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Double Helix Golden Mean Spiral
Greetings,
One of my favorite concepts is the realization that we humans are in
fact the universe itself, on an endless journey of evolution, learning
and trying to understand itself through our human experience.
The
Golden Mean Spiral
The Golden Mean Spiral structure represents two well known sacred
geometry patterns: the golden mean (phi) spiral and the Fibonacci
spiral. The Mysterious Golden Mean also known as the "Golden Ratio" or
Phi value (1.618) after the 21st letter of the Greek
alphabet, PHI [φ] is a pattern that appears all
throughout nature and the universe. It is a cosmic law which is even
more mysterious and profound in its implications than pi. Like pi, phi
is a number with no arithmetical solution. The decimals just keep on
going into infinity without ever repeating themselves. The unique thing
about this number is that it can be found incorporated in most organic
structures. From the bone structure of human beings to the seed pattern
of a sunflower to the spiral of a sea shell, the phi proportion is
there, underlying all biological structures, seeming to be a
geometrical blueprint for life itself.
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Plato went so far as to call the phi ratio the "key
to the physics of
the cosmos". Phi is
calculated at 1.6180339+..., and while it cannot be
worked out arithmetically, it can be easily obtained with a compass and
straightedge.
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mean in Pyramids
The phi ratio is found in the architecture of the Great Pyramid in the
triangle formed by the height, half-base, and the apothem, or diagonal.
In other words, the basic cross - section of the structure demonstrates
the Golden Section. The Golden Section shows up again and again in Giza
and in much more baffling and tedious ways.
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The Fibonacci Spiral
Another Sacred Geometry Spiral Pattern can be found in the Fibonacci
sequence.
which bears a special relationship to phi, and to the pyramids at Giza.
First postulated by the medieval mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, this
sequence was used to describe the growth patterns of plants. It goes:
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233, etc. It is made by adding the last
two numbers of the sequence to get the next one, as in: 1+1=2, 1+2=3,
2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, etc. This sequence's relationship to phi is that
if you divide one term of the sequence into the next one, the result
begins to quickly approach the transcendental number 1.6180339+... Of
course, you can never actually get to it exactly, since it has no
mathematical solution, it just keeps getting closer and closer, to
infinity. Aerial photographs show that the pyramids at Giza are
positioned in such a way that they fall on a line which accurately
defines a Fibonacci spiral. The spiral passes exactly through the
centers of each pyramid.
Even the microscopic realm is not immune to Fibonacci. The DNA molecule
measures 34 angstroms long by 21 angstroms wide for each full cycle of
its double helix spiral. These numbers, 34 and 21, are numbers in the
Fibonacci series, and their ratio 1.6190476 closely approximates Phi,
1.6180339.
Scientists have found that the height of one unit of the DNA helix is
related to its width in a proportion equal to the "The Golden Spiral
(Ratio)" or the Fibonacci and Padovan number series that form the
bridge from the number patterns found in in the double helix of DNA and
a cross sectional view of the DNA molecule from the top reveals two
pentagons (whose angles are determined by the golden ratio).
So once again we can see that we are the universe itself trying to
learn itself and understand itself through countless eons of
evolution…
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Thank you for reading
May All Beings Be Happy
David and Ka-Gold
Team
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