Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!kcarroll From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: More questions that are not the ultimate question Message-ID: <3526@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 21:44:51 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3526 Posted: Tue Feb 7 21:44:51 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 21:44:51 EST References: <16125@sri-arpa.UUCP>, <125@looking.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19 * Brad, just because, once both the ultimate question and answer to Life, the Universe etc. are known, the universe will be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable, it doesn't necessarily follow that once the question is stated, the universe will be destroyed, or that anybody about to state it must perforce die before finishing it. First, >somebody< must first realize that the question goes with the answer (just because a grade 3 kid has heard the question "what's 6*9", and has seen the number "42", that doesn't mean that he >knows< that "6*9=42"). Secondly, the even more bizarre and inexplicable universe may be one exactly like ours, with all of us in it, not realizing that anything has changed, except that the answer to the ultimate question is something even more bizarre and inexplicable (or more common and mundane!) than 42. -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll