{"id":3922625,"date":"2025-10-31T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-mundane-universe-and-the-rarity-of-advanced-civilizations\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:03:22","slug":"a-mundane-universe-and-the-rarity-of-advanced-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-mundane-universe-and-the-rarity-of-advanced-civilizations\/","title":{"rendered":"A mundane universe and the rarity of advanced civilizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>How could the principle of &#8220;radical mundanity&#8221; proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven&#8217;t found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a recent study posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to address as a lone researcher investigated the prospect of finding ETCs based on this principle. This study has the potential to help scientists and the public better understand why we haven&#8217;t identified intelligent life beyond Earth and how we might narrow the search for it.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-mundane-universe-rarity-advanced-civilizations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could the principle of &#8220;radical mundanity&#8221; proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven&#8217;t found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a recent study posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to address as a lone researcher investigated the prospect of finding ETCs based on this principle. This study [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}