life. In the novel...
This theory has the advantage of only affecting one of the variables in the Drake equation and affecting the one that is the most open to speculation. It also doesn’t require us to make broad assumptions about how all alien civilizations behave; a single advanced race that acts this way would be enough to cause the observed situation. This would al...
We’ve been screaming our existence to the cosmos for almost one hundred years now. Any aliens within a one hundred light year radius of us would be receiving a barrage of radio signals from our direction. If we had reason to avoid letting aliens know about us, as Stephen Hawking thought we did, we might have a problem. Why haven’t we heard from ali...
Dark Forest is a Fermi Paradox solution, which means that the omnicidal aliens must be able to snuff out any and all possible competitors before they're able to build something visually obvious and hard-to-destroy such as a Dyson swarm. It's not something that could plausibly have overlooked Earth life for billions of years.
The Silva Nigra - the black forest. Anyone who wants to embark on name research has to look back to the age of the Romans. Even at that time, the tribes called the forest area "Silva Nigra", a forest in black. At that time people settled in the region predominantly on the edge of the forest.
In real life, Dark Forest can work but on a very local scale, say 10-20 light years. That’s close enough for the Chain of Suspicion to be viable and any tech progression to be made irrelevant. Of course, the likelihood of finding sufficiently advanced aliens in that range is close to zero.
