The following is a question being asked on Yahoo Answers. Both the questions and answers given do not reflect the view of our website.
Question:
This was inspired by shrnkage’s Question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090610134536AAMGye7&cp=2
Timewave zero, which is part of Novelty theory, is a mathematical formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of “novelty”, defined as increase in the universe’s interconnectedness, or organised complexity,[22] over time. According to Terence McKenna, who conceived the idea in the early 1970s, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity on December 21, 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur instantaneously. As the theory was never published in a peer-reviewed journal and McKenna’s sources and reasoning were primarily what would be considered numerological rather than mathematical by professional mathematicians and scientists, the theory has failed to gain any scientific credibility or much recognition.
McKenna expressed novelty in a computer program, which purportedly produces a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or the timewave. Based on McKenna’s interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching,[23] the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity’s biological and cultural evolution. He believed the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose his end date by looking for a very novel event in recent history: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This gave an end-date in mid-November of 2012, but when he discovered its proximity to the end of the 13th baktun, he adjusted the end date to match this point in the calendar. – Wikipedia.
~cries~
Yes, Guido. That is the answer to everything along with 42.
}}}| BRILLIANT PERSON |{{{
Where have you been, sweetie! I sent you and invite to the Profiles thingie since Yahoo saw fit to blow up 360 on us.
Sonya,
My math teacher showed me a way of making 2+2=5. It took a while, but he got there. That’s when I knew that math could say whatever you wanted it to.