Today in class we talked a lot about circles of motion. This is an idea of Aristotle's that says some things change in a continuous, circular cycle, rather than a linear cycle. While we were discussing this, I started thinking about this theory I learned about in a movie, Pi. The movie is about a man who spends his time researching the number pi. He believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers, and that if you graph the numbers properly patterns will emerge. His theory, along with other researchers, has to do with the fact that the circular, pi spiral is found frequently in nature. Some argue that it can be found almost anywhere. Some places the spiral occurs are in the Nautilus Shell, Ram's horns, milk in coffee, the face of a Sunflower, your fingerprints, our DNA, and the shape of the Milky Way.
This movie goes on to try and find the pattern in the number pi, which he believes will lead him to patterns in nature. He spends the majority of his life trying to find this pattern.
Does anybody feel as though these spirals may link us to every other thing in the world? Or at least, other things that have spirals? The patterns may pose a connection that we share with everything - all is one?
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I don't really agree with this concept at all. I think that spirals are popular because of any shape with a certain volume, or the amount of space a shape will take up, a sphere or circle takes up the smallest surface area with the greatest volume. This is one of the reasons why a drop of water will take on a spherical shape, or possibly a reason why the earth and planets took on a spherical shape after the big bang. I think maybe that spheres and circular patterns might just show up in our lives consistently because that is the most reasonable shape for things to become. The mathematics of a sphere make it the most plausible and "best" shape to take form of.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if everything is linked by these spirals, but I definitely think that mathematical patterns are present in nature. I can recall reading about Fibonacci sequences being present in bee hives and the length of human limbs. Its odd to see something seemingly random, like nature, abide by rules of math.
ReplyDeleteI think this could show how everything may have come from one thing, like the big bang theory.
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