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I find the Fibonacci Numbers and The Golden Ratio more fascinating myself, due to it's almost ubiquitous presence in nature. Sea Shells, Flower Petals, Pine Cones, Plant Stems all follow this sequence, and paintings and architecture seem most pleasing to the eye when using this ratio. Neat stuff.
Chaos Theory is neat, though. I don't personally believe the obsession to find order is a constraint of human thinking. After all, we keep finding it! The thing is, since the big bang, the universe has gone from perfect order to more and more chaos, entropy continues to do it's work as the universe expands. Life is like a little, defiant shout against disorder, reversing entropy a tiny bit for just a blink of time. I think I heard somewhere that eventually matter and energy will dissapate over such a broad area that all the stars with snuff out and there won't be enough matter in any one place to form new ones. A Dark Universe, where only dust and low levels of infrared energy scuttle across an impossibly empty chasm of space. That would kind of suck. Maybe at some point the universe will contract again and we start the process all over?
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