query: what is the answer to ultimate question of life, universe and everything?

title: Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

text: the off-topic section of an Internet forum and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question. Google Calculator will give the result to "the answer to life the universe and everything" as 42, as will Wolfram's Computational Knowledge Engine. Similarly, DuckDuckGo also gives the result of "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything" as 42. In the online community Second Life, there is a section on a sim called "42nd

text: This is similar to the book where the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in "The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It was later incorporated into the covers of all five reprinted "Hitchhiker's" novels in the United States. Adams has described the puzzle as depicting the number 42 in ten different ways. Six possible questions are: The number 42 and the phrase, "Life, the universe, and everything" have attained cult status on the Internet. "Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for

title: The Theory of Everything (Ayreon album)

text: segments is 42, which is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", recognized by Lucassen as a direct reference. On 18 December 2013 Lucassen released on YouTube a free version of the album with all vocals sung by Waarbroek. "The Theory of Everything" was a commercial success and received acclaim from audience and critics, who praised its instrumental sections, songwriting, story, and the performances of the cast. After the release of "01011001", Lucassen decided to temporarily put Ayreon on hold, because he was not inspired to continue and

title: Meaning of life

text: in nature, questioning the importance we place on life ("Always Look on the Bright Side of Life") and other meaning-of-life related questioning. John Cleese also had his sit-com character Basil Fawlty contemplating the futility of his own existence in Fawlty Towers. In Douglas Adams' popular comedy book, movie, television, and radio series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is given the numeric solution "42", after seven and a half million years of calculation by a giant supercomputer called Deep Thought. When this answer is met with confusion and

title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)

text: and President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox; a woman Dent met at a party, Trisha "Trillian" McMillan; and a depressed robot, Marvin. Beeblebrox is searching for the mythical planet of Magrathea and the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything", which it turns out is "42". Dent and the others find themselves at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, then held captive aboard a Golgafrincham ship about to crash-land on prehistoric Earth. In series two, Zaphod, wanted for stealing the "Heart of Gold" amongst other misdemeanors, attempts to contact the editor of "The Guide"

text: Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre(s) and members of the scientific community. 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. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Deep Thought points

title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)

text: stolen the ship along with Tricia "Trillian" McMillan, an Earth woman whom Arthur had met previously, and Marvin the Paranoid Android, a clinically depressed robot that constantly complains about life. Zaphod explains that he is seeking the planet Magrathea, where he believes he can discover the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything to match with the disappointing answer given by the supercomputer Deep Thought: "42". Zaphod stole the Heart of Gold to use its improbability drive to get to Magrathea through trial and error. During one of these attempts, they end up on the planet Viltvodle VI. Zaphod

title: Mythology of Lost

text: represent Jacob's potential successor. Some of these numbers are associated with major characters in Lost while other major characters are surprisingly connected to others on the list. In his last talk to the survivors of the crash, Jacob reveals they are "..just numbers." In an interview with Lostpedia, producer David Fury confirmed the number was a reference to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in which the answer to "What is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything?" is 42. Lindelof has professed to be a fan of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which details the 23

title: Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

text: looking for planets yet to make interstellar contact, find some isolated spot, land in front of some credulous soul they know no one will ever believe, strut up and down in front of them with "silly antennas on their head" and make "beep-beep" noises at them. Ford regards this practice as "rather childish, really". Although often mistaken for a planet, Earth is in reality the greatest supercomputer of all time, designed by the second-greatest supercomputer of all time, Deep Thought, to calculate the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything (to which the answer is 42). It was built

text: 42 expressed in base 13). 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." 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

title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases

text: a huge overdose. He was then told to tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth"—a horrifying fate. The court-house was abandoned, with him in place. He has apparently stopped telling it ("there not nearly as much of it as people imagine"), but is still finding much of it, particularly frogs and Arthur Dent, hilarious. They ask him if he knows the Question to the Ultimate Answer of 42. He explains that knowledge of the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive and that if both were to be known the universe would be replaced by something

title: Meaning of life

text: Life, The Universe, And Everything remains unknown. While 6 x 9 would be written as 42 in the tridecimal numeral system, author Douglas Adams claimed that this was mere coincidence and completely serendipitous. In "The Simpsons" episode "Homer the Heretic", a representation of God agrees to tell Homer what the meaning of life is, but the show's credits begin to roll just as he starts to say what it is. In "Red vs. Blue" season 1 episode 1 the character Simmons asks Grif the question "Why are we here?" and is a major line in the series. In "Bill and

title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)

text: space, only to be rescued by Zaphod Beeblebrox's ship, the "Heart of Gold". Zaphod, a semi-cousin of Ford, is the President of the Galaxy, and is accompanied by a depressed robot named Marvin and a human woman by the name of Trillian. The five embark on a journey to find the legendary planet known as Magrathea, known for selling luxury planets. Once there, they are taken into the planet's centre by a man named Slartibartfast. There, they learn that a supercomputer named Deep Thought, who determined the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything to be the number 42,

title: H2g2

text: Douglas Adams. The DNA technology was introduced a few months after the BBC takeover and is still used for BBC blogs, messageboards and commenting systems. Before that there was a technology which was written mostly in Perl. Adams was involved in the website in its early days. His account name was DNA, and his user number was 42, a reference to the joke in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. Adams's legacy is still felt on h2g2, though it is not a fan site. H2g2

title: Wiener–Araya graph

text: its order (42) appears to be the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a Douglas Adams novel. Wiener–Araya graph The Wiener–Araya graph is, in graph theory, a graph on 42 vertices with 67 edges. It is hypohamiltonian, which means that it does not itself have a Hamiltonian cycle but every graph formed by removing a single vertex from it is Hamiltonian. It is also planar. Hypohamiltonian graphs were first studied by Sousselier in "Problèmes plaisants et délectables" (1963). In 1967, Lindgren builds an infinite sequence of hypohamiltonian graphs.

text: on-screen for those games showed 42 "threads of thought," shown as colorful lines spinning around Watson's logo, and that the number was chosen in reference to this meme. The Hitchhiker knitting pattern, designed by Martina Behm, is a scarf with 42 teeth. In "The Flash", Season 4, Episode 1, Cisco in trying to decipher what Barry is writing explicitly says that what Barry says might solve answer to the Life, the Universe and Everything, which Caitlin suggests is 42. In "The X-Files", Fox Mulder lives in apartment 42. This has been acknowledged by the show's creator, Chris Carter, as a

title: 42 (number)

text: 42 (number) 42 (forty-two) is the natural number that succeeds 41 and precedes 43. Forty-two (42) is a pronic number and an abundant number; its prime factorization 2 · 3 · 7 makes it the second sphenic number and also the second of the form (2 · 3 · "r"). Additional properties of the number 42 include: The number 42 is, in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no

title: Mathematical joke

text: concerns the telephone number 867-5309. The mathematical constant 42 appears throughout the Douglas Adams trilogy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where it is portrayed as "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything". This number appears as a fixed value in the TIFF image file format and its derivatives (including for example the ISO standard TIFF/EP) where the content of bytes 2–3 is defined as 42: "An arbitrary but carefully chosen number that further identifies the file as a TIFF file". Calculator spelling is the formation of words and phrases by displaying a number and

title: 42 (school)

text: Silicon Valley opened in summer 2016 in Fremont, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. 42's name is a reference to the science fiction book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" written by British author Douglas Adams: in the book 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. In addition to the two official campuses in Paris, France and Fremont, California, the school model was adopted in Lyon, France, as well as in Romania, South Africa, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Moldova, Belgium, Russia and Morocco with the help and support of 42. Announced on March 26,

title: Ubuntu version history

text: from the traditional schedule of releasing at the end of October to get "the perfect 10", and a playful reference to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", since, in binary, 101010 is equal to the number 42, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything" within the series. It was Canonical's 13th release of Ubuntu. New features included the new Unity interface for the Netbook Edition, a new default photo manager, Shotwell, replacing F-Spot, the ability to purchase applications in the Software Center, and an official Ubuntu font used by default. Support for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat

title: Samantha Cristoforetti

text: personal EVA equipment was lost due to the failed launch of the Orbital Cygnus Orb-3 mission in October 2014, those EVAs were scrapped. That equipment for the ISS crew was on board of the failed Orb-3 mission is clear from the manifest of its cargo, which listed: "Total Cargo: 2,215 kg (With packaging: 2,296 kg) of which EVA Equipment: 66 kg." Cristoforetti has been photographed with references to the "Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy" on her shirt while her crewmate Anton Shkaplerov had a shirt with the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (being 42).

title: Code42

text: plans have been discontinued, with business-focused plans as the only remaining options. Code42 was founded as an IT consulting company in 2001, by Matthew Dornquast, Brian Bispala, and Mitch Coopet. The company's name honors Douglas Adams, who authored "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" and had died that year. In the book, the number 42 is the "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything". Some of Code42's first projects included a redesign of Sun Country Airlines’ website in 2002, a project for the retailer Target Corporation, and the ticket booking engine for Midwest Airlines. Income from the

title: Chromecast

text: and H.264 video compression formats. Radio communication is handled by AzureWave NH–387 Wi-Fi which implements 802.11 b/g/n (2.4 GHz). The device has 512 MB of Micron DDR3L RAM and 2 GB of flash storage. The model number H2G2-42 is likely a reference to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" abbreviation "H2G2"—in the novel, the number 42 is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything." The bundled power adapter bears the model number MST3K-US, likely a reference to the TV series "Mystery Science Theater 3000". The second-generation Chromecast has a disc-shaped body with a short length

title: 25924 Douglasadams

text: in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.210. It has an absolute magnitude of 15.6. As of 2017, no rotational lightcurve of "Douglasadams" has been obtained from photometric observations. The asteroid's rotation period, poles and shape remain unknown. This minor planet was named in memory of English novelist Douglas Adams (1952–2001), because its provisional designation happened to contain the year of his death, his initials, and the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (42), as given in his novel serial "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The official naming citation was published by

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: Life, the Universe and Everything Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ) is the third book in the five-volume "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" science fiction trilogy by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The story was originally outlined by Adams as "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" to be a Tom Baker "Doctor Who" television six-part story, but was rejected by the BBC. It was later considered as a plotline for the second series of the Hitchhiker's TV series, which was never commissioned. A radio adaptation of "Life, the Universe

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: played Arthur Dent in the 2005 movie, recorded a new unabridged edition of the audiobook. Stephen Moore and Douglas Adams used the uncensored UK edition of the text, while both the censored and uncensored versions of the book are available read by Freeman, depending on where they are purchased. Life, the Universe and Everything Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ) is the third book in the five-volume "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" science fiction trilogy by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The story was originally outlined by Adams

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: miss the ground, and allow him to fly. Arthur is able to throw the ball aside and disable the robot in mid-swoop. In the epilogue the characters are taking Arthur to a 'quiet and idyllic planet' when they come across a half-mad journalist. He tells them that he was at a court case and a witness there was given too much of a truth drug and started to tell all truth, which was driving everybody there mad. They go to the courtroom in the hope of learning the question of Life, the Universe and Everything from him. They discover he

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: and was eventually scrapped. Elements of "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" were put into "Life, the Universe and Everything". According to Nick Webb, the writer of Adams's official biography, he claimed that "Douglas's view of the Krikkitmen would be similar to his view of people who resolutely decline to learn what science can tell us about the universe we inhabit." Several of the names and items in the story are references to (or puns on) terms associated with the sport of cricket, with the effect that the sport is jokingly portrayed as having cosmic antiquity and significance. These include the

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: is finished (there was little truth to tell) and he has forgotten it all, except that knowledge of the Ultimate Question and Ultimate Answer is mutually exclusive. He then attempts to tell Arthur where God's last message to His creation is, though dies seemingly before Arthur is able to memorize the location. In the end Arthur goes to live on the planet Krikkit where he becomes a more skillful flier and learns bird language. The creation of Krikkit originally comes from "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen", a film treatment of the "Doctor Who" series. The treatment did not get far

title: Life, the Universe, & Everything

text: Life, the Universe, & Everything Life, the Universe, & Everything: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy is an academic conference held annually since 1983 in Provo, Utah. It is the longest-running science fiction and fantasy convention in Utah, and one of the largest and longest-running academic science fiction conferences. An annual proceedings volume, "Deep Thoughts" (named after the computer Deep Thought from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), publishes the academic papers and main addresses given at the event. The symposium was named, jokingly, after the Douglas Adams novel "Life, the Universe and Everything". The

title: War Is the Answer

text: it a lot in interviews. In fact, somebody just said to me: "If war is the answer, then what is the question?", and I guess the answer to that is "life"! Basically, you're fighting against something or other right from the start – fighting for survival with pretty much everything against you, and there are occasions when the only really appropriate response is to punch someone in the mouth! It's a pretty involved subject once you really start to think about it, and this record covers it all – the deeper meaning and of course the more shallow one too!

title: A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy

text: state that many of the answers given in the book are "little gems of science writing". "The Science Teacher" summarizes by stating that each question is likely to be thought of by a student, and that "the answers are informative, well constructed, and thorough". The book covers information about the planets, the Earth, the Universe, practical astronomy, history, and awkward questions such as astronomy in the Bible, UFOs, and aliens. Also covered are subjects such as the Big Bang, comprehension of large numbers, and the Moon illusion. A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy A Question and Answer Guide to

title: Life, the Universe, & Everything

text: it was held at Utah Valley University, and in 2014, it moved to the Provo Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in downtown Provo. The "Leading Edge" science fiction and fantasy magazine was started by these same students, all members of a 1980 creative writing class at BYU. This is a list of guests of honor (in bold) and notable special guests. Life, the Universe, & Everything Life, the Universe, & Everything: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy is an academic conference held annually since 1983 in Provo, Utah. It is the longest-running science fiction and

title: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

text: position, Trillian and Zaphod sneak out and fly the "Heart of Gold" away. The teleporter has meanwhile sent Arthur and Ford to the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B, a colonial transport ship of fools - banished from their home planet by their intellectual superiors to colonize elsewhere - which crash-lands on prehistoric Earth. They assume (falsely, it turns out) that the bumbling travellers are the real ancestors of modern humans. Arthur attempts to determine the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything by reaching into a Scrabble bag made from Ford's towel and pulling out letters

title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases

text: portion of the episode removed from CD releases. Cast The episode begins with a recap of the events of the series so far, before moving to a conversation where Slartibartfast explains that mice are really "the protrusions into our dimension of vast hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings", and that they commissioned the Earth to be built. He plays Arthur some recordings explaining the historical events. This race of pan-dimensional beings had constructed a great computer, called Deep Thought, to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. It did, after seven and a half million years, have the answer to

text: from memory with most people believing it to be just a myth. Amongst the clients who asked for planets to be created were a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who asked the Magratheans to create the Earth which, in addition to being a planet, was a super-computer designed to calculate the ultimate question to the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. Amongst the people who worked on it was Slartibartfast, a coastal designer who won an award for his work on Norway's fjords. The surface of the planet appears to be dead, described as "blighted", with the Magratheans

text: A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy A Question and Answer Guide to Astronomy is a book about astronomy and cosmology, and is intended for a general audience. The book was written by Pierre-Yves Bely, Carol Christian, and Jean-Rene Roy, and published in English by Cambridge University Press in 2010. It was originally written in French. The content within the book is written using a question and answer format. It contains some 250 questions, which "The Science Teacher" states each are answered with a "concise and well-formulated essay that is informative and readable." "The Science Teacher" review goes on to

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: To their surprise, they find that the people seem to lack any desire to continue the war, and are directed to the robot and spaceship facilities in orbit about the planet. With Zaphod and Marvin's help, the group is able to infiltrate the facilities. Trillian deduces that the Krikkiters have been manipulated, reasoning that the people of Krikkit could not simultaneously be smart enough to develop their ultimate weapon—a bomb that could destroy every star in the universe—while also being stupid enough not to realize that this weapon would also destroy them. The characters discover that the true force behind

title: Life, the Universe, & Everything

text: roots of the "Life, the Universe, & Everything" (LTUE) and other science fiction efforts at Brigham Young University (BYU) began with a one-day symposium on science fiction held on January 20, 1976. Four years later, Orson Scott Card gave a speech in 1980 at the university about morality in writing, which showed some of the students and faculty that a serious, academic forum for discussion of science fiction writing was a possibility at BYU, but there weren't enough students interested in trying to make things work at that time. This changed in February 1982 when Ben Bova was invited to

title: The Answer (Steven Universe)

text: more. Having difficulty getting used to her body, Garnet tumbles down a hill into Pearl and Rose. Rose welcomes Garnet and encourages her to talk about how she feels. Garnet peppers Rose with questions about Ruby, Sapphire, and their fusion, but Rose tells Garnet that she already is "the answer" she seeks to all her questions. In the present, as Garnet finishes her story, Steven asks her what the answer was. She tells him: "love". Episodes of "Steven Universe" are written and storyboarded by a single team. "The Answer" was written by Lamar Abrams and Katie Mitroff, and directed by

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: Ultimate fate of the universe The ultimate fate of the universe is a topic in physical cosmology, whose theoretical restrictions allow possible scenarios for the evolution and ultimate fate of the universe to be described and evaluated. Based on available observational evidence, deciding the fate and evolution of the universe have now become valid cosmological questions, being beyond the mostly untestable constraints of mythological or theological beliefs. Many possible dark futures have been predicted by rival scientific hypotheses, including that the universe might have existed for a finite and infinite duration, or towards explaining the manner and circumstances of its

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: of matter, radiation, dark matter, and dark energy to the critical density. More concretely, competing scenarios are evaluated against data on galaxy clustering and distant supernovae, and on the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Ultimate fate of the universe The ultimate fate of the universe is a topic in physical cosmology, whose theoretical restrictions allow possible scenarios for the evolution and ultimate fate of the universe to be described and evaluated. Based on available observational evidence, deciding the fate and evolution of the universe have now become valid cosmological questions, being beyond the mostly untestable constraints of mythological or

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: and Everything" was recorded in 2003 under the guidance of Dirk Maggs, starring the surviving members of the cast of the original "Hitchhiker's" radio series. Adams himself, at his own suggestion, makes a cameo appearance; due to his death before production began on the series, this was achieved by sampling his character's dialogue from an audio book of the novel read by Adams that was published in the 1990s. The radio adaptation debuted on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004. After being stranded on pre-historic Earth after the events in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", Arthur Dent

title: Question and Answer (novel)

text: expedition was being mounted to determine if the planet was suitable for colonization, and to find out what happened to the first expedition. Anderson finished his story, and Asimov finished a story called "Sucker Bait", but Blish (or Kidd) never completed the third story, and the proposed book never saw print. Anderson was able to sell "Question and Answer" to "Astounding" (where it appeared a few months after "Sucker Bait") and later to Ace Books. John Lorenzen is an astronomer from Lunopolis who is recruited by the Lagrange Institute for the second expedition to Troas. At this time, Earth is

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: continue to expand forever. Factors that need to be considered in determining the universe's origin and ultimate fate include: the average motions of galaxies, the shape and structure of the universe, and the amount of dark matter and dark energy that the universe contains. It is possible that the destruction of the universe may entail the complete cessation of time and reality. The theoretical scientific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity. General relativity can be employed to describe the universe on the largest possible scale. There are many

title: The Last Question

text: universe) watches the stars flicker out, one by one, as matter and energy ends, and with it, space and time. Humanity asks AC, Multivac's ultimate descendant, which exists in hyperspace beyond the bounds of gravity or time, the entropy question one last time, before the last of humanity merges with AC and disappears. AC is still unable to answer, but continues to ponder the question even after space and time cease to exist. AC ultimately realizes that it has not yet combined all of its available data in every possible combination, and thus begins the arduous process of rearranging and

title: To a Mouse

text: in his trench. Sharon Olds's poem "Sleekit Cowrin also references this poem. In Douglas Adams's "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" series, mice are the physical protrusions into our dimension of a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings who commissioned construction of the Earth to find the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When their plans go wrong they lament that "the best laid plans of mice" don't always work out. The Monty Python sketch 'Word Association' references the first line of the poem, and replaces the simple word "We" with "Wee sleekit cowerin' timorous beastie". Tom

title: Question and Answer (novel)

text: the 1978 Ace Books edition of the story. Further, the outcome of World War III, as well as events in the centuries immediately following the war, is inconsistent between "Question and Answer" and the Psychotechnic League stories. In the book, as noted, the Soviet Union conquered North America and Europe fell into a centuries-long devastation and chaos; conversely, in the Psychotechnic League history, the Soviet Union was totally destroyed, the survivors of its population reduced to the condition of "howling cannibals", while Europe recovered from its war devastation within a single generation. In "Question and Answer" there is no mention

title: Question and Answer (novel)

text: after all. Avery pleads with Lorenzen to help him maintain the deception, but Lorenzen refuses. He wants humanity to expand into the galaxy. Although "Question and Answer" is similar in background to the stories that make up Anderson's Psychotechnic League future history, Anderson himself did not include "Question and Answer" in a timeline of the Psychotechnic League stories that he created to accompany the novella "The Snows of Ganymede" in the Winter 1955 issue of "Startling Stories", even though the story had already been published in "Astounding" by then. He also failed to mention any connection in his introduction to

title: Question and Answer (novel)

text: And in both, the protagonist finally decides to abort these efforts and opt for galactic expansion, even at the cost of instability and uncertainty. Question and Answer (novel) Question and Answer is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson. It originally appeared in the June and July 1954 issues of magazine " Astounding Science Fiction", and was later reprinted in 1956 as part of Ace Double D-199 under the title "Planet of No Return", and again as a stand-alone Ace novel in February 1978 under the original title. Anderson was approached in 1953 by Twayne Press editor Fletcher

title: What Is It?

text: What Is It? What Is It? is a 2005 American surrealist film written, edited, co-produced and directed by Crispin Glover. It stars Crispin Glover and Fairuza Balk and Steven C. Stewart. As of 2008, the film has only been shown at independent theaters, typically accompanied by a question-and-answer session, a one-hour dramatic narration of eight different profusely illustrated books as a slideshow, and a meet-and-greet/book signing with Glover. "What Is It?" is the first entry in a planned trilogy directed by Glover, followed by "It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine." and continued with "It Is Mine". The "adventures" of a

title: Question and Answer (novel)

text: Question and Answer (novel) Question and Answer is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson. It originally appeared in the June and July 1954 issues of magazine " Astounding Science Fiction", and was later reprinted in 1956 as part of Ace Double D-199 under the title "Planet of No Return", and again as a stand-alone Ace novel in February 1978 under the original title. Anderson was approached in 1953 by Twayne Press editor Fletcher Pratt with a story proposal: a scientist would create a world, and then he, Isaac Asimov and James Blish (Asimov thought the third writer

title: What Is Life?

text: causing a net increase in disorder in the Universe. In order to increase the complexity on Earth—as life does—free energy is needed and in this case is provided by the Sun. What Is Life? What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a 1944 science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943, under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. The lectures attracted an audience of about 400, who were warned "that

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: entropy in which everything is evenly distributed and there are no gradients—which are needed to sustain information processing, one form of which is life. The heat death scenario is compatible with any of the three spatial models, but requires that the universe reach an eventual temperature minimum. In the special case of phantom dark energy, which has even more negative pressure than a simple cosmological constant, the density of dark energy increases with time, causing the "rate" of acceleration to increase, leading to a steady increase in the Hubble constant. As a result, all material objects in the universe, starting

title: Expansion of the universe

text: Regardless of the overall shape of the universe, the question of what the universe is expanding into is one which does not require an answer according to the theories which describe the expansion; the way we define space in our universe in no way requires additional exterior space into which it can expand since an expansion of an infinite expanse can happen without changing the infinite extent of the expanse. All that is certain is that the manifold of space in which we live simply has the property that the distances between objects are getting larger as time goes on.

title: A Dream Is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer

text: A Dream Is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer A Dream is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer is the debut studio album by Canadian recording artist Jonny Craig, released on August 18, 2009 via Rise Records. On July 13, Jonny Craig posted two songs from his solo album on his Myspace; "I Still Feel Her, Part III" and "Children of Divorce". On July 16, Jonny Craig Posted 3rd song, Called '7 AM, 2 Bottles And The Wrong Road' from his solo album. An update on the track listing on July 27 revealed that The Pain

text: "Bottled Up Like Smoke", featured on his studio album . A Dream Is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer A Dream is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer is the debut studio album by Canadian recording artist Jonny Craig, released on August 18, 2009 via Rise Records. On July 13, Jonny Craig posted two songs from his solo album on his Myspace; "I Still Feel Her, Part III" and "Children of Divorce". On July 16, Jonny Craig Posted 3rd song, Called '7 AM, 2 Bottles And The Wrong Road' from his solo album. An update on

title: The Answer (Steven Universe)

text: The Answer (Steven Universe) "The Answer" is the 22nd episode of the second season of American animated television series "Steven Universe", which premiered on January 4, 2016 on Cartoon Network. It was written and storyboarded by Lamar Abrams and Katie Mitroff. The episode was viewed by 1.384 million viewers. In this episode, Garnet tells Steven the story of how Ruby and Sapphire met each other, fused to create Garnet, began their romantic relationship, and eventually joined the Crystal Gems. The episode received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation, and was adapted as a best-selling children's book.

title: What Is Life

text: song offers "little overall coherence between words and music". In a 2010 poll to find the "10 Best George Harrison Songs", AOL Radio listeners voted "What Is Life" third behind "My Sweet Lord" and "Blow Away". A similar list by Michael Galluci of Ultimate Classic Rock placed it second (behind "My Sweet Lord"), as Galluci wrote of the track having "a giant pop hook as its guide" as well as "the catchiest chorus Harrison ever penned".<ref name="Gallucci/UCR">Michael Gallucci, "Top 10 George Harrison Songs", Ultimate Classic Rock (retrieved 28 March 2014).</ref> In 2009, Matt Melis of Consequence of Sound listed it

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: of dark energy, a flat universe expands forever but at a continually decelerating rate, with expansion asymptotically approaching zero. With dark energy, the expansion rate of the universe initially slows down, due to the effect of gravity, but eventually increases. The ultimate fate of the universe is the same as an open universe. The fate of the universe is determined by its density. The preponderance of evidence to date, based on measurements of the rate of expansion and the mass density, favors a universe that will continue to expand indefinitely, resulting in the "Big Freeze" scenario below. However, observations are

title: The Answer (Steven Universe)

text: and Tiffany Ford. The book reached no. 7 of the "New York Times" Best Seller List for Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover books on October 2, 2016. "Fusion" praised the book as "a subversive fairy tale that both upends and queers the storybook canon". Like "Fusion", PBS's report described the book as "part of a larger, changing story about how cartoons portray LGBTQ characters for kids." The Answer (Steven Universe) "The Answer" is the 22nd episode of the second season of American animated television series "Steven Universe", which premiered on January 4, 2016 on Cartoon Network. It was written and storyboarded

title: Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

text: Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" () is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the "Berlinische Monatsschrift" ("Berlin Monthly"), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich Biester, Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by the Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner, who was also an official in the Prussian government. Zöllner's question was addressed to a broad intellectual public community, in reply to Biester's essay entitled: "Proposal, not to engage the clergy any longer when marriages are conducted" (April 1783) and a number of leading

title: Question in the Form of an Answer

text: Question in the Form of an Answer Question In The Form Of An Answer is the second studio album by the People Under the Stairs. Recorded following their first world tour, the album was their first release on Om Records (the label would later re-release People Under The Stairs' first album the following year). The release spawned three singles, each selling their entire first pressing run of 15,000 copies, and a second world tour. In 1999, People Under The Stairs signed a four-album deal with Om Records, and the title of their second album, "Question in the Form of an

text: title ("Qu'est-ce que les Lumières?"). Foucault's essay reflected on the contemporary status of the project of enlightenment, inverting much of Kant's reasoning but concluding that enlightenment "still entails work on our limits." Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" () is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the "Berlinische Monatsschrift" ("Berlin Monthly"), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich Biester, Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by the Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner, who was also an official in the Prussian government. Zöllner's question was

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: so as to allow for this possible acceleration, nearly always by invoking dark energy, which in its simplest form is just a positive cosmological constant. In general, dark energy is a catch-all term for any hypothesised field with negative pressure, usually with a density that changes as the universe expands. The current scientific consensus of most cosmologists is that the ultimate fate of the universe depends on its overall shape, how much dark energy it contains, and on the equation of state which determines how the dark energy density responds to the expansion of the universe. Recent observations conclude, from

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: stop the robots from collecting all the components of the Wikkit Gate. Long ago, the peaceful population of the planet of Krikkit, unaware of the rest of the Universe due to a dust cloud that surrounded its solar system, were surprised to find the wreckage of a spacecraft on their planet. Reverse engineering the vessel, they explored past the dust cloud and saw the rest of the Universe, immediately taking a disliking to it and determining it must go. They built a fleet of ships and robots to attack the rest of the Universe in a brutal onslaught known as

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: with galaxies and eventually (in a finite time) all forms, no matter how small, will disintegrate into unbound elementary particles and radiation, ripped apart by the phantom energy force and shooting apart from each other. The end state of the universe is a singularity, as the dark energy density and expansion rate becomes infinite. The Big Crunch hypothesis is a symmetric view of the ultimate fate of the universe. Just as the Big Bang started as a cosmological expansion, this theory assumes that the average density of the universe will be enough to stop its expansion and begin contracting. The

title: It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.

text: stage in Salt Lake City, Utah. Glover has stated that it is "probably the best film [he'll] ever work on in [his] entire career." This film premiered at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah on January 23, 2007 for the Midnight screening as an official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Crispin Glover and David Brothers were in attendance, as well as many of the cast and crew. Glover and Brothers introduced the film and conducted a lengthy question and answer period after the film. It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. It is Fine! Everything Is Fine. is

title: Question in the Form of an Answer

text: hidden bonus track occurring at the 6-minute mark. Question in the Form of an Answer Question In The Form Of An Answer is the second studio album by the People Under the Stairs. Recorded following their first world tour, the album was their first release on Om Records (the label would later re-release People Under The Stairs' first album the following year). The release spawned three singles, each selling their entire first pressing run of 15,000 copies, and a second world tour. In 1999, People Under The Stairs signed a four-album deal with Om Records, and the title of their

title: Meaning of life

text: Meaning of life The meaning of life, or the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general. Many other related questions include: "Why are we here?", "What is life all about?", or "What is the purpose of existence?" There have been a large number of proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The search for life's meaning has produced much philosophical, scientific, theological, and metaphysical speculation throughout history. Different people and cultures believe different things for the answer to this question. The meaning

title: Sell Me the Answer

text: use one trader per question. Once the player has settled on an answer, they must "lock-down" on that answer using an oversized plunger on the podium. Jones then tells the player if they are right or wrong. Once a player answers all 10 questions correctly, they face another choice: They may take all the money acquired so far (the sum of all question values, including the £50 start, minus the cost of all trades) or can choose to gamble everything on the Jackpot question. On this question, no help may be sought from the traders, so the player must answer

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: the Krikkit Wars, but were eventually defeated. Realizing that the Krikkit population would not be satisfied alongside the existence of the rest of the Universe, it was decided to envelop the system in a Slo-Time envelope, allowing Krikkit to survive long after the rest of the universe has ended; the Wikkit Gate was the key to the envelope. (This also explains why Earth is ignored by the rest of the galaxy; any species that would turn a memory of a horrific war into a sport isn't worth bothering with.) However, one ship carrying a troop of robots from Krikkit avoided

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: do not meet are never equidistant; they have a point of least distance and otherwise grow apart. The geometry of such a universe is hyperbolic. Even without dark energy, a negatively curved universe expands forever, with gravity negligibly slowing the rate of expansion. With dark energy, the expansion not only continues but accelerates. The ultimate fate of an open universe is either universal heat death, the "Big Freeze", or the "Big Rip", where the acceleration caused by dark energy eventually becomes so strong that it completely overwhelms the effects of the gravitational, electromagnetic and strong binding forces. Conversely, a "negative"

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: this idea evades heat death because of an expansion of the branes that dilutes entropy accumulated in the previous cycle. The Big Bounce is a theorized scientific model related to the beginning of the known universe. It derives from the oscillatory universe or cyclic repetition interpretation of the Big Bang where the first cosmological event was the result of the collapse of a previous universe. According to one version of the Big Bang theory of cosmology, in the beginning the universe was infinitely dense. Such a description seems to be at odds with everything else in physics, and especially quantum

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: possible solutions to the equations of general relativity, and each solution implies a possible ultimate fate of the universe. Alexander Friedmann proposed several solutions in 1922, as did Georges Lemaître in 1927. In some of these solutions, the universe has been expanding from an initial singularity which was, essentially, the Big Bang. In 1931, Edwin Hubble published his conclusion, based on his observations of Cepheid variable stars in distant galaxies, that the universe was expanding. From then on, the "beginning" of the universe and its possible "end" have been the subjects of serious scientific investigation. In 1927, Georges Lemaître set

title: Question in the Form of an Answer

text: Answer", came to them while driving up to San Francisco to meet with the Om staff. Om offered them a cash advance on the record deal, and the group immediately went to a local record store, Groove Merchant, and used the money to buy a large number of records, several of which would contain samples that wound up being used on the record. Planned as a logical extension of their first record, "Question in the Form of an Answer" opened with the same music sample that the previous album closed on. Also similar to the first album, "Question..." was self-recorded

title: The Last Question

text: combining every last bit of information it has gained throughout the eons and through its fusion with humanity. Eventually AC discovers the answer, but has nobody to report it to; the universe is already dead. It therefore decides to answer by demonstration, since that will also create someone to give the answer to. The story ends with AC's pronouncement, It subsequently played, as well, at the: The Last Question "The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of "Science Fiction Quarterly" and was anthologized in the

title: Life, the Universe and Everything

text: the war has been the supercomputer Hactar. Previously built to serve a war-faring species, Hactar was tasked to build a supernova-bomb that would link the cores of every sun in the Universe together at the press of a button and cause the end of the Universe. Hactar purposely created a dud version of the weapon instead, causing his creators to pulverize him into dust, which thus became the dust cloud around Krikkit. However, Hactar was still able to function, though at a much weaker level. Trillian and Arthur speak to Hactar in a virtual space that he creates for them

text: the computer behind the Supernova Bomb and there is another attempt to find the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything. In the fourth series, Dent discovers that Earth has been recreated again and meets Fenchurch, the woman of his dreams. Meanwhile, a spaceship lands in Knightsbridge, God's Last Message to his Creation is discovered, and Marvin makes his last appearance. In the fifth series, a tenth planet in the solar system is discovered and Ford discovers that "The Guide" has become a much more sinister place to work. Arthur Dent discovers that he is a father and his

title: The Last Question

text: courses of seven historic settings, beginning in 2061. In each of the first six scenes a different character presents the computer with the same question; namely, how the threat to human existence posed by the heat death of the universe can be averted. The question was: "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?" This is equivalent to asking: "Can the workings of the second law of thermodynamics (used in the story as the increase of the entropy of the universe) be reversed?" Multivac's only response after much "thinking" is: "INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER."

title: Question and Answer (novel)

text: if not stopped, cause "another war which humanity may not survive" (as described in "Marius"). On these terms, Anderson is obviously on the side of psychotechnics and the characters representing the author's point of view act accordingly. In "Question and Answer", however, psychotechnics – having succeeded in establishing peace and stability – sets itself squarely against spaceward expansion, seeking to keep humanity within the protecting cocoon of the Solar System and prevent its spread throughout the Galaxy. With this at stake, Anderson (and the character representing his point of view) turns against psychotechnics and for galactic expansion. This is inevitable,

title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

text: Eoin Colfer, who wrote the sixth book in the Hitchhiker's series in 2008–09, used this latter concept but none of the plot ideas from "The Salmon of Doubt". In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and

title: Ultimate Nullifier

text: Nullifier, stating the item alone could destroy an entire universe. In Marvel Adventures: The Avengers #26, Spider-Man theorizes that the Nullifier does not actually destroy things, or it would be called an "Ultimate Annihilator." He believes that it instead alters the laws of probability, changing the universe so that "everything has an equal likelihood of affecting everything else." The theory turns out to be right when Spider-Man activates the Nullifier in an attempt to stop Galactus. During the "Ultimate Extinction" storyline in the Ultimate Marvel universe, Reed Richards created a massively up-sized, towering version of the very same portal device

title: The Last Question

text: The story jumps forward in time into later eras of human and scientific development. In each of these eras someone decides to ask the ultimate "last question" regarding the reversal and decrease of entropy. Each time, in each new era, Multivac's descendant is asked this question, and finds itself unable to solve the problem. Each time all it can answer is an (increasingly sophisticated, linguistically): "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER." In the last scene, the god-like descendant of humanity (the unified mental process of over a trillion, trillion, trillion humans that have spread throughout the

text: solitary confinement after an overdose of truth-drug caused him to tell the Truth in its absolute and final form, causing anyone to hear it to go insane. The planet's Arglebard Forest provided the wood to build the Argabuthon Chamber of Law. In the novel "Life, the Universe and Everything," the crew of the "Heart of Gold" visit Prak in an unsuccessful attempt to learn the Ultimate Question. An Earthlike planet on which Arthur Dent lived for a short time during the events of the novel "Mostly Harmless", Bartledan is inhabited by Bartledanians, a race that appears human but only physically.

text: the native cavemen**, becoming the ancestors of humanity and thereby altering and distorting the course of the great experiment to find the question for the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, or so Ford Prefect presumes. A lot of them didn't make it through the winter three years prior to Arthur Dent's reunion with Ford Prefect, and the few who remained in the spring said they needed a holiday and set out on a raft. History says they must have survived. People from Golgafrincham are called "Golgafrinchans". In some versions of , the planet is also referred to as

title: The Question (Steven Universe)

text: The Question (Steven Universe) "The Question" is the 21st episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series "Steven Universe". It first aired on July 4, 2018 on Cartoon Network. It was directed by Joe Johnston and Liz Artinian and written and storyboarded by Miki Brewster and Jeff Liu. The episode attracted media attention after it aired because it featured the first same-sex marriage proposal in Western children's animation. The episode aired as the third episode of a "Stevenbomb", a sequence of five episodes that aired one each day from July 2 to July 6, 2018. In the

title: The Question (Steven Universe)

text: in animated series. The Question (Steven Universe) "The Question" is the 21st episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series "Steven Universe". It first aired on July 4, 2018 on Cartoon Network. It was directed by Joe Johnston and Liz Artinian and written and storyboarded by Miki Brewster and Jeff Liu. The episode attracted media attention after it aired because it featured the first same-sex marriage proposal in Western children's animation. The episode aired as the third episode of a "Stevenbomb", a sequence of five episodes that aired one each day from July 2 to July 6,

title: Marvin the Paranoid Android

text: lullaby, and thought it should have been released. In the radio series, Stephen Moore sings the words to a tune resembling "Abendsegen" from Humperdinck's opera "Hansel and Gretel". The song was performed at the very end of the 2012 live radio show. In the episode "Sibling Tsunami" of the animated series "My Life as a Teenage Robot", when asked what's wrong, XJ-7, a chronically depressed robot character, replied: "The usual, life, the universe, everything", a reference not only to Marvin, but the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", a central tenet of the series' storyline (as well as

title: The Machine Question

text: of general ethics and that the book's questions point out that "good, critical philosophical reflection on machines is not only about how we should cope with machines, but also about how we (should) think and what role technology plays (and should play) in this thinking." A review in "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews" by Colin Allen criticized some of Gunkel's methodology and the indecisiveness of his ultimate answer to the machine question, but also acknowledged that the book "succeeded in connecting the ethics of robots and AI to a much broader ethical discussion than has been represented in the literature on

title: Theory of everything (philosophy)

text: of equations. He wrote, "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" In "The Price of an Ultimate Theory", originally published in 2000, Nicholas Rescher specifies what he sees as the principal properties of a Theory of Everything and describes an apparent impasse on the road to such a theory. First, he takes as a presupposition the principle of sufficient reason, which in his formulation states that every fact "t" has an explanation "t"': where E predicates explanation, so that "t<nowiki>'</nowiki>" E "t" denotes ""t"' explains "t"". Next, he asserts that

title: Human Universe

text: this leads him to a deeper question – why does our universe seem to have been set up with just the right rules to create us? In a dizzying conclusion Brian unpacks this question, revealing the very latest understanding of how the universe came to be this way, and in doing so offers a radical new answer to why we are here. First broadcast: 9:00 pm, 21 Oct 2014 on BBC Two Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life – could it exist and will humans ever find it? Brian discusses the

title: Ford Prefect (character)

text: such as the search for the question to the ultimate answer of "life, the universe and everything". Ford is approximately 200 years old, as supported by the books. When, in the first novel, Zaphod steals the spaceship "Heart of Gold", it is on Zaphod's two-hundredth birthday. It is later mentioned that Ford and Zaphod attended school together, even having some of the same classes, which would indicate that they are roughly the same age. He had originally planned to spend a week on Earth doing research for the "Guide", but wound up being stranded there for 15 years prior to

title: The Take Off and Landing of Everything

text: of Everything" concentrates on what Elbow do best: Northern snug-philosopher wisdom...buoyed by music that's subtly expansive and adventurous". "Q"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Tom Doyle hailed the album, saying, "These 10 magnificent songs see the singer and lyricist trying to get his head around life, death, love, the universe and what he calls 'the mysteries of the human heart'... Always musically sure-footed and prog-minded – less, of course, in terms of never-ending solos; more in the sense that you never know what's up next sonically – here Elbow stretch themselves musically without tearing up their original blueprint... Topping even "The Seldom Seen Kid", "The

title: Google

text: search engine calculator provides the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". When searching the word "recursion", the spell-checker's result for the properly spelled word is exactly the same word, creating a recursive link. When searching for the word "anagram," meaning a rearrangement of letters from one word to form other valid words, Google's suggestion feature displays "Did you mean: nag a ram?" In Google Maps, searching for directions between places separated by large bodies of water, such as Los Angeles and Tokyo, results in instructions to

title: Ultimate fate of the universe

text: universe would remain static. After Hubble announced his conclusion that the universe was expanding, Einstein wrote that his cosmological constant was "the greatest blunder of my life." An important parameter in fate of the universe theory is the density parameter, omega (formula_1), defined as the average matter density of the universe divided by a critical value of that density. This selects one of three possible geometries depending on whether formula_1 is equal to, less than, or greater than formula_3. These are called, respectively, the flat, open and closed universes. These three adjectives refer to the overall geometry of the universe,

title: What Is Life

text: of "What Is Life" on his 2005 tribute CD "Something for George". "What Is Life" was performed live at George Fest 2014 by "Weird Al" Yankovic. The recording is available on YouTube. The following musicians are believed to have played on "What Is Life": What Is Life "What Is Life" is a song by the English musician George Harrison, released on his 1970 triple album "All Things Must Pass". In many countries, it was issued as the second single from the album, in February 1971, becoming a top-ten hit in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, and topping singles charts

title: Theory of everything (philosophy)

text: Theory of everything (philosophy) In philosophy, a theory of everything or ToE is an ultimate, all-encompassing explanation or description of nature or reality. Adopting the term from physics, where the search for a theory of everything is ongoing, philosophers have discussed the viability of the concept and analyzed its properties and implications. Among the questions to be addressed by a philosophical theory of everything are: "Why is reality understandable?" "Why are the laws of nature as they are?" "Why is there anything at all?" The "system building" style of metaphysics attempts to answer "all" the important questions in a coherent

title: The Answer (album)

text: covered as club versions. The success of the single in Europe led to the album being re-released in Europe as "What a Life" the next year. All tracks composed by Christian P. Schneider and Don Oriolo; except where indicated The Answer (album) The Answer is the sixteenth album by singer-songwriter Gloria Gaynor. It was released in France on October 24, 1997. A version with a slightly different track list was released the following year in Germany, under the title What a Life. "The Answer" includes the singles "Oh, What a Life", "Rippin' It Up", "Perfect World" and "Set Me Free".

title: Earth in science fiction

text: of merciless editing of his original draft has reduced his version considerably, now reading "Mostly harmless". Dent also learns that the Earth was originally constructed by the inhabitants of the planet Magrathea, as a giant supercomputer built to find the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, The Universe and Everything. The computer was so large that it was often mistaken for a planet, and that it was destroyed five minutes before the program was due to complete (after ten million years of running). It also mentions that humans are descended from the passengers of an ark full of unwanted