Douglas Adams once wrote:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
We know from history that Mr. Adams inadvertently got a few things right by pure coincidence. Such as having Arthur Dent pull random tiles out of a bag that spelled out "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" as the original question to the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything had been forgotten leaving only the answer of 42. The funny thing is in a base 13 system 6 x 9 does equal 42. Now he was also a computer programmer and 42 is ASCI code for an Asterix ( * ) and in programming an Asterix usually is a wildcard and can mean anything and everything. In DOS *.* plus enter will list every file on a drive, "*.* delete" will wipe an entire drive, "*.* undelete" will restore every non overwritten file on a drive, but I digress.
There is something called the double slit experiment. In this experiment there are two slits and electrons are fired through them and should create a particular pattern, but if you are watching they make one pattern and if not watched they create a totally different pattern. No one can say why this happens only that it is repeatable with the same results no matter who does it. It also has a level of reverse setting that if you observe it in a particular way the electrons seem to go back in time and create the expected pattern of watched or not watched.
The experiment does predate Mr. Adams writing the books that contain this, so it is possible the idea was a quirky take on it, but does this possibly explain weird things we see in life like the Mandela effect or deja vu? Does my writing this down create a new replacement and even more bizarre events? Does it explain the correlation many have seen with the Large Hadron Collider that periodically seems to align with Mandela effects because they discovered something, understood it, and something else was replaced to make things weird?
Just some random thoughts from a writer on the surface of a very weird planet that is hurtling through an equally weird universe*.
So how far away is the Restaurant at the end of the Universe? I guess that depends on weather we can see it or not, plus it is stuck in a temporal loop so the end is more a when than a where.
Maura Out
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."
Douglas Adams
* The Earth/Gia/Terra is moving in several directions at one time constantly:
- It spins on an axis with an axial tilt of 23.44 degrees with a velocity at the equator of 1,674 km/h (1,040 mph or 465 m/s) or Mach 1.36
- The Earth orbits Sol at 29.78 km/s or 66,616 mph
- Sol and by default all of his planets orbit the galactic center of the Milky Way at eh 220–250 km/s which is roughly 800,000–900,000 km/h or 500,000 mph
Our solar system completes one Galactic year every 250 million Earth years. - The Milky Way is itself moving through the universe at 552 km/s (about 1.23 million mph or 2 million km/h) relative to the cosmic microwave background