Must write this down before it seems too stupid.
I'm somewhat of a pantheist - there's a bit of god in everything. I believe in god as an ordering force rather than some guy with a beard sitting on a throne (OK an ethnic minority woman with a disability if you prefer).
The thought that struck me was that the ultimate reality must be something pretty simple at base. Rather like the simplicity of an algorithm that creates complex fractal patterns.
So why can't we see it? Simplest explanation is one of scale - the basis of our 'system' is either so huge or so tiny that it's outside our limited comprehension.
That makes '42' as the answer a lot more plausible. Cue Vogon destructor ships and my brain being diced.
