In Life, the Universe and Everything, a character named " Prak," who "knows all that is true," confirms that 42 is indeed The Answer, and that it is impossible for both The Answer and The Question to be known in the same universe, as they will cancel each other out and take the Universe with them-to be replaced by something even more bizarre (as described in the first theory) and that it may have already happened (as described in the second).
: 128 When confronted with this, the author claimed that it was a mere coincidence, stating that "I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13." 54 in decimal is equal to 42 expressed in base-13).
Some readers who were trying to find a deeper meaning in the passage soon noticed a certain veracity when using base-13 6 10 × 9 10 = 54 10, which can be expressed as 42 13, i.e. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened. Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Quoting Fit the Seventh of the radio series, on Christmas Eve, 1978: Therefore, the question in Arthur's subconscious was invalid all along. The program on the "Earth computer" should have run correctly, but the unexpected arrival of the Golgafrinchans on prehistoric Earth caused input errors into the system-computing the wrong question (because of the garbage in, garbage out rule). Six times nine is actually fifty-four the answer is deliberately wrong for that question because the question was miscomputed. "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe." Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" He attempts to discover The Ultimate Question by extracting it from his brainwave patterns, as abusively suggested by Ford Prefect, when a Scrabble-playing caveman spells out "forty two".
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Lacking a real question, the mice (pan-dimensional beings) decide not to go through the whole process again and instead settle for the out-of-thin-air suggestion "How many roads must a man walk down?", a lyric from Bob Dylan's song " Blowin' in the Wind".Īt the end of the radio series, the television series and the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur Dent, having escaped the Earth's destruction, potentially has some of the computational matrix in his brain. In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, this reason is revealed to have been a ruse: the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists, led by Gag Halfrunt, who feared for the loss of their careers when the Ultimate Question became known. The process is hindered after eight million years by the unexpected arrival on Earth of the Golgafrinchans, and is then ruined completely, five minutes prior to completion, when the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons to supposedly make way for a new hyperspace bypass. The computer is revealed as being the planet Earth, with its pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of white lab mice to observe its running. This new computer will incorporate living beings into the " computational matrix" and will run for ten million years. When asked to produce the Ultimate Question, Deep Thought says that it cannot however, it can help to design an even more powerful computer that can. Deep Thought points out that the answer seems meaningless because the beings who instructed it never knew what the question was. It takes Deep Thought 7 + 1⁄ 2 million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. In the radio series and the first novel, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything
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