British particle physicist Brian Cox, researcher at the Royal Society of London and the LHC at CERN, believes that has not been a contact with aliens "simply because they have destroyed themselves before evolving enough."
Speaking to The Sunday Times, Cox explains his theory in relation to the absence of contact with extraterrestrials. In his view, the pace of progress in science and engineering in any extraterrestrial civilization could overcome the development of political institutions capable of managing, leading to a model of self-destruction.
So the technology that allows the generation of energy but produces greenhouse gases or nuclear weapons can destroy civilizations within a few thousand years of development, which could endanger our own civilization as well.
The problem was first mooted by the physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950 to say that if any form of life with rocket technology could colonize the galaxy in a few million years, why there was no evidence already?
According to Professor Cox, a science writer on British television and former battery Ream group, "a solution to the Fermi paradox is that it is not possible to develop a world that has the power to destroy itself and you need global collaboration solutions to avoid that. "
"It may be that the growth of science and engineering development inevitably overcomes political experience, leading to disaster," he said.
