This is not exactly the answer to the questions raised.... but will provide an insight.
A group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the
Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose.
It takes Deep Thought 7 1⁄2 million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Deep Thought points out that the answer seems meaningless because the beings who instructed it never knew what the question was.
PS: But later on the well known theoretical physicist Richard Feynman found that the answer is not really 42 as Deep Thought had calculated, but it's really is 1/137 and called it “one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding”.