Reply to: Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

[realityhack]

I'll have a fiver on the nose. I assume you've eaten everything else.

[TimberWolf]

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4114?


Playing hide and seek in non-spatial dimensions might be fun!

[Churchill]

Shergar - Yup.

I'll have a fiver on the nose. I assume you've eaten everything else.

[scooterscot]

Here's something that could handle it:

"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. A computer which can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program!

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[Troll]

It's quite crowded in here really.

It's that Lord Lucan chappie, he takes up a lot of room.

Is Shergar in there too?

[Mekon]

Oh yes.

I find the idea of god easier to comprehend than 57 dimensions in space and time. Where do they all go? Is anyone hiding in them?

[A shed load of Daleks]

Oh yes.

I find the idea of god easier to comprehend than 57 dimensions in space and time. Where do they all go? Is anyone hiding in them?

[TimberWolf]

God knows.

[wendigo100]

Oh yes.

I find the idea of god easier to comprehend than 57 dimensions in space and time. Where do they all go? Is anyone hiding in them?

[TimberWolf]

57?

Which universe are you in?

Not the surfer dude's I suspect:

Is this the fabric of the universe?
At the most basic level, the calculation is an arcane investigation of symmetry – in this case of an object that is 57 dimensional, rather than the usual three dimensional ones that we are familiar with. Although this object was first discovered in the 19th century. there is evidence that it could contain the structure of the cosmos. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected...cpattern19.xml

[realityhack]

57?

Which universe are you in?

It's Life, the universe and everything - with inflation.

[wendigo100]

Now that we have the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life the Universe and Everything, i.e. 57, we still need to work the ultimate question.

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer".

57?

Which universe are you in?

[TimberWolf]

Yeah, and as soon as we figure out the meaning to everything it'll be game over. He's toying with us!

Now that we have the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life the Universe and Everything, i.e. 57, we still need to work the ultimate question.

"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer".

[wendigo100]

That sounds like the blueprint for threaded.

[TimberWolf]

Bigger than the Human Genome

The magnitude of the E8 calculation invites comparison with the Human Genome Project. The human genome, which contains all the genetic information of a cell, is less than a gigabyte in size.

Here's something that could handle it:

"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. A computer which can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program!