February 9, 2015
WE ARE ALL DESIGNIST NOW:
Strange Stars Pulsate According to the "Golden Ratio" (Clara Moskowitz, 2/09/15, Scientific American)
Scholars have seen the golden ratio in nautilus shells, the Parthenon, da Vinci paintings and now in stars. A new study of variable stars observed by the Kepler space telescope found four stars that pulsate at frequencies whose ratio is near the irrational number 0.61803398875, known as the Greek letter phi, or the golden ratio (which is also sometimes referred to as the inverse of that number, 1.61803398875...).
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 9, 2015 11:53 AM
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