Especially for Matt (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 10:15 (5156 days ago) @ David Turell

This site on Fibonacci Flimflam may serve as something of an antidote to the video that claims Fibonacci spirals are the "fingerprint of god"!-http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm-"Nature has many spiral forms. None of them are golden spirals. Most don't even come close."-I notice that the title of the blog is the "Procrustean". Wasn't Procrustes the chap who stretched or squashed people to fit his bed? So presumably the blogger is aware that he is fitting these ideas to his own preconceptions.-I don't go quite as far as Simanek is dismissing Fibonacci numbers in nature as flimflam, they can certainly be observed in sunflowers and suchlike, though only as approximations. However the fitting of exponential spirals to galaxies certainly doesn't work, except superficially in the sense that all spirals resemble one another.

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GPJ