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Re:What Would Happen If There Were No Number 6? by EnigmaticLion on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:23AM (#15547705)
While reading the article i thought if there's no number 6, then the universe can't have more than 5 of anything. So perhaps 5 photons and that's it. There cannot be anything else because then there would be 6 objects in the universe.
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Re:What Would Happen If There Were No Number 6? by kobeya on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @02:10AM (#15547893)
Well there are six quarks. By a variant of the one-electron universe theory, we might argue that all quarks are shared instances of the same prototypical quark of that class. If we begin counting with 0, that's "5" quarks. So the answer is maybe: this universe is what you get!

(Please don't take this seriously.)

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