Knowing that this number, the Golden Ratio, is present not just in mathematics, but may also be present within your own brain and body (at the atomic or subatomic level), what do you think it means? Is this number evidence of a grand design, a massive freak coincidence or something else?

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Rachael Solomon

1 November, 13:34

Knowing that this number, the Golden Ratio, is present not just in mathematics, but may also be present within your own brain and body (at the atomic or subatomic level), what do you think it means? Is this number evidence of a grand design, a massive freak coincidence or something else?

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Adelaide Moody · Answer 1

The Golden Ratio is a mathematical relationship that exists in art, shapes, nature and the human body. The golden ratio can be present in your body, from the length of your arms and legs when compared to your torso. Fingers is another example because the length of our fingers, each section from the tip of the base to the wrist is larger than the preceding.

The measurement of the human navel to the floor and to the top of the head to the navel is also the Golden ratio. Plastic surgeons and dental surgeons use it to reconstruct the human face. It also appears in everything around us like in the nature and science. It appears on in flower petals because it is believed that each petal is placed to so that each petal gets the best exposure to sunlight. Dolphins, starfish, sea urchins and honeybees also exhibit the proportion like humans. DNA molecules measures 34 angstroms by 21 angstroms at each full cycle of the double helix spiral, these two number are successive numbers. I think that the Golden Ratio is just a freak coincidence that happened.