They’re standing so close to the chalkboard they had to move the writing around their heads
Lmao I didn’t even notice that. I suppose that’s just good design, if it looked natural at a glance.
What they see:
Hrm, they seem off by a little, maybe… 42 units?
That is in addition to life & everything.
Given universe is 0, then life and everything will be 42 but it’s also possible that the unspecified operator between universe and the rest (life and everything) is dependent on parts of the universe equation and might be something else
I don’t get it (the joke and the purpose of the universe)
I took it to be contrasting the “thrill of discovery” with doing math that would be boring and tedious to most people.
Damn, what would you even do with that information if you figured it out at 10:05am on a workday?
Laws of thermodynamics ensure that it’s a zero sum game at best.
Yes?
Zoom in on that zero, boys! Show us those vacuum quantum fluctuations!
My favorite is when they discovered the universe has zero energy curvature which means nothing goes in and nothing comes out. Somehow it made more sense that zero could split into thing and antithing and we don’t even question it anymore.
