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Nature’s Secret code or not, your ability to create will be off the charts!
The Fibonacci Sequence is one of the true wonders of numbers, even of nature. Sure, if you are a really smart mathematician, then perhaps you might not agree. Called by many “nature’s secret code,” the hard-core numbers people, the ones crushing them to send our fellow humans into space and return them somehow, will offer a “I am going to humor your innocence” type smile all the while nodding as we gush about the magic; our perceived affirmation that there is a higher and more supreme being guiding us.
It’s really quite simple to grasp. Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two numbers that precede it. So, the sequence goes: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 and so on. The mathematical equation describing it is Xn+2= Xn+1 + Xn. Really easy, right? Really cool, if you ask me.
The simplicity of this thing makes it truly beautiful
Numbers and I have never been close friends. When I stumbled upon this formula around twenty-five years ago, I felt — yes — reborn. Suddenly, everything around me took on a new meaning. The spirals feeding into themselves ever increasing or decreasing in the exact proportions as laid out by mathematicians using the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, jump started the creative parts of my brain. Leonardo of Pisa would introduce the sequence to the West and later in the 19th Century it became known as the “Fibonacci Sequence.”
The sequence is nature no matter how you look at it; and so, in a world of impending climatic tragedy, one where a novel coronavirus being is awoken after being tucked away for millions of years, the beautiful simplicity of Fibonacci’s numbers inspire me. They offer hope. If such a precise ordering hints so eloquently at the presence of a higher, smarter being than just maybe “it” won’t let us destroy this world.
Maybe, somewhere in the whirling and twirling, rapidly progressing numbers, we can find a remedy to intellectual laziness. Perhaps, fill a large hall, like the one in Tulsa, with hate-filled…
