Is the world subject to the magic of numbers? The "Golden Section" is the ideal proportions of the harmony formula; artists, musicians, historians and architects, biologists and mathematicians tried to uncover its secret. For centuries, people have admired works of art created according to the principle of the "Golden Section", but who first applied it, why are people fascinated by these proportions, and what are the consequences of violations of this principle?
"Divine proportions" of the universe: fiction or reality?
In Moscow, in 2017, the mayor of the city, Sergei Sobyanin, launched a project for the renovation of a residential complex in the capital. It would seem that such a measure should be greeted with enthusiasm among the residents of the city. Indeed, instead of apartments in the old five-story buildings, which are subject to demolition, the townspeople are offered to move to new, comfortable houses. However, such an initiative on the part of the leadership of the capital provoked a negative reaction and people began to rally against the demolition of old buildings.
Physicist Aleksey Zolotarev suggests that the answer lies in the fact that the Khrushchev buildings of Moscow were built precisely according to the golden proportions. Most likely, the scientist suggests, people feel this, living in five-story buildings is very comfortable, people get sick less and therefore do not want to move anywhere. The physicist claims that there are special "cosmic" proportions for the construction of all residential systems, which has a numerical expression - 1.618. This figure has a sacred, mystical meaning.
Scientifically speaking, the digital expression is reflected in all fundamental principles of life, it concerns not only structures, objects of art, but also the very foundations of life and the universe, from microscopic bacteria to entire galaxies. The question arises: What is the golden ratio and how does it work?
Imagine an empty park bench where you want to sit down and relax. Instinctively, a person sits down not in the middle, but precisely on that segment of the bench that divides the bench according to the golden ratio into a smaller and larger segment.
The golden ratio can be seen in the growth of foliage on trees or on the human hand.
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An ancient trace: a mystical attempt to figure out a deity?
For the first time, an amazing pattern was discovered by the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras. The name of this thinker is known to all people, starting from school. However, not many people know that Pythagoras endowed numbers with a special meaning, recognizing mathematical principles as the basis of everything that exists.
The philosopher founded a special order, which was supposed to mathematically comprehend the laws of the universe and, through calculations, receive the gift of immortality and become equal to pagan deities. It should be noted that there were a lot of those wishing to become members of the order, but not everyone was in a hurry to initiate into the secrets of the universe, the selection was quite tough. The sacred knowledge of the Pythagoreans formed the basis of many secret organizations and cults.
In the Renaissance, they became interested in the secret of the golden section with renewed vigor, studying the heritage of the ancients, mathematicians, sculptors, artists, architects asked the same question. How did people manage to create many centuries ago, something from which it is impossible to take your eyes off now? Parthenon, Apollo Belvedere, Egyptian pyramids, there can be a huge number of examples.
For the first time about some ideal "divine" proportions in our era, Leonardo da Vinci spoke. For the first time in one of his works, he mathematically calculated the ideal proportion, which is not limited only to pure laws, because art is much more diverse than any human representation. The creator is guided by the laws of logic when working on his work, however, at an incomprehensible moment of creation of the work, the material laws are turned off, and only intuition remains, according to which the masterpiece is created. It is as if the meta-mind of the Universe infiltrates a person, and he only expresses the will of the cosmic intellect. The great Leonardo da Vinci described this in one of his works.
An example of the impossibility of being guided exclusively by mathematical calculations, discarding the mystical component of the process of creating a masterpiece, are the works of the famous Soviet architect Ivan Zholtovsky. As the architect himself has repeatedly stated, he created his projects using the mathematical value 1, 618. Three buildings have been built in Moscow according to the projects of this architect, and all of them do not cause any admiration, just buildings and nothing more.
During the reign of Khrushchev, the construction of small-sized five-story buildings began throughout the country. You can also see in them the golden ratio, the ratio of height, length, width 1, 618, however, equating these buildings with works of art is quite problematic.
The secrets of the universe are not in beauty?
Conspiracy theorists argue that the power of the "golden section" is not in beauty, but in the energy of a place built according to the rules of ideal proportions. It is not without reason that the proportions of the Great Pyramid contain the principle of the “golden section”. Scientists have already proven that truly amazing and paradoxical phenomena occur in the pyramid. Plants grow much faster, a person rests for several hours, healing and regeneration are much faster. Therefore, it is not strange that people do not want to leave their old, small apartments, because subconsciously they feel the beneficial influence of cosmic energies on their bodies.
Therefore, it is not strange that a masterpiece is not always comparable with ideal mathematical proportions that allow the astral energies of the universe to concentrate at a certain point in space. Of course, the creation of a unique object of culture is a mysterious, mystical process that goes beyond the boundaries of human speculation, opening access to the depths of the cosmic mind. It is absolutely another matter when humanity has realized the principles of the foundations of the passage of energies in space and, being guided by mathematical formulas, creates the correct structures, where the consolidation of astral energies takes place.
