On the very edge of the creepy end of the spectrum falls Dark Forest Theory, a piece of speculation on the topic outlined in Liu Cixin's sci-fi novel The Dark Forest. In conversations between a ...

This is the dark forest hypothesis, and it’s the core idea of Liu Cixin’s book of the same name, the sequel to the Three Body Problem. Liu Cixin coined the term, although the idea ...

But is it a plausible solution to the Fermi paradox? Of all the posited answers, experts say the Dark Forest hypothesis seems less likely to be correct. It’s possible that several ...

The analogy extends beyond just a colonialist reading: the books also raise the “dark forest hypothesis”, which says that the universe is like a forest in which cosmic distances obscure others’ ...