Bathroom Monologue: Life, the Universe, and the End of Everything

There is an equation that will end the universe. The architects of everything did their best to make it incomprehensible, hiding knowledge from minds that might string too much of it together. If it all came together, if someone knew the whole equation, the universe would be solved and end. We weren't endangered by it until recent centuries, with discoveries in physics and chemistry. Gradually we knew more about the materials that go into everything and how they behave - the parameters of the equation. A few decades ago one man found the answer to the equation. He posed it as a joke, not knowing how serious a threat knowing "42" was to us all. Now we know what the equation is supposed to equal, and eventually enough people will know enough figures of the universe that they'll line it all up. Then it will all equal 42 and everything will collapse. That joker said the universe would go away and be replaced by something more incomprehensible. I think that's wishful thinking.