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The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash (WSOGMM) is a fictional concept in physics and cosmology from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, mentioned in Mostly Harmless. The Guide describes the WSOGMM as a way of understanding the sum of parallel universes in creation (in this context, creation is best described to a casual observer as spacetime). The theory of WSOGMM states that parallel universes are not parallel as such but rather each universe is simply a quantum physical perception of the same construct, which is the WSOGMM. Physics (from the Greek, (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space and time. ...
Cosmology, as a branch of astrophysics, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) was a British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician. ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
The front cover of the US first hardcover edition of Mostly Harmless. ...
A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) that together comprise all of physical reality. ...
In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that combines three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time into a single construct called the space-time continuum, in which time plays the role of the 4th dimension. ...
Parallel is a term in geometry and in everyday life that refers to a property in Euclidean space of two or more lines or planes, or a combination of these. ...
The last version of the Guide, a bird evocative of The Raven, gives a description of the Mish Mash to Arthur Dent's daughter Random. Though most factual information to do with the subject of parallel universes are incomprehensible to most beings under the rank of Advanced God, it can be understood better if the observer accepts these facts: everything in the WSOGMM moves in one direction in the first dimension, two directions in the second dimension, four directions in the third dimension and, unless with time travel, in one direction in the related but tangential fourth dimension, otherwise known as time. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
Simon Jones as an upset Arthur Dent, watching his home being demolished in the first episode of the BBC TV series. ...
There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ...
In mathematics, the word tangent has two distinct but etymologically-related meanings: one in geometry and one in trigonometry. ...
Cube with fourth-dimensional directions (ana/kata) creating a hypercube. ...
Two distinct views exist on the meaning of time. ...
The fifth dimension (and its implied every other dimension up to the twenty-second) is actually an axis of probability that makes up the Mish Mash. Any multiverse in creation is actually a location in the fifth dimension on. To an observer, a certain universe functions alone, but it's proven that if something is introduced simultaneously into every dimension (such as the bird version of The Guide was as a marketing ploy), an action on that object can affect the entire Mish Mash. In the final chapter of Mostly Harmless, when Earth is destroyed by the Vogons and the bird dies with it, the Earth is destroyed in all other universes—finally removed from the WSOGMM. In physics and mathematics, a sequence of N numbers can be understood to represent a location in an N-dimensional space. ...
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Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ...
This is a list of races, fauna and flora featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
It's mentioned briefly that the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash, according to its own theory that creation is not the universe or time but a construct of probability, doesn't exist, and is merely a retro-hypothetical way of looking at it if it did. This self-cancelling out is a common theme in Douglas Adams' work, as seen in Life, the Universe and Everything, where it's mentioned that the technology needed to invent time travel is only attainable with the use of time travel. Retrospective (from Latin retrospectare, look back) generally means to take a look back at events that already have taken place. ...
A hypothesis (from Greek ) is a suggested explanation of a phenomenon or reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena. ...
Life, The Universe and Everything cover Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0345391829) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ...
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