Its clearly only half of the answer.

The complete answer of the universe would of course be 42cm.

But do you know where your towel is?

The article gives the answer to the question in the title in the first paragraph. This is really commendable. (Suspense is—wait for it!—overrated.)

We've replaced the magic title with the more informative subtitle now. Standard mod trick.

42/2

When I replied, the article had been posted 42 minutes ago and had 42 upvotes.

That can’t be a coincidence.

The people running our simulation are just fucking with us at this point.

Though 13 is totally the average!

Ah, so the answer to life, the universe, and everything was actually 42/2 …

Is this going to be τ vs π all over again?

I recently did a bit of programming exploration using tau exclusively instead of pi (and `sintau` instead of the new `sinpi` function etc.)

In almost every aspect this was far simpler, but there was the curious case of the constant `M_2_SQRTPI = 2 / sqrt(π)`. Even after looking up what weird formula that constant is used in, it wasn't at all clear to me where would be the most sensible place to put the constant.

Chickens take 21 days to hatch and give us the most protein rich food you can eat. Does this mean that chickens are the magic creature of the universe?

Pretty sure newly hatched chicks are not the most protein rich food you can eat. But the crunch must be amazing.

Is this why cows and horses eat them?

Damn that's 42 / 2!

... so the question is "What is twice the magic quantum light length?"

Doesn't seem all that great, but I'm probably missing something.

It is 21.1061… cm worth of them.

Fun fact, your computer is really good at answering this question for you. So is (say) Google Search.

Or an LLM, or even just using MacOS spotlight search autocompletes "21cm how many inches " to the right answer.

Not gonna lie, my teenager brain interpreted that title in a very different way.

Already covered here ages ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUGfs9rwms&t=13s

Please don't do this here.

Reddit gave me bad habits. My apologies