The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?

Just trying to think rationally about irrational things… Leave a comment and let me know what you thought of the video! I'm on Instagram @DrJoeHanson & @okaytobesmart

How to make Fibonacci soup? You need : 1. Yesterdays soup 2. Day before yesterdays soup

Funny Valentine has been real quiet since this has dropped

What’s neat about plants growing with the golden angle between their leaves or other parts is that they don’t have to be at the golden angle at the start. Leaves can adjust over time to maximize sunlight, settling into the golden ratio rather than forming it automatically.

The paper leaf part was so amazing. Genuinely creative way of explaining science

Him: Golden Ratio My brain: You mean Golden Spin?

Gyro and Johnny taking notes, then airdropping em to Gappy as we speak

Thanks for explaining this in depth! One of my past art teachers seemed to obsess over the golden ratio, telling us to look for it in art, and most of the time when they pointed it out in works, I just couldn't see it or things didn't seem to line up perfectly, like the shell you mentioned. I've been wondering about it ever since, and finally, I have clarity!

In Stell Ball Run(jojo part 7) they achieve the perfect rotation, by spinning steel balls(as well as nails) in the golden ratio, which when done perfectly will never stop spinning. Probably not possible irl, but still felt the need to share since i couldnt find any jojo refrences.

The fact that his name is Joe just makes this even more Canon to JJBA

What if you wanted to learn about the golden ratio, but then gyro said: lesson 5

Love how you integrate comedy to get your lessons easier to digest... wasn't really sure what the Golden Number was all about, now it' s clear!

A 5 to 6 proportion has an aesthetic quality for oil paintings I have preferred over the GR. Though for a long sided rectangle the GR is pristine. The GR enables much and is wondrous for designing a house, as it just makes everything seem to work quite easily. The GR really is an amazing phenomenon.

"Gyro, does this man know that technique?" "I don't know Johnny. I don't know."

damn. jojo got so popular that humans made the golden ratio in real life

Irrational numbers and ancient greeks bothered me until I realized what you mentioned in passing early in your video- "ratio" which requires two components. So it's not about the dividing of one into the other for a quotient but it is to consider the relationship itself which creates the geometric result. Geometry literally means "earth meausre'. It was decades ago now that I began to conceive of Phi as a geometric function and what fun I've had. The ancient architectures become clearer when you look through that lens. Great video and thank you for pushing through the myth a bit.

All I can hear is Gyro Zeppeli singing PIZZA MOTZARELLA

OK but I DO want to watch that golden ratio documentary that was mentioned in the pre roll ad. The host looked a lot like Joe, weird.

I just found the word golden ratio in my maths textbook and I googled it and saw this vid so I clicked on it and now I feel like I'm in a cult or something.

I did pick the golden rectangle in the beginning, but only because I knew the "right" answer would be credit card shaped, so I looked for the most credit card looking rectangle... it didnt "feel" more special than the others. Everyone knows that the perfect rectangle shape is the one used for the A-series of paper sizes anyway, ie any rectangle with a ratio of 1:root 2