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[challenge entry] Om found in Mandelbrot set.
For years, Islamic mathematicians have been looking for the word 'Allah' in the Mandelbrot set - if Allah turned out to be written into mathematics, then that would be absolute proof.

Recently however, it all went quite quiet.

Now, we can reveal that instead of finding confirmation of their own take on 'Life, The Universe and Everything', instead, they found an 'Om' (ॐ) - the Hindu mantra.

Oh well.

From the Memequake! challenge. See all 353 entries (closed)

(jflinden wifflewaffle, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:33, archived)
# wut?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:34, archived)
# 'OM' My God!
Recently however, it went all quite what?
(I helped save b3ta! Eduard Khil's Haircut is lurking and liking on, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:37, archived)
# It went quite what?
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:36, archived)
# Touche
(I helped save b3ta! Eduard Khil's Haircut is lurking and liking on, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:38, archived)
# Stop toucheing me
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:46, archived)
# quiet - ta
(jflinden wifflewaffle, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:38, archived)
# See, they want pedantic pea-counters like me on the job
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:39, archived)
# Too right
Where would we be without people who could do a subediting job for free?
(jflinden wifflewaffle, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:44, archived)
# Shirley you jest?
(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:37, archived)
# Eh?
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:37, archived)
# absolute proof of what?
that chocolate flavoured bars have less then 14% coco solids by weight?

that the country is a bit fuck financially?

that there really is no god and that blind faith is an outdated way to control the masses?
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:38, archived)
# and the rest
Once you've got about a third of the way through Godel, Escher and Bach, you realise that mathematics can only be incomplete as well.
(jflinden wifflewaffle, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:40, archived)
# Heh.
Someone once tried the to prove the existence of God by pointing out that if you convert each number into its corresponding position in the alphabet (1=A, 2=B, ... 26=Z), and then translate pi this way, somewhere in there is the text 'I am God and I created the universe'. However, since pi is an infinite and non-repeating number, this means that any conceivable piece of text is in there somewhere. Somewhere in there it'll say 'I am Bob Todd, and I created the universe, not God'.

And that's leaving aside the problem of whether a 26 should be a Z or a B and a F.
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:39, archived)
# There is no such thing as an infinite number
By its very definition, "infinite" distances itself from being associated with numbers. If Pi were an infinite number, you'd have steak and kidney everywhere.
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:41, archived)
# I once found one of those sites that promises to find your date of birth in pi.
You know: if you insert the digits ddmmyy - or in any other sequence.

I entered my date of birth.

Nothing.

I had a bit of an existential crisis that day.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:42, archived)
# Hahahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:43, archived)
# It just means you are God.
Deal with it.

And GAZ me this Friday's Euromillions numbers while you're at it.
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:43, archived)
# 1,2,3,4,5 and 6
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:55, archived)
# You don't play the Euromillions Lottery, do you?
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:57, archived)
# There are also
people who claim that the Bible has texts in it (say if you look at every seventh letter and so on, it'll say something like predict Lady Di's death and so on) and when confronted by someone who understood what was going on, who claimed that it would happen with any sufficiently long piece of text, they suggested that it be tried with Moby Dick. So they did. And it worked, better than the Bible.

So much for the Bible - out performed by Moby Dick.
(jflinden wifflewaffle, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:42, archived)
# Also, they're deliberately searching for strings like 'God exists'.
Did they search for strings like 'otters knitting' or 'worship Satan'? I bet plenty of silly results would turn up too if you looked for them.
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:50, archived)
# Yup
And, you don't have to look in anything that looks like legible text either. You can just use random letter sequences.
When you think about it, it's all a bit arbitrary anyway. The alphabet we use nowadays is not the same as the one that it was written in, whenever it was really written down (however long after the event/myth was supposed ot have happened.
(jflinden wifflewaffle, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:57, archived)
# Is Thursday theology day on B3ta?
(I helped save b3ta! Eduard Khil's Haircut is lurking and liking on, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:43, archived)
# Not quite
It's taking the piss out of all of those people who spend their lives looking for evidence of their belief system in real world things, whether it is people looking for the world Allah in the Mandelbrot set or people listening to Led Zeppelin albums backwards, trying to hear the Devil (whatever that is supposed to be).
(jflinden wifflewaffle, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:54, archived)
# You're god then?
all hail bob todd
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:49, archived)
# It will also say somewhere in there 'I am Rebel biscuit and I created the universe'.
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:51, archived)
# Actually, its not certain
Just very likely (as far as we know), its perfectly possible to have a non repeating transcendental number (one that goes on forever in a decimal expansion and is not the solution of a polynomial equation) which does not include every digit (remove all the 9s from pi and you'd still have a transcendental number (probably, not going to try and prove it, but would be suprised if it wanst true), but would never get the letters I or S.
Would be interesting to see what it spelled if you converted it into base 2 and then read it as ascii though
(I helped save b3ta! Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 25 Mar 2010, 16:02, archived)
# there's no such thing as God...
and if there was, then he's fucked off to the other side of the galaxy in his ufo

wake up sheeple!!
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:44, archived)
# ^ needs more words*
Actually, no it doesn't...
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 15:16, archived)