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Jan 10, 2024 · “42 is an answer that’s extremely consistent with the best data we have,” Siegel wrote. “It may yet turn out to be the exact answer to this question, although superior data will...
- Ethan Siegel
- At how many degrees, offset from the Sun (or any light source), is a rainbow produced? There are many ways to create a rainbow: from raindrops to waterfalls to garden hoses to mist to the spray from bodies of water.
- What is the number of ways that you can partition the number 10? It’s easy to think of different ways to divide up any number. If you have three oranges, and two people, for example, you can give all three to person 1, all three to person 2, one to person 1 and two to person 2, or 1.5 to each of the two people.
- What is the largest integer whose reciprocal, along with three other unique integer reciprocals, adds up to 1? Perhaps the Universe, as some have conjectured, really is driven by mathematical relationships at a core level, with those relationships underpinning the physical laws of reality.
- How many times will the Sun orbit the Milky Way before catastrophically transforming into a red giant? This is one of the most fun facts about our Solar System, where the planets revolve around the Sun and the Sun, like all stars, orbits around center of the Milky Way.
- Adams famously came up with the need for a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk and poor in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, while backpacking around Europe before going to university.
- In a wonderful twist in keeping with the book’s opening premise of Earth being demolished to make way for a motorway, the Innsbruck field has since been paved over to make way for a stretch of autobahn.
- There is some disagreement as to the correct writing of the book’s title, notably in the book itself, where it ranges from Hitch-hiker’s to Hitchhiker’s and Hitch Hiker’s, with and without apostrophes, depending on whether you are looking at the cover, the spine, the contents, the radio outline, or the American version.
- Arthur Dent was to be called Aleric B before a last-minute replacement in the script outline Adams pitched to the BBC. He had originally thought of writing six episodes in which the Earth ended differently each time, but needed a means of explaining the universe at which point he remembered his idea from Innsbruck.
Nov 17, 2013 · According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Is it ever explained, in canon 1, why the answer to the meaning of life is 42? 1 - Book, Film, TV series or Radio series.
Mar 7, 2008 · "Douglas told me in the strictest confidence exactly why 42. The answer is fascinating, extraordinary and, when you think hard about it, completely obvious. Nonetheless...
Sep 10, 2019 · The number 42 is especially significant to fans of science fiction novelist Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” because that number is the answer given by a supercomputer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”
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But here are five reasons why 42 is as good an ultimate answer as any: 1. In a 3 x 3 x 3 magic cube, where the numbers 1,2,3,4... 27 are all written at an intersection point, each column, row, and pillar adds up to 42. 2. The optimum angle for white light to refract through water and thus form a rainbow is between 40.89 and 42 degrees. 3.
