Biquaddecaphilia (n.)
A strange and persistent obsession with the
number 42, often contracted as a result of reading, listening to or watching
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy, written by the now sadly
deceased Douglas
Adams.
The number 42 is widely acknowledged to be the
ultimate answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything, to
which the question is as yet unknown. Individuals who suffer from
biquaddecaphilia will frequently choose the number 42 in preference to an
infinite range of positive integers, using it to answer all sorts of apparently
unconnected questions, such as ‘How many roads must a man walk
down?’, ‘What's six times nine?’, and so
on.
Many people have speculated that if we knew why the number 42 was the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything then we would know a lot more about the nature of our universe than we do today. However, this is pure speculation and modern physicists suggest that the number 11 and the letter ‘M’ may have a more significant part to play in all of this than was previously thought.
Many people have speculated that if we knew why the number 42 was the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything then we would know a lot more about the nature of our universe than we do today. However, this is pure speculation and modern physicists suggest that the number 11 and the letter ‘M’ may have a more significant part to play in all of this than was previously thought.
Posted on Wednesday - May 04, 2005 at 02:25 PM
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