Today I'm gonna tell you what a nuclear physicist and the search for aliens can teach us about finding love!
Ok, so scientists don't know exactly how love works or what it does to our brains, but that's a topic for another show.
But what we DO know, is that at some point, almost everyone on Earth goes out looking for love.
But with 7 billion other humans out there, so why can love be so hard to find?
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Sometimes you feel like saying "Where is everybody?" That's exactly what Enrico Fermi asked, except that HE was talking about alien life.
Fermi thought that: in a galaxy of billions of stars and planets, if even a tiny fraction have life, billions of years should be plenty of time for an alien to pop over and say "Hey!
Welcome to the neighborhood" It's called Fermi's Paradox.
An astronomer named Frank Drake took Fermi's question and answered it with an EQUATION, because THAT'S what astronomers do.
If you plug in some data about the galaxy you can estimate how many civilizations there might be out there.
