[RadioAstronomer]

I'd be curious to hear what the Scientific community here thinks about things like the Golden Mean and Mandelbrot sets. Reoccurring patterns throughout nature.

Sigh. Started to write my post and fell asleep on the computer. Woke up about 3am.

Anyhoo, here are two pages I found that pretty much sums up what I was going to post.

Again my apologies.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

http://www.nexusjournal.com/Sharp_v4n1-intro.html

[Doctor Stochastic]

Note that Max(a,b)/(a+b) (for positive a,b) is always closer to the golden section than Min(a,b)/Max(a,b) is.

Some musicologists noted that, in Mozart's sonatas, ratios of exposition and development+recap, etc. were close to the golden secion but that total/development+recap was even closer. The used the above relation to show that this is always true. No musicological explanation needed.