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42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta
Venusian Treen writes "In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. The gist is that energy levels in the nucleus of heavy atoms can tell us about the distribution of zeros in Riemann's zeta function - and hence where to find prime numbers. This article discusses this connection, and introduces two physisicts who tell us 'why the answer to life, the universe and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function should be 42.'"
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I just hope I lose my virginity by the time I'm 42 ...
someone found the question? What was it?
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[Reimann] realized that the places where the zeta function outputs zero ... hold crucial information about the nature of the primes. Mathematicians call these significant places the zeros.
Man, those mathematicians are really clever at naming stuff. Next thing you know, they're going to call the places where the function outputs ones, "ones". Will it never end?
The ratio of funny to informative posts is ridiculous. Why aren't discussions on Slashdot informative; seems like half the replies are jokes that don't really further the conversation.
I mean, "42" really being the answer could be considered infinitely improbable.
I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'
Well it was one of the input parameters, wasn't it? Only thing missing was if he'd drawn it from a sack of scrabble letters. Oh wait, you don't know... *nabs another bit of cheese* This Internet thing is great you know, never see who's at the other end. Well, that ape decendant that lives here should be home soon, guess I better go.
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4, 8, 15, 16, and 23 are also significant. Hey, wait a minute......
Yes, you're almost there ....
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"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Indeed. Zeta? Call me when 42 is the answer to Alpha and Omega. Then I'll be impressed.
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Prior to this breakthrough, the evidence for a connection between quantum physics and the primes was based solely on interesting statistical comparisons. But mathematicians are very suspicious of statistics. We like things to be exact. Keating and Snaith had used physics to make a very precise prediction that left no room for the power of statistics to see patterns where there are none.
So of course they believe something from quantum mechanics which everyone knows has no relationship to statistics?
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I dated a girl from Grand Rapids for a while... area code 616.
So yes, 616 *is* the number of the Beast. At least, once you add in 7 other digits.
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42! hahahaha, you so asked for it
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13.37 * Pi = 42 Try to beat that!
Only applied mathematicians require scientific rigor. Pure mathematicians don't let the real world get them down so they require only logic.
The Tao begot one. One begot two. Two begot three.
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And three begot the ten thousand things.
With no exaggeration of any kind, I have no idea what you just said.
Research shows that most numbers are really, really, really big.
Most people don't even think inside the box.
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke.
And thus scientology was born... oh wait that is a different thread.