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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're standing so close to the chalkboard they had to move the writing around their heads

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling 12 points 1 year ago

Lmao I didn't even notice that. I suppose that's just good design, if it looked natural at a glance.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hrm, they seem off by a little, maybe... 42 units?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is in addition to life & everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Given universe is 0, then life and everything will be 42 but it's also possible that the unspecified operator between universe and the rest (life and everything) is dependent on parts of the universe equation and might be something else

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't get it (the joke and the purpose of the universe)

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It all equals zero. There is no purpose or meaning. Optimistic take: because that's not what math does. Pessimistic take: because there is none.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Optimist take: Because there is none! (whoo)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Optimistic take: because they just rearranged it to equal 0 by subtracting something from both sides as is often done in "these quantities are conserved" types of equations in physics!

So we still don't know the true purpose...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I took it to be contrasting the "thrill of discovery" with doing math that would be boring and tedious to most people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn, what would you even do with that information if you figured it out at 10:05am on a workday?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Laws of thermodynamics ensure that it's a zero sum game at best.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Is this what's meant by the null hypothesis?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Zoom in on that zero, boys! Show us those vacuum quantum fluctuations!