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The Golden Ratio

Is it bunk?

Or

is there something to it?

Or

Does it matter?
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Google Hits in Millions GWB=George W. Bush and
LdV=Leonardo da Vinci
Form a square with sides of a length one.
Bisect the Square as shown. Bisect the
rectangle as shown, scribe an arc as shown
and the ratio will be Phi
Perhaps
there is
good
reason
why these
are sized
at the
golden
ratio.
Mask Makers distort this ratio
for evil and ugly masks.
God commanded Noah
to build an arc that was
close to the Golden
Ratio or is this just looking for things that
are not there?
The Arc of the
Covenant was
commanded by God
to be built at a ratio
close to the Golden
Ratio. Or is this just looking for
things that are not there?
Psychology Studies
Babies crawl toward photos of
Beautiful faces and away from
Ugly ones.

Beautiful ones adhere to the Golden Ratio and ugly ones do not.
The Pi Lullaby
By giving each number a tone as
in Do, Ra, Mi, Fa, So La, Te, Do,
and then giving a zero a rest, Roy
Wooten was able to use Pi to
write a Lullaby.
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1 : 1.618
1 / 0.618 = 1.618
Are we looking for and
subsequently finding the Golden
Ratio when it is not really there?
Are we just trying to put
our Frame of reference
on things like Time and
Length?
Make your own Golden Ratio Calipers
from Cardstock and Thumbtacks
Make your own Golden Ratio Calipers
from Cardstock and Thumbtacks
15/32 approximates 0.472 close enough

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