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Nobody knows for sure, but it seems to be somehow tied to the number of fundamental types in programming languages. And there is wispy evidence that the univers

• calgoo 10y ago
  Lisp & Perl according to xkcd :P https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp.jpg https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp.jpg
  • ufmace 10y ago
    > Perl So that explains why nobody can figure out how the Universe works!
• givinguflac 10y ago
  It all makes sense. The universe progressing toward heat death is a memory leak, and it causes a reboot every 10^10^10^56 years. Unfortunately there is no non-volatile memory.
  • pdkl95 10y ago
    > a reboot every 10^10^10^56 years According to Don Page[1], that time (for our universe) is approximately 10^10^10^10^2.08 "Plank times, millenia, or whatever"[2]. [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411193 http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411193 [2] The units given in the paper (see [1], page 8) Numberphile video about this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCf29FPM4k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCf29FPM4k
    • givinguflac 10y ago
      Ok, well A.) It was clearly a joke. B.) That number was based off the Wikipedia heat death of the universe page reference for this: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410270 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410270 C.) Regardless of the correct amount of time, no one will be there to verify it. We don't even understand enough yet to say with absolute confidence that heat death is the definitive final outcome of the universe. But thanks for the reply :)