The Golden Ratio Is it bunk? Or is there something to it? Or Does it matter?

The Golden Ratio• Is it bunk?

• Or

• is there something to it?

• Or

• Does it matter?

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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