4 8 15 16 23 42 Create Your Own Pattern

Many very smart people and mathematicians are looking for the answer to this riddle and sequence of numbers, which appeared on the ABC Lost Series Reality Television Show. If you search around the Internet you will find a lot of rather interesting ideas on what this number actually is or means? Some believe it is a pattern, which can be figured out with a sequence.

Yet as people try they are usually met with disbelief and on Internet Forums with condemnation such as;