The cure for AIDs has been found. All you have to do is inject all your money into your veins. As for the prime number, I very much agree. I got finished reading 'The Golden Ratio' recently and was left with very much a feeling of "Hm.... that's interesting, but I don't see how any of this is really significant, just very strange." The discussion reminded me somewhat of this xkcd comic. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/string_theory.png
Don't get me started on string theory. It's a waste of time, but in a different sense. It had promise, until people realized it was pseudoscience, just like creationism and psi. And I liked 'The Golden Ratio' (by Mario Livio, right?). The author looked at phi's relationship with art very skeptically, as opposed to a few other books I've read on the subject (chock full of ad ignorantiam).
That's the one. And I did like his skepticism about it, specifically in the chapter on Egypt and the pyramids. But I don't see it really applying to anything outside of the things encompassed in the patterns.
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The cure for AIDs has been found. All you have to do is inject all your money into your veins.
As for the prime number, I very much agree. I got finished reading 'The Golden Ratio' recently and was left with very much a feeling of "Hm.... that's interesting, but I don't see how any of this is really significant, just very strange."
The discussion reminded me somewhat of this xkcd comic. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/string_theory.png
Don't get me started on string theory. It's a waste of time, but in a different sense. It had promise, until people realized it was pseudoscience, just like creationism and psi. And I liked 'The Golden Ratio' (by Mario Livio, right?). The author looked at phi's relationship with art very skeptically, as opposed to a few other books I've read on the subject (chock full of ad ignorantiam).
That's the one. And I did like his skepticism about it, specifically in the chapter on Egypt and the pyramids. But I don't see it really applying to anything outside of the things encompassed in the patterns.
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