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To: FormerLurker
If you had ever studied the history of mathmatics [sic], you would have a better understanding of the term.

If you had ever studied Mathematics, you would know that "Sacred Geometry" is a nothing more than the product of mystical astonishment on the part of people whose understanding of Mathematics was nowhere near what it is today. Modern Mathematicians don't waste much of their time on "gee-whiz" stuff like "what's the value of Phi to a bazillion decimal places?"

If I am wrong about this, then there should be no shortage of non-introductory or non-remedial course offerings that are devoted to the study of "Sacred Geometry" in the Math Department course catalogs of virtually every top-50 University.

But I've never heard of any of them offering such a course...

OTOH, such things as "Phi," the "Golden ratio," etc., are widely covered in intro-level survey courses for non-technical majors and in History of Mathematics type courses, as curiosities from a bygone era of Mathematics.

Now, if space aliens are smart enough to do the Mathematics it would take to do the physics of designing spacecraft that can travel the galaxy, and if they were visiting Earth, would they be stomping messages about some mystical, naive "Sacred Geometry" in wheat fields, or would they be more likely to depict some more advanced Mathematical message that would clearly denote their technical sophistication?

And so I ask, why is it we haven't seen a crop circle depicting the Lagrange Points of an planetary system, for example? (Which, as an aside, would not be proof that space aliens made the crop circle; hoaxters can just as well calculate Langrange Points as well as putative space aliens.)

180 posted on 07/26/2002 9:13:16 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
If you had ever studied Mathematics, you would know that "Sacred Geometry" is a nothing more than the product of mystical astonishment on the part of people whose understanding of Mathematics was nowhere near what it is today.

If YOU had ever studied Mathematics, you'd know that the Mathematicians who studied "Sacred Geometry" gave us our most basic and fundamental knowledge of Mathmematics and Geometry.

Modern Mathematicians don't waste much of their time on "gee-whiz" stuff like "what's the value of Phi to a bazillion decimal places?"

Well then I guess the University of Arizona (amongst others) must be living in the stone age...

The Golden Ratio

If I am wrong about this, then there should be no shortage of non-introductory or non-remedial course offerings that are devoted to the study of "Sacred Geometry" in the Math Department course catalogs of virtually every top-50 University.

But I've never heard of any of them offering such a course...

One example..

University of Buffalo - EGYPTIAN GEOMETRY

OTOH, such things as "Phi," the "Golden ratio," etc., are widely covered in intro-level survey courses for non-technical majors and in History of Mathematics type courses, as curiosities from a bygone era of Mathematics.

Your ignorance of the topic is quite obvious here. Phi is a universal constant that is used in Mathematics, Physics, and related fields such as Geometry and Astronomy. The Golden Mean is also widely used. Even DNA follows the Golden Section.

DNA

The The Fibonacci Numbers are used extensively and relate to the golden ratio, and can even be found in the Mandlebrot set.

Fibonacci Number

Boston University - The Fibonacci Series

Mandelbrot Morsels

The Mathematics of the Fibonacci series

The Math Forum @ Drexel

e-zgeometry.com

dmoz.org

The Fib-Phi Link Page

Now, if space aliens are smart enough to do the Mathematics it would take to do the physics of designing spacecraft that can travel the galaxy, and if they were visiting Earth, would they be stomping messages about some mystical, naive "Sacred Geometry" in wheat fields, or would they be more likely to depict some more advanced Mathematical message that would clearly denote their technical sophistication?

They more than likely would depict something that you wouldn't understand, be it fractals or the Pythagorian Theorum. "Sacred Geometry" has been around since at least the Egyptians, and more than likely so have they.

219 posted on 07/26/2002 11:32:24 PM PDT by FormerLurker
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