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What is the answer to the universe question? ›

The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is.

The number 42 from Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' represents all meaning ('the meaning of life, the universe, and everything') as determined by the fictional supercomputer Deep Thought. The number 42 is not a particularly significant number in base 13.

The Ultimate Question is the actual inquiry behind the Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. The Ultimate Question was sought after the supercomputer Deep Thought revealed the Ultimate Answer to be 42. When Deep Thought asked, Loonquawl and Phouchg were unable to say what the actual question was.

The number 42 is especially significant to fans of science fiction novelist Douglas Adams' “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” because that number is the answer given by a supercomputer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”

The universe is everything. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains. It even includes time itself and, of course, it includes you. Earth and the Moon are part of the universe, as are the other planets and their many dozens of moons.

Take author Douglas Adams's popular 1979 science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first in a series of five. Toward the end of the book, the supercomputer Deep Thought reveals that the answer to the “Great Question” of “Life, the Universe and Everything” is “forty-two.”

42 pops up as a clever allusion—and tribute—to Douglas Adams's book in popular culture. For instance, if users search for “the answer to the life the universe and everything” on Google, it provides: =42.

"Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is."

42 is the number of galactic years that the Sun-Earth system will survive before it's destroyed. And 42 is the expansion rate of the entire Universe, in miles-per-second-per-megaparsec. It really could be the answer to the ultimate question about life, the Universe, and everything.

In the series, Don't Panic is a phrase on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The novel explains that this was partly because the device "looked insanely complicated" to operate, and partly to keep intergalactic travellers from panicking.

What are the first words of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? ›

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. First line: “Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.” Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.

I also was excited to find reference to a Dylan song ... "How many roads must a man walk down?" ... the perfect question to understanding the universe, life, and everything?

"Will the Universe end?" is one of the biggest, and perhaps most important, questions about the Universe. Whether the Universe will exist forever or in some way 'end' depends on its rate of expansion, the average density of matter, and the fractions of matter, dark matter and dark energy it contains.

42 is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. It was computed by Deep Thought, the second greatest computer ever.

In ASCII, the asterisk character's numerical equivalent is 42. So what Douglas Adams is trying to tell us is this: the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else is the number 42, i.e., anything you want it to be.

A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems. A galaxy is held together by gravity. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, also has a supermassive black hole in the middle. When you look up at stars in the night sky, you're seeing other stars in the Milky Way.

42 is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. It was computed by Deep Thought, the second greatest computer ever.

The Universe is the largest unit in which we live. It is a collection of galaxies. There is only one Universe, and everything that exists, exists in this Universe itself.