Tuesday

Looking at Pi and the ratio of relevance

 Niels Bohr, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics chose a Taoist symbol for his families coat of arms, reflecting the unity of opposites and the duality of contradictions in nature much like Lau Tsu, 3000 years before him.

A man who spent his life's work to study the polarized states of quantum particle duality, Bohr observed how matter manifest to the eye of the beholder, and how particles sway to shared intent in entangled awareness. He watched how electrons oscillate in bands of energy and atoms respond to a change in the environment. He witnessed how the fundamental building blocks of matter and ancient tenants of I Ching complement each other in ways that baffle the laws of physics and probability that blows every perspective in to one, single, quintessential conclusion. ncient Chinese wisdom rule, and the Taoist understanding of the universe was right all along.





The Bagua is a symbol of ancient Chinese origin and is formed by eight trigrams of broken and unbroken lines surrounding a symbol that represent the nature of change and the nurture of flow was penned by a scribe called Lau Tsu circa 600BC. 'The Book of Change' or I Ching has survived in it's original form. 


Used throughout antiquity as the subject of philosophical study and intellectual discourse it is arguably one of the most important and fundamental literary works in all of antiquity.


In his 1975 book, “The Tao of Physics,” physicist Fritjof Capra wrote that this octagonal pattern is similar in certain ways to the meson octet “in which particles and antiparticles occupy opposite places.”



According to Capra that the concept of structure and change is similar. “Both modern physics and ancient Chinese thought consider change and transformation as the primary aspect of nature and see the structures and symmetries generated by the changes as secondary,”

And while this may be true as far as his and ancient Chinese thought on the matter, quite the opposite is true from a Chinese mathematician's perspective.In the realm of geometry the relation between change and symmetry is a given. A universal constant defined by a mathematical equation known as the Golden Ratio or phi.