It is more likely in my opinion that he simply didn't consider it to be a problem than that he believed it to be a problem but had come up with some complicated excuse to put it in the story anyway. But even if that is so, even very smart people can be wrong sometimes. It is of course your prerogative to consider him wrong in that respect. Sagan considered your proposition to be so obviously and objectively true that it did not make sense to even speculate about a universe in which it is not. There is therefore no particular reason to believe that Dr. but that isn't a falsifiable statement there is no meaningful way to argue either in favour or against this proposition.
Math itself must precede both the universe and anything or anyone that created it. To expand on that a little, I suspect that this quote from your question summarizes the reason that you feel there ought to be an explanation of some sort: Granted, authors do occasionally undermine their own stories, but I consider it unlikely in this particular case. Just as your witness is right for this time, for our time.Īny attempt at explaining the inexplicable, describing the mechanism behind a miracle in human terms, would have fatally undermined the story. How could they be? The Genesis account was right for the time of Jacob. None of your details are in the Book of Genesis. Somewhere inside of you, you must have known. In other words, that it was a genuine miracle, real and irrefutable evidence for the existence of God. The whole point of the story was that the message in π was inexplicable.
I don't want answers from the movie, Contact, since that does not mention any messages hidden in the value of π.
I am looking for answers from the novel or from Carl Sagan's writings or interviews. I could better believe a deity chose to hide a message inside the Fine-Structure Constant than in π.ĭid Carl Sagan ever provide an explanation for how a deity would embed hidden messages deep inside the value of π? Somebody as smart as Carl Sagan should know that the creator(s) of the universe can no more change the value of π than they can change any other fact. This not only provides evidence of her journey, but suggests that intelligence is behind the universe itself. When Ellie looks at what the computer has found, she sees a circle rasterized from 0's and 1's that appear after 10^20 places in the base 11 representation of π. Near the end of the book, Contact, by Carl Sagan, the main character is told there are messages hidden deep in the base-11 digits of π.Īcting on the suggestion of "Ted", Ellie works on a program to compute the digits of π to heretofore-unprecedented lengths.
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