I'm never one for complicated things, and neither am I one for new blog skins and templates. This one I guess will have to stick, although I know its not very masculine. But hey, who are we to decide that ballet is for women or misguided men, or that the colour black and rock music is for guys, or misguided women? In a bout of controversies, perhaps I'll mention the Da Vinci Code, which I found to be quite entertaining but quite controversial.. perhaps the Christian side of me leaped out and said 'This can't be right'. It certainly does loosen a few tight screws I had, and I'd better be more informed about what's right and what's fiction. Dan Brown has certainly created a great work of fiction. What fascinated me, besides the religious gibberish, was the mention of the mysterious number phi. It was used in the design of the Pyramids, on the Acropolis, and finds itself everywhere in the natural world. It also ties in with the famous Fibonacci sequence, where every subsequent value after 1 and 1 is the sum of the previous two numbers. If you keep on dividing every next value by the one before you it, you eventually come to, lo and behold, the number phi (which is 1.61803...). It's also known as the golden mean, and it's rather fascinating to see so directly a link between life and maths, something that hasn't really been something I had wanted to accept. I mean, wasn't maths supposed to be a model, a representation of real life to make things easy? Well that's enough for my math-side of the brain. Switch off to chemistry.. test tomorrow.

Written on Wednesday, September 29 at 8:40 PM