This article is about a hypothesized solution to the Fermi paradox. For other uses, see Aestivation (disambiguation).
The aestivation hypothesis is a hypothesized solution to the Fermi paradox conceived in 2017 by Anders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong and Milan M. Ćirković. The hypothesis, published on 27 April 2017, suggests advanced alien civilizations may be storing energy and aestivating (hibernating in times of heat instead of cold), until the universe cools to better make use of the stored energy to perform tasks.
As the universe cools, the potential work producible by stored energy can increase by a multiplier of 1030 per Landauer's principle. If the goal of an advanced civilization is to maximize the number of calculations done, to generate information processing for tasks like mass-producing simulations, then aestivation would be purposeful to achieve this end.[1][2][3]
^Sandberg, Anders; Armstrong, Stuart; Ćirković, Milan M. (27 April 2017). "That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox". arXiv:1705.03394 [physics.pop-ph].
^Dvorsky, George (31 May 2017). "Hibernating Aliens Could Explain the Great Silence". Gizmodo. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^Tangermann, Victor (1 December 2017). "Where is alien life? Six of the top theories". Futurism. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
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