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A phi universe - 08-27-2005, 02:29 AM

Phi is the golden ratio, and is found everywhere in life. It is also the ratio between sequential fibonacci numbers, or rather close to the ratio. The larger the numbers in the sequence, the closer their ratio gets to phi. For instance, 3/2 = 1.5, 8/5 = 1.6, 13/8 = 1.625, and so on. Now, the fibonacci sequence says you take a number, add the previous number, and this equals the next number. With that one rule, the sequence goes on indefinately. And so it goes 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13... You get each new number by adding a number that already exists. However, to start the sequence off from zero, you need to add a 1 which does not already exist. In other words, you can impliment this rule of adding the previous number to the current number to get the new number, and have zero sitting there for a near eternity, but then as soon as you add in that 1 the sequence takes off and doesn't stop until infinity, when the ratio becomes phi. Could this have any relation to the universe? First nothing, and then all of a sudden something happens and it all explodes, unfolding in a sequence of increasing complexity. The big bang is the erruption of the sequence taking off. The toe is the rule that dictates how the sequence plays out. It would also explain how the 1 appears out of nowhere.
  
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