RAJESH WARRIER

PHI - The Golden Ratio
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Its amazing and I forgot this already. Was mistaken (some time back) about this Divine Number and remember Sam correcting me on this. For infinite reasons, some of them you'd find here, - PHI is known as the Golden Ratio or the Divine Proportion.

1.618

PHI was derived from the Fibonacci Series - the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching 1.618. This number plays a role as the fundamental building block in nature. Plants, Animals and even Human Beings all possess dimensional properties that adhear with eerie exactitude to the ratio of PHI /1.

Where do I start? Hmm ... okay Now we are aware of the fact that in a Honeybee community, female bees always outnumber the male bees. But If you divide the number of female bees by the number of male bees in any beehive in the world, you'd always get the same number - PHI.

* A Sunflower Seed - Seeds grow in opposing spirals. Can u guess the ratio of each rotation's diameter to the next? - PHI

* Spiraled pinecone petals, Leaf arrangement on the plant stalks, Insect segmentation - all display the same - The Divine Proportion.

* Human body is literally made of building blocks whose proportion ratios always equal to PHI.

* Measure the distance from the tip of ur head to the floor. Then divide that by the distance from your belly button to the floor. Guess what .. you get PHI.

* Measure the distance from your shoulder to your fingertips and then divide it by the distance from your elbow to your fingertips. Yes -- you get 1.618 .

* Even the dimensions of our teeth are based on phi

* Hip to floor divided by knee to floor - PHI again !!

* Finger joints ... Toes ... Spinal Divisions - PHI, PHI, PHI.

PHI also finds its way into many architectural dimensions of the Greek Parthenon, Pyramids of EGYPT and even the United Nations Building in New York. PHI was also used to calculate the exact placement of the f-holes in the construction of the famous Violins bye Stradivarius.

If you draw a 5 pointed Star, also known as the pentacle, the lines automatically divide themselves into segments according to the Divine Proportion. Sigh !!

Listening to TOOL the other day song named Lateralus. Came to know that the drummer and Maynard use fibonacci number sequences within their playing/singing throughout and inthe lyrics too ! There has to be something about the Divine Proportion. Not only did it lead to such a divine visual masterpiece—Mona Lisa (You can find the golden number on Mona Lisa's face) . It also brought to life a divine audio masterpiece: Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. The musical mystics “think” that the distance between the notes of Stairway to Heaven can be represented by PHI .

* The golden ratio makes an unexpected appearance even in the thermodynamics of certain black holes.

* A Unique mathematical property of the golden ratio - its square can be obtained simply by adding 1 to PHI.

* The number 666 is also related to PHI ........

The pervasive appearance of phi throughout life and the universe is believed by some to be the signature of God, a universal constant of design used to assure the beauty and unity of His creation.

Thanks to Dan Brown for reminding me and letting me meet - The PHI.

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