Hmmmm, for some reason changing the golden section makes my brain hurt much faster than changing pi. It must have to do with the way the golden section shows up even when all you're talking about is adding whole numbers (as in Fibonacci series). I guess it's easier for me to deal with the thought of impossible twists lurking in a big, squishy, multidimensional space than in a few poor little discrete integers.
This also reminds me of a crackpot paper posted down in the physics labs about Planck's constant varying with wavelength that I remember reading, and realizing after poking through the guy's equations that there was a much simpler way to state his premise that he somehow never got around to saying: Photons have rest mass. That would certainly be a tidy explanation for why the sky is dark, wouldn't it
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different golden ratio
Date: 2003-09-18 08:05 am (UTC)This also reminds me of a crackpot paper posted down in the physics labs about Planck's constant varying with wavelength that I remember reading, and realizing after poking through the guy's equations that there was a much simpler way to state his premise that he somehow never got around to saying: Photons have rest mass. That would certainly be a tidy explanation for why the sky is dark, wouldn't it