The Great Question
"What is Life, the Universe and Everything?”
The answer is “forty-two” according to the supercomputer in Douglas Adams’ popular science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
However, the real science answer to this question appears to be “Pattern number 6”.
What Pattern number 6 is and why it could be the answer is highlighted on this page. The detail of the Pattern number system is described in the article linked to this page.
Pattern Numbers
Pattern numbers are sum-and-shape numbers with a sum part and a cellular shape part.
Number 6, for example, represents all positive integer pairs that are equal to the positive integer 6. Rows of cells (cubes/spheres) represent the integer pairs.
Each one of the seven different value pairs equals the (same) sum. Which pair actually represents the sum is indetermined. Only the probability of a specific value pair could be calculated.
Pattern Pottery
The Pattern idea could be compared to pottery (the making of pots from clay). A potter typically uses a mould to shape clay into a pot shape. The same mould could be used to make different pots and, therefore, all the finished pots would embody the same basic properties.
The Pattern cube represents the mould in the analogy above while the pots are represented by unification cubes that are instances of the Pattern cube. The gravity cube and the atom cube are two examples of unification cubes.
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Pattern Number System
Pattern numbers could be raised to higher powers and each power corresponds to a specific shape. The shapes are pillars, walls, blocks, and columns.
The Pattern cube is the transformed shape of a column pair that is derived from the cubed Pattern number 6 pair. A column consists of blocks.
The Pattern number system is a framework for other number systems such as the binary system (Pattern number 1) and the decimal system (Pattern number 9).