It wasn't me. You can't prove anything.


2010-12-13

What happened to the dinosaurs?

There is a saying that dividing by zero will cause the end of the universe. So, why has it not happened. Surely, someone as achieved the feat with a calculator back in the last century or perhaps even one before. Some might say that the first one who think of the concept was the one to trip the end of the universe. The end is just taking a bit.

Well, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. No change of anything can happen to the next bit of universe next to it faster than the speed of light. There is a whole set of rules about quantum that don't make any sense to the sane that I'm skipping that might or might not say that things can be in all states at the same time, or no state at that same time. They might also predict the existence of a point or bit of the universe that can or may not exist in the same place as the same time as itself or in two different places at the same time. Did I mention I'm skipping this bit?

I have entered, in to a calculator and in to a computer, x over zero. I got an error. In some compilers, you can simply define what happens when you hit x over zero. The choices were return an error, return a zero or something else I don't remember. There were choices. So, the fate of the universe depends on the CFlags string.

The first time h sentient creature put one container inside another, the universe hung up. All we lost were the dinosaurs. Glad I wasn't on that bug hunt. We should just count ourselves lucky and ignore the cracks in reality.

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