The Golden Ratio vs Entropy, unveiling the myth of it.

In the document at http://www.draaisma.net/gratio.pdf, the statements in this video are worked out mathematically. The number 1.618... is called the Golden Ratio, because it has been found in various geometrical structures of math, biological life and in Nature. Therefore it is often given a fundamental significance in spirituality (in religion as a "prove" for Intelligent Design). Nonetheless, I found that the same number can be derived from Boltzmann's entropy formula, by which such significance does not appear. It is not a specific number there, just one of an infinite other "possible" ones. Moreover, this number follows from setting negative and positive changes of entropy equal, which has no physical meaning, because the Second Law of Thermodynamics deems a negative change of entropy to have zero probability. In consequence, the number 1.618 cannot be a physical constant, not be a design parameter for "Creation".

However, from an analysis of arithmetic series of numbers, describing the increase of individuals of a polpulation, follows the golden ratio (the Fibonacci numbers), if continuous time is replaced with distinct time intervals. Because the golden ratio is observed in nature, we can conclude that time is quantized, which is not more 'divine' than math and physics are. Quantized time means there is a shortest, indivisible time-interval and indeed, our physical laws are not defined for time intervals shorter than the so called Planck-time (10^-42 seconds). Below it, we are faced with singularities (black holes, the initial Big-Bang, etc).

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Science & Technology

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• golden ratio
• entropy change
• entropy
• spirituality
• religion

[HighFlyingDutchman]

Sure everything is possible, but we should be very careful to analyze what we are seeing around us if we are really looking for the truth

Thanks for the video response