RE: The most important question in the universe.


to tenchi@ML.usagi.org
from Kuuta Kutani <kutani_sama@yahoo.com>
subject RE: The most important question in the universe.
date Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:58:06 -0700 (PDT)

--- Kevin Aw <Kevin.Aw@seagatesoftware.com> 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

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