Newfound powers
Oh, hai!
As I have probably mentioned at some point, some of the bands I like include Behemoth and Belphegor. Both came with new albums recently. Behemoth’s new album ‘Evangelion’ is definately different from ‘The Apostasy’, but it definately kicks at least as much ass (which is quite a lot!). Since ‘Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn’ from Belphegor is far more recent, I havn’t really listened to it enough to form an opinion, but there are definately things that I like here 
Also, a few weeks ago someone mentioned something math-related. As you may know, x0 (x being any number except 0) is 1. I was told once why that was, though I couldn’t remember it and it bugged me for weeks. But I found it again (and it seems that very few people know this), so if you’re interested:
Basic rules when working with powers include that xa · xb can also be written as xa+b. For division, a similar rule exists which says that xa / by xb equals xa-b. Now if we take the second rule, and assume that a and b are equal, we find that xa / xa = xa-a, which is the same as 1 = x0 (which is valid as long as x does not equal zero, in which case it is undefined).
Yay!
Possibilities
Here’s something that I’ve been playing with in my mind for a while, but so far I never really found the time/will to write the article. Click the more link to see the full article; I have decided to make it into a separate page because the numbers are fucking up the layout of the homepage otherwise.
Meaningless
On several occassions, people who heard/read some theories of mine said that I could probably write a book like the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, a book which you simply should have read, not entirely just because it’s probably the only five-part trilogy that was ever created. In this book, it is stated that the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is in fact 42, and that nobody knows what the actual question is. For those who know this, it is funny to see on how many occassions people have used this little fact in various things. For example, in the episode ‘Quarantaine’ (Stargate Atlantis, Season 4), the password of Rodney McKay consists of the birth years of two major scientific people, his own birth date, and the number 42. In an earlier episode, McKay asks Sheppard if he knows how many unexplored planets there are in the Ancient’s database, where Sheppard answers 42. However, back to the topic: according to the Hithhiker’s Guide, it is also impossible for the answer and the question to exist in a galaxy at the same time. I came to the conclusion that that is a true statement, and I will get back to that shortly. Before that, I will need to go into a little science. In this article, I will combine the science with the fiction, so to say.
For many of us, the Ultimate Question has something to do with the reason of life/why do we exist/etcetera etcetera blahdiblahdiblah. If you ask me why do we exist I can answer that question: there is no reason. Everything that happens, has happened and will ever happened is nothing but the combination of the laws of physics and a complicated playback of events that were recorded at the time of the Big Bang, or possibly even earlier. Now hold on: the science bit is coming up.
According to Newtonian physics, the future is predetermined. Every particle in the universe is at one particular location and is moving at some speed in a direction. If you know where it is and where it’s going, you can predict when and how that particule will interact with another, which may or may not cause something significant to happen. This is a very significant thing, since this means that everything that happens is the result of some action (and in any case the indirect result of the big bang), and every action causes something else to happen. And no, there is nothing you could ever do about it, since every thought we have is nothing but the product of a complex electrochemical device known to and possessed by many, but used by few, that is known as a brain.
In fact, that you are now reading this is the direct result of some electrical pulses in your brain that made you decide it was a good idea to go to www.damnleet.com and read this article. That you are still reading here, is the result of you reading it in the first place, since that caused more electrical pulses to make you decide it is interesting enough to keep reading.
I know that some people (including Samantha Carter in one particular Stargate SG-1 episode, but I’m too lazy to review all episodes to find which one it was, thank you) will now start whining about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. For those of you not familiar with it, quamtum physics has a funny little thing called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which basically states that the more certain you are about a particle’s location, the less certain you are about it’s speed, and vice versa. The point is, this only means that it would be impossible to create a device to predict the future, not that it isn’t predetermined. And it would be impossible either way since you would need to know the speed, direction and location of every particle that exists, because no matter how far away, they might accidently have a significant effect that completely throws your little time machine off course.
Okay, and now back to the science and fiction thing. As you may have noticed I just explained that everything is predetermined. I will now explain why the Ultimate Question and Ultimate Answer indeed can’t exist at the same time, knowing that the answer is 42.
Let’s say we know the Ultimate Question: what is the reason of our existence? It’s easy here: because there is no reason to existence, the question cannot be answered, and therefore given the question the answer can’t exist as well.
Let’s say we know the Ultimate Answer: 42. It is simply impossible to come up with a question that is important enough to be considered the ultimate question, and to which the answer is 42, thus confirming that the question and answer can’t exist at the same time.
And for those who are now complaining that ‘What is the reason of our existence? 42.’ is not logical: I would like to refer you to the scene where Arthur and Ford are stuck on prehistoric Earth, and Arthur utters the words “I always thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.”
And as final thing, for those of you who claim that the above is way too much philosophic to be science: consider this:
science + fiction = philosophy
Doesn’t seem at all that crazy, eh? 