Message-ID: <19990901215806.17992.rocketmail@web604.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:58:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Kuuta Kutani Subject: RE: The most important question in the universe. To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org Reply-To: tenchi@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk --- Kevin Aw wrote: > > From: Brazil [mailto:borgward@informatik.tu-muenchen.de] > > > > which explains why his result wasn't quite correct. Still, it's not > > all that difficult to deduct the right one from there. Which > > closes the > > circle... > > whew.. couldn't have explained it better.. 8) > > Hey.. anyone remember who was it (in the book) that said that if both the > question and the answer were known, that the Universe would disappear and a > new (and more outrageous one) would take its place? I mean besides the > introduction to one of the books.. wasn't there some character that was > dying that told that to someone else in the book? > hmm... i dont think so. i'm pretty sure that was just in the introduction... but i could be wrong, its been about 4 years since i read them.. ^_^ my personal favorite from the books is how he explained that the universe was, in fact, uninhabitited. ^_^ Synopsis for those who're interested: There are a finite # of inhabited worlds in the universe, of an infinite total number. Now, any finite # over infinity (N divided by infinity) is "as close to 0 as makes no odds." So, any intelegent beings one may incounter during ones life is probably due to a deranged imagination. Like i said, its a synopsis, not verbatim. but close enough. ^_^ -Kuuta