From the studies of quantum mechanics, scientists can acknowledge that the universe can be summed up in one simple equation.
Technically, Deep Thought was built to calculate the answer to life universe and everything else, he was never built to take questions.
The white mice questioned him and he said that they never asked the right question
Basically the universe has no answers, just equations to satisfy the outcome of partial events.
Having said that, the answer is not 42, it was just a misunderstanding and a minor technicality.
2006-07-15 08:28:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It's not 42, the square root of two
2006-07-15 09:41:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I once read an interview with Douglas Adams. He said he chose 42 because it sounded funny. I think with a properly enunciated British accent, it might be the funniest sounding of the 2 digit numbers. This, of course, is open to differences of opinion.
I think the idea is that the universe is not supposed to make perfect sense. To exaggerate it in a book such that it make so little sense that it starts to make sense again, well, it just makes sense.
2006-07-15 16:10:37 · answer #2 · answered by foofoo19472 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Oh no, the answer definitely is 42.
I believe it's the question you're confused about. That's why the Earth was built, to figure out the question. Too bad it was destroyed...
2006-07-15 15:32:31 · answer #3 · answered by Tim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zaphod Beeblebrox has a computer that was designed spcifically to determine the answer.
Got mice?
You got here by an improbability factor of 287,8763,878,913.13243 : 1
Normality restored.
2006-07-15 15:43:11 · answer #4 · answered by Sleeping Troll 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
big misunderstanding because the answer to the universe is clear, The Lord God created the universe and yes there are many equations that are beyond what man can conjure up. He is beyond algebra and beyond any kind of trig equation anyone can come up with.Jesus Christ is Lord...
2006-07-15 15:45:41 · answer #5 · answered by itsmedonna2005 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what is the question from the universe?
only then can you have the answer to the universe!
2006-07-15 22:14:47 · answer #6 · answered by dwh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they got it from that film hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
2006-07-15 16:07:01 · answer #7 · answered by Yndy'91 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's FUNNY!
2006-07-15 15:35:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋