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Post by rialvestro on Nov 7, 2010 6:17:01 GMT -5
The Universe is Infinite. Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact. Really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real wow that's big size.
The population of the universe is none.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds but that not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the population of the entire universe must also be zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
At this point I have two choices. Either I can send this back in time so that I wrote it first and sue the original writer for copy right infringement but then I'd have to wait for time travel to be invented or I can do the far easier thing and just admit this is all a reference to Douglas Adams who according to his own words doesn't exist anyway and is just a figment of my deranged imagination. Of course I don't really exist either and I'm just a figment of my own deranged imagination so therefore no one exists.
You may now talk amongst your nonexistent selves as to the genius of Douglas Adams or debate about weather or not I have lost my marbles, your choice.
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Post by Kevak on Nov 7, 2010 6:41:25 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2010 7:00:21 GMT -5
What you have said implies that the average population of all of the worlds is zero, not that the actual population of all of the worlds (and therefore the universe) is zero.
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Post by rialvestro on Nov 7, 2010 8:26:22 GMT -5
What you have said implies that the average population of all of the worlds is zero, not that the actual population of all of the worlds (and therefore the universe) is zero. Quoted, not said. Douglas Adams said it. BTW the real reason I posted this is because I've just found the radio series of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I read the book, out of order, back in high school. For some reason my high school only had copies of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Life, the Universe, and Everything." (The first and third book in the series.) I didn't find a copy of "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" till a year after high school where I discovered one of my co-workers had a copy of "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which is all 5 books in a single book along with an extra short story titled "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe". Some time after this the movie came out in theaters which I watched and hated mostly because I was very disgusted and disappointed by what they did with Zaphod's heads. (That being the flip up head gimic rather than two side by side heads.) Some time after that the original BBC TV series was released on DVD which I watched and hated mostly because the actress who plays Trillian is the reason blonds are stereotyped as being stupid. The radio series however, so far, seems to be closest to the book which I loved and one of the episodes of the original BBC Radio 4 production of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy mentions that Zaphod Beeblebrox appeared in "No Sex Please, We're Amoeboid Zingatularians" at the Brantisvogan Starhouse. The title "No Sex Please, We're Amoeboid Zingatularians" is of course a spoof of "No Sex Please, We're British" which I was in about a year ago without even realizing it was referenced in the radio version of my favorite book.
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Post by Alex on Nov 7, 2010 8:56:48 GMT -5
That's just the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. There is no way to prove we exist or do not exist. On our level of conscience, we do exist. However, looking at it the way you did or Douglas or whoever first wrote that, we apparently don't exist. I still think we exist. You guys think too damn much. Not even I have had this cross my mind, and I think a lot.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 7, 2010 10:26:19 GMT -5
I exist because if I do not exist I cannot think that I do or do not exist. I have self because I am the product of my own deranged imagination. Without self, my imagination would not exist, would not be deranged, and be incapable of postulating myself.
Anyways, the probability of life existing is 0, but the author you're quoting uses probability to say that nearly impossible events (events with a probability of 0) never happen (which is false). His argument is flawed in his basic understanding of statistics.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2010 10:32:53 GMT -5
I exist because if I do not exist I cannot think that I do or do not exist. I have self because I am the product of my own deranged imagination. Without self, my imagination would not exist, would not be deranged, and be incapable of postulating myself. In other words: cogito ergo sum
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2010 10:43:39 GMT -5
Quoted, not said. Douglas Adams said it. Hm... I didn't actually know that. That's pretty embarrassing. *googles* Never read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's creeped me out a bit. ^^ I stopped reading your post to make that reply after that bollocks about zero population, just seen the whole "this is a reference" thing... *facepalm*
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Post by SwimFellow on Nov 7, 2010 12:00:24 GMT -5
42 upside down: 2ᔭ
ᔭ = b.
The meaning of life is 2b. (Hint: Say it out loud.)
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Post by Kevak on Nov 7, 2010 12:23:25 GMT -5
Actually, it looks more like 7b
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Post by Lyserg Zeroz on Nov 7, 2010 12:33:17 GMT -5
I've never read that either =(
That sounds like solipsism, which is quite the useless-sauce =/. No 0.0...?
Not necessarily, I think the number of planets it's finite, but really, really big. Well, since I object these two premises I obviously also object to the conclusion. Anyways, even if there were infinite number of planets that would only mean that the average of population is a number so close to zero that it's practically zero. But it doesn't mean that we don't exist. ... Wait even if there are infinite worlds, and one of them being inhabited, this may mean that there may be more (since they are infinite) so there could also be an infinite number of worlds inhabited, but less infinite than all the worlds (non populated and populated together)...but that makes no sense, "less infinite"?. I mean that, if we have infinite worlds, let's say 1 out of every 1,000,000 worlds we count, are populated. But since there are infinite planets, we will be counting until inifinity. Rambling rambling and blah...
*googles Douglas Adams* *Quick Scan of his wiki* I don't seem to find references to such beliefs =(. Did he really believe that or was it just something he wrote for the books?
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Post by Quinn on Nov 7, 2010 12:36:17 GMT -5
*looks at hand*
I exist.
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Post by SwimFellow on Nov 7, 2010 13:05:16 GMT -5
Actually, it looks more like 7b SHHH.
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Post by rialvestro on Nov 7, 2010 14:04:31 GMT -5
I don't seem to find references to such beliefs =(. Did he really believe that or was it just something he wrote for the books? He wrote it in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Post by Alex on Nov 7, 2010 14:11:26 GMT -5
I don't seem to find references to such beliefs =(. Did he really believe that or was it just something he wrote for the books? He wrote it in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I'm writing about Aztec Gods protecting a person because they can defeat an evil octopus. -_- Just because I'm writing it doesn't mean it is true. That goes for Mr. Adams too.
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Post by Flappy on Nov 7, 2010 18:02:22 GMT -5
Cool story, Broseph.
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Post by SwimFellow on Nov 7, 2010 18:11:14 GMT -5
I love Hitchhikers Guide..
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Post by qooqǝɯɐƃ on Nov 7, 2010 18:57:22 GMT -5
I exist because if I do not exist I cannot think that I do or do not exist. I have self because I am the product of my own deranged imagination. Without self, my imagination would not exist, would not be deranged, and be incapable of postulating myself. Animals don't think, does that mean animals don't know that they exist?
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Post by Quinn on Nov 7, 2010 19:40:48 GMT -5
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Post by rialvestro on Nov 7, 2010 20:10:10 GMT -5
He wrote it in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I'm writing about Aztec Gods protecting a person because they can defeat an evil octopus. -_- Just because I'm writing it doesn't mean it is true. That goes for Mr. Adams too. Who ever said it was meant to be true? I only said that either Douglas Adams is a genius or I have lost my marbles. Which of course both could be true as well as one or the other. If I believe that anything in a work of fiction was anything more than a load of dingos kidneys than I would indeed have lost my marbles however I can also have lost my marbles over something else entirely and it wouldn't matter if I believed it or not. Douglas Adams on the other hand can be a genius without writing down a single believable fact simply on the grounds of his rather large fan base of people who may or may not have lost their marbles.
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