{"id":10310,"date":"2020-12-02T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T18:18:38","slug":"gods-final-message-to-his-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10310","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s final message to His creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the immortal Douglas Adams, God&#8217;s final message to His creation is simple: &#8220;We apologize for the inconvenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s also another final message of sorts, the answer to the Ultimate Question about Life, Universe, and Everything: 42.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a researcher by the name of Michael Hippke <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2011.14435.pdf\">analyzed<\/a> the seemingly random bits that are contained in minute fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. His conclusion: there is no discernible pattern, no appearance of constants of nature, no detectable statistical autocorrelation. The message is random.<\/p>\n<p>I beg to respectfully disagree. In the 512-bit segment published by Hippke, the bit sequence 101010 appears no fewer than <del>eight<\/del>, er, nine times (one occurrence split between two lines).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2011.14435.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10311 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hippke-42.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hippke-42.png 699w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Hippke-42-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now if we only knew the question to which the answer is 42&#8230;<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10310' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the immortal Douglas Adams, God&#8217;s final message to His creation is simple: &#8220;We apologize for the inconvenience.&#8221; But there&#8217;s also another final message of sorts, the answer to the Ultimate Question about Life, Universe, and Everything: 42. Recently, a researcher by the name of Michael Hippke analyzed the seemingly random bits that are <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10310' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-religion","category-20-id","category-38-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}