[b]Douglas Adams
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of
the word “Infinite”.
Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.
Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, “wow, that’s big”, time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy.
Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we’re trying to get across here.[/b]
Unless, of course, it’s .99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 on and on forever and ever.
For some, that doesn’t even make it 1.
“Why?’ is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you ‘What’s the time?’ or ‘When was the battle of 1066?’ or ‘How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?’ The answers are easy and are, respectively, ‘Seven-thirty in the evening,’ ‘Ten-fifteen in the morning,’ and 'Don’t ask stupid questions.”
We just don’t know why that is.
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.
Hang on, can I write this down? said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.
Harold having clearly missed the point.
How can I tell, said the man, that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
So, is this a trick question?
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Of course he’s just paraphrasing Woody Allen.
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
Anyone here know why?