Discuss Sunflowers Turing and Fibonacci numbers.... in The Science Forum on The Army Rumour Service; Being a bit of a Alan Turing fan plus living near Alan Turing Way in Manchester I found this article interesting.......
BBC News - Greater Manchester sunflowers to test Alan Turing theory...
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About LinkBacks- 22-03-2012, 14:52 #1
Sunflowers Turing and Fibonacci numbers....
Being a bit of a Alan Turing fan plus living near Alan Turing Way in Manchester I found this article interesting.......
BBC News - Greater Manchester sunflowers to test Alan Turing theory
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- 29-03-2012, 12:56 #2
This, along with fractals, is quite a fascinating concept. Patterns in nature, when nature is supposedly chaotic.
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- 29-03-2012, 14:34 #3
I've always thought of nature as ordered and structured. Anything else would be dreadfully inefficient. The chaos and struggle exist at the margins.
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The same concepts are used in market predictions. Fibonacci retracements are a basic concept.
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It seems to me that snow flakes are a good example of underlying forces producing symetrical shapes. I'm not sure how gravity or lack of it affects 'Fibonacci' growth in sunflowers...? Without gravity their appearance may be much more random...
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