Solving Cosmological Mysteries.

Yesterday I received a tweet that apparently stirred up some confusion among @Zaius13's followers. I've taken the time to clear some of the doubts that rose. Bear in mind that I've tried to keep this as simple as I possible but sufficient enough to quell existential concerns. With that being said... here's the post:

RT @Zaius13: Wait. Can I cross 'cross this off the bucket list' off my bucket list if it isn't actually crossed off my bucket list until I cross it off?

I re-tweeted the super long question and used it as a comment to one of Juan's Facebook video posts hosted on youtube. Check it out, it's pretty funny. Btw subscribe to Juan's channel now, he's cool. Oh and stalk him on twitter: @juanboyy.



You can also view the video here.

After having posted @Zaius13's tweet, it received the following comment:

I hope you know that tweet makes absolute no sense what so ever.

Oh what a great opportunity to be an a-hole. Here's my reply:

What a conundrum! It actually makes sense... let's look at it from a different perspective. Disclaimer: Incoming Geeky paragraphs. In case you don't care to read, skip to the last 3 paragraphs.

I is the set of i number of yet to be completed tasks in your bucket list.

X(i) is the binary decision variable that determines whether or not the (i) task has been completed (1) or not (0).

The bucket list's completion is contingent on an endogenous binary decision variable X(i); that is: whether the X(i) condition of your list has been completed (1 for yes, 0 for no). For explanatory purposes lets say that i=1, meaning that the only element on your bucket list reads: 'cross this of the bucket list.'

The list will remain incomplete until the X(1) that corresponds to having crossed 'cross this off the bucket list' takes the value of 1, which requires having physically executed the action of crossing the X(1) task off. The X(1) is forced to take the 0 value because the X(1) condition cannot be crossed off since it has not been physically executed. It will remain like so since no two events can occur at the same moment in time.

Follow this gedanken experiment:

counter: real number
i: number of tasks, natural number
I: set of i
X(i): array of (i) binary decision variable

i:=1;
counter:=0;

while(counter<>i) do
{
forall(i in I)
{
if (X(i)=1)
counter:=counter+1;
}
end forall
}
end while

The problem creates an infinite loop and it may not have solution but in the tweet's context it's a valid statement. In other words... What came first? the egg or the hen (rhetorical Q of course).

BTW: Regarding Juan's story of the cheating classmate: 'This is not the end of me!' Really? Soooooo the dark ages. Vendetta bitch.

If you must comment please avoid referring to the syntax of the program I wrote above(I'm a little rusty.) The purpose is to convey a message and make a solid point.

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