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Elon Musk talks about his favorite book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Why does he call it a book on philosophy?
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00:00You know, Douglas Adams' book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is actually a deep book on philosophy disguised as
00:08humor.
00:09And the point he was trying to make in that book was that the questions are really the hard part.
00:15The answer is the universe.
00:17The answer is everything you see around you.
00:19But what are the questions that we don't know to ask?
00:23Now, some of the questions I guess I do know, I'd like to know, is the standard model of physics
00:28correct?
00:28About the origins of the universe?
00:30Are we actually 13.8 billion years old?
00:32How does the universe end?
00:34Does it end in a heat death or in some other way?
00:37Are we in a black hole?
00:38We might be.
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