Whenever I think of the word science, I imagine scientists wearing a white
lab coat. However, science is more than that; science if everything that is
around us, it is knowledge in an organized and structured way so we can
understand how things work. And if we take a deep look into the concept of
science, we may discover different other disciplines that we never thought they
were classified as science. For example MATHS. I've never liked maths, but there are a lot of things that
are fascinating: how numbers can give us exact answers to certain questions.
In this sense, the Fibonacci
Number, which I find amazingly
interesting and almost magical, is a sequence of numbers resulting of the
addition of the previous number. Let me put this in a clearer way:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89...........
1+0 = 1
3+2 = 5
1+1 = 2
5+3 = 8
2+1 = 3
8+5 = 13..............
Got it?
Why do I find this so fascinating? mainly because this
sequence is EVERYWHERE. It
is in nature; in the arrangement of leaves in a stem, pine cones,
flowers, even in the reproduction of bees! Let’s look at this sea shell: its
shape and size is perfectly proportional to the numerical Fibonacci sequence,
in which the numbers 1 - 1-2-3 are part of the base of the sea shell, and the
bigger numbers 5-8-13 are part of the largest part of it.
In addition, the sequence can be found in music and
paintings. It is fascinating because scientists keep searching for more clues
in which we could find the Fibonacci number presence. Maths and nature never
stop surprising us!
I invite you to listen to Tool - Lateralus, enjoy
the music, and count the syllabes of the lyrics, which are in perfect
coordination with the first 5 numbers of the sequence.
So, if numbers can explain perfection in nature, can they explain our purpose on Earth, or were we come from?
Reading your entry I ask myself: "What makes science posible?" I think that scientific research is possible because the physical world is orderly and because energy and matter behave in a predictable, uniform manner in a given set of circumstances. This order can be expressed in the fundamental laws of mathematics (as you wrote), physics, chemistry, and so on. Without such order, scientific work, technology, and life itself could simply not exist. Maybe, this can not explain our purpose on Earth but explain the origin of nature. I always remember a quote that Freeman Dyson - a physicist- said once: "reality seems awfully designed and, in some ways, too good to be here through pure chance." Possibly understanding who created the world, we could understand or, at least, figure out our purpose in life then.
ReplyDeleteI agree. That is one of the answers I was expecting to receive! Everything has its reason to be, and its structure. All those little details that sometimes we find useless or too little to mean something important, are the ones that give us the answer to even bigger questions. Reality is more than our human eye can see, and it is fascinating in the sense that we, as humans, are part of this incredible world.
ReplyDeleteAs the Fibonacci Number, there are a lot of other formulas, discoveries that can get us closer to the truth.