[MD] The Grand Design

[John Carl]

Nice catch Adrie,

Because I was about to go all ballastic on the fact that "42" is a superior
answer to the grand design, simply because it means we haven't got the
cosmos figured out and the only answer is the continual seeking.

But your careful searching out "we shall attempt" blows that one out of the
water.  Good for you.  (And Dr. Hawking)

Reverend John

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 7:32 AM, ADRIE KINTZIGER <parser666 at gmail.com>wrote:

>  As we promise in our opening chapter, unlike the
> answer to the Ultimate Question of Life given in the *Hitchhiker’s Guide to
> the Galaxy*, the answer we provide in *The Grand Design* is not, simply,
> "42."
>
>
> Compared carefully with the original line, it is not simply a work of
> cut/copy paste, it is re-engineered
> serving the purpose of distorting the original sentence.
> Things are left out and the context/content is distorted.
> Even if it is done on a purpose,...then You , Mark ,are not capable of
> this,this is in the backgroundscenery of the postinglist-handed over
> realtered material. Re-editing like this is not acceptable.
>
> Quote Hawking-(literally), the grand design.
> "This is the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.
> We shall attempt to answer it in this book.
> Unlike the answer given in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, ours won't
> be simply '42'", end quote.
>
> He wrote , " we shall attempt", not the answer we provide.
>
> Coherence , Mark, coherence.
>
>
>
> 2010/10/17 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com>
>
> > Hey John,
> >
> > Looks like the answer is not 42.  This coming from the Grand Wizard
> > himself,
> > see below.  Sorry to burst your bubble.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > Editorial Reviews
> > Amazon.com Review
> > Stephen Hawking on The Grand Design
> >
> > How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty
> > years ago I wrote *A Brief History of Time*, to try to explain where the
> > universe came from, and where it is going. But that book left some
> > important
> > questions unanswered. Why is there a universe--why is there something
> > rather
> > than nothing? Why do we exist? Why are the laws of nature what they are?
> > Did
> > the universe need a designer and creator?
> >
> > It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a
> > single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s
> > day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for
> > that to be a realistic goal. And by the time I had begun writing *A Brief
> > History of Time*, there were still several key advances that had not yet
> > been made that would prevent us from fulfilling Einstein’s dream. But in
> > recent years the development of M-theory, the top-down approach to
> > cosmology, and new observations such as those made by satellites like
> > NASA’s
> > COBE and WMAP, have brought us closer than ever to that single theory,
> and
> > to being able to answer those deepest of questions. And so Leonard
> Mlodinow
> > and I set out to write a sequel to *A Brief History of Time* to attempt
> to
> > answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The
> > result is *The Grand Design*, the product of our four-year effort.
> >
> > In *The Grand Design* we explain why, according to quantum theory, the
> > cosmos does not have just a single existence, or history, but rather that
> > every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. We question
> > the conventional concept of reality, posing instead a "model-dependent"
> > theory of reality. We discuss how the laws of our particular universe are
> > extraordinarily finely tuned so as to allow for our existence, and show
> why
> > quantum theory predicts the multiverse--the idea that ours is just one of
> > many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with
> > different laws of nature. And we assess M-Theory, an explanation of the
> > laws
> > governing the multiverse, and the *only* viable candidate for a complete
> > "theory of everything." As we promise in our opening chapter, unlike the
> > answer to the Ultimate Question of Life given in the *Hitchhiker’s Guide
> to
> > the Galaxy*, the answer we provide in *The Grand Design* is not, simply,
> > "42."
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