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Originally Posted by Catfish

Anyone read "Children of time" ? ^;;^

Nope, but I've read From Where Comes The Universe by Dennis Morris. The ending was awesome.

Philosophers always have the last word.

The philosophically fascinating aspect of all the above is that we have deduced the whole of our classical universe, and hope to eventually deduce the whole quantum universe, from nothing more than real numbers and finite groups. In fact, the finite groups are very easily deduced as nothing more than permutations of different whole real numbers.

Further, as shown by Bertrand Russel a century ago, all real numbers can be deduced from nothing more than the number 1. In short, if the number 1 exists, then the universe exists. Indeed, the whole universe is nothing more than the solitary number 1.

Note: It does not have to be the number one. Any whole number will suffice, including the number 42.

It appears Douglas Adams was right