[Graybeard]

Dear Bottomlander, POK, Dr Waldrope, Michael

First ... I am very sorry but 42 was a tiny joke, but more a reference to a Book, now Movie called the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in which a special race of beings build and commission a GIANT computer to solve the mystery of 'Life, the Universe, and Everything' .... the computer tells them that it will take millions of years to solve the puzzle. So they settle down and wait. On the day appointed they approach the computer for the answer. The Computer tells them the answer is 42. of course, this is extremely puzzling and they ask the Computer for more details. The computer informs them that if they want more details they will have to construct an even larger one. This they do, (in the original radio series, then the first book, then the first movie.... But not the latest movie) with very surprising results that involve a little blue green planet in a distant corner of the Milky way. Since then the number 42 has become a bit of a cult number that contains mysterys inside puzzles.

I think that Bottomlander is, very astutely, referring to this surprise outcome and its place in the solving of the TOE.

But my reason for referring to it is as follows:
Perhaps the Yin/Yang
Perhaps I/0
Perhaps the Venn Diagram
Even perhaps 42
all contain the answer to 'Life, the Universe and everything'

But if so, no information can be extracted from such simplified structures. Just as a circle can contain everything within its boundaries and yet can supply no information about anything within it.

A nice logo to put on your T-Shirt, with deep meaning even, but in the end it is just a summation without the workings. it cannot be used productively.

cool bananas ... greg

PS: how do you put pictures in your posts .... whenever I use the attachment tool ... 2 identical pictures appear.