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Remember how 42 is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? And how everyone's searching for the Ultimate Question? I think I've figured it ou
by CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
Remember how 42 is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? And how everyone's searching for the Ultimate Question? I think I've figured it out.
According to Prak, it is impossible for both The Answer and The Question to be known in the same universe; should someone know both the question and the answer, the universe would cease to exist and would be replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable. The narrator teases the reader that another theory states that this has already happened before.
I posit that the Ultimate Question is, "How many times have the Ultimate Question and Ultimate Answer been known, and thusly the universe been eradicated and replaced by something more bizarre and inexplicable?"
Answer: Forty-two.
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- studentrob 10y agoThat can't be it, we're still here. Quit guessing! ;-)
- Razengan 10y agoBut were we [past tense of still] here? Or did we come into existence in this new universe created by the above commenter?
- studentrob 10y agoHmm ok I'll bite. If that's happened, then the number is ever-increasing and can't be known, because the moment you ask the question, the number increments and the answer changes Sounds like quantum stuff which would be right up Douglas Adams' alley. Cool theory, CiPHPerCoder! I'd agree you've nailed it
- Razengan 10y agoAnother possibility is that the Answer to the Question is a new universe.
- studentrob 10y agoAh, good one. You people are smart