the occurrence of the golden ratio in nature (space, earth, animals, etc) is what makes a lot of scientists believe in *some* form of higher being.
And yet to date they have still not found a practical application for itI do know that a lot of photographers and artist use it for composition.
It gets quite a bit of use in the stock market, especially technical analysis. Look at Fibonacci Levels.
mindfuck time:
the golden ratio is the only number in existence, where if you square it, it just adds one, but if you raise it to the -1 power, it subtracts 1. i.e.:
1.618...^2 = 2.618..
1.618^(-1) = 0.618...
the occurrence of the golden ratio in nature (space, earth, animals, etc) is what makes a lot of scientists believe in *some* form of higher being.
Don't believe it? Take honeybees, for example. If you divide the female bees by the male bees in any given hive, you will get 1.618. Sunflowers, which have opposing spirals of seeds, have a 1.618 ratio between the diameters of each rotation. This same ratio can be seen in relationships between different components throughout nature.
Still don't believe it? Need something that's easily measured? Try measuring from your shoulder to your fingertips, and then divide this number by the length from your elbow to your fingertips. Or try measuring from your head to your feet, and divide that by the length from your belly button to your feet. Are the results the same? Somewhere in the area of 1.618? The golden ratio is seemingly unavoidable.