What is “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?” Well to science fiction writer extraordinaire Douglas Adams the answer was 42. Douglas Adams was inspired by another writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll who repeatedly used the number over and over again in his writings.
Now it appears to have some real merit. When scientists from the University of Toronto in Canada set out to count the protein molecules in a single cell – the building blocks of life, the universe, and well everything – the answer came out to 42… Ok 42 million but still!