A peaceful heartbeat is said by some to beat in a Phi rhythm.
The prominent parts of an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) are the P wave, a deflection caused by the current originating in the atrium; the QRS complex, showing the passage of the electrical activity into the ventricles; and the T wave, as the ventricles reset themselves. The electrocardiograms (ECG or EKG) of human heartbeats vary considerably depending on a variety of factors.
The former site Heartbeat2000 saught to study the relationships between the physical heart and the spiritual heart, that is the soul, of human beings. The views presented there suggest that a heartbeat that produces a phi relationship in the T point of the ECG represents a state of being that is one of health, peace and harmony.
While this is an area that still needs research and scientific corroboration, it is an interesting perspective on another potential appearance of phi in life.
EKG’s show a resemblance to the Fibonacci Convergence.
As explained on the Fibonacci Series page, the ratio of each successive pair of numbers in the Fibonacci series (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, . . .) converges onphi (1.618. . .) as you go higher in the series.
The first numbers in the series give an approximation of phi. For example:
| 1 | / | 0 | = | ∞ |
| 1 | / | 1 | = | 1 |
| 2 | / | 1 | = | 2 |
| 3 | / | 2 | = | 1.5 |
| 5 | / | 3 | = | 1.666.. |
| 8 | / | 5 | = | 1.6 |
| 13 | / | 8 | = | 1.625 |
Curiously, if you graph these approximations of phi in the series above you get the chart below, the first part of which bears a similarity to the EKG pattern of the human heartbeat.
The law of his (e.g., David’s) God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. Psalms 37:31Insight on relationship of Fibonacci Convergence contributed by Robert Bartlett, who notes:
The law of his (e.g., David’s) God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Psalms 37:31
You can call me crazy if you will, but at the 3rd hour of the morning on Thursday, June 07, 2012 while I was communing with GOD via my daily venerations, devotions and adorations, I was illuminated/enlightened by GOD with HIS wisdom through the Holy Spirit to know and truly believe that the old Yiddish/Hebrew name of GOD which is YAHWEH (ya’oo’ah) if said in repetition as it was originally pronounced in Aremaic would sound just the same as if you were listening to the human heart beating through an ultrasound machine. Today, I just came to the public library in an attempt to download samples and listen to human heartbeat tracks and stumbled across this website. I was immediately so entralled, in seeing and relating/connecting like a big puzzle this website’s information to the wisdom I was recently given, I just started writing this comment to be posted without even reading all of this website’s information. I will now print and review all of this information at a later time. But, I truly believe we are onto something. May GOD bless us with HIS grace and HIS wisdom, so we may all carry HIS peace and have the ability to forever find HIS LOVE so we can share the LOVE in HIS honor to each and every one of all mankind. With this I invoke the power of the blood and the name of HIS son, the true Christ, Jesus. AMEN.
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We are not made by chance. Thanks for sharing your given word of wisdom.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Isaiah 55:8-9 KJV
I can safely say that this area doesn’t need any more research to be proved correct: it just is. It’s obviously the truth, and it’s how nature works. This is like Newton and the apple; when he first explained gravity, it was violently opposed by the narrow-minded people of government. People did many experiments and checked every detail of how “gravity” affects the Earth. But now it is evident that gravity is there and appears in every aspect of our lives. As does Phi. It’s just how nature works. To try to prove otherwise would be suicide.
People weren’t created by mistake: nature doesn’t just run willy-nilly. It has a system, and if something doesn’t follow that system it’s faulty. There’s no way to really explain it or really put it in words (yet). It’s just there. And because it’s there, and also part of us, it just makes sense. It clicks.
Phi is part of us,
It’s what makes us natural:
Chaos turned order.
Awesome haiku, right? Do haikus run on Phi, too?
Like your haiku! You are right, neither theists nor atheists can argue about this, it is clear that humans have a system, a complicated set of directions that none of us yet know how to read. We can read some odd lines, like chemicals, digestion, gravity, but that is just one page. There are millions yet to be read, and, the hardest part, understood.
I saw an old film the other day where the name of God needed to be spelt out on stepping stones… you know the one. The first step was wrong because it was the letter “J” as in Jehovah.
As you may know it was correctly done like this… i e h o a.
If you try saying it, it comes out like “HO”. (silent vowls) As in Holy or Ho Ho Ho.
Whom has heard Father’s laugh… whom here has an open ear lobe on Earth’s Globe?
Love to all. Bob x
Anyone that discourages thought and critical thinking at any time is NOT your friend. ALL things should be question, tested and validated. Your appeal to people to just accept this and that it doesn’t need more researched is frankly rubbish. I am not making a claim to the veracity of this claim, but your attitude and advice to others regarding this topic is outright dangerous.
I agree 100% that critical thinking is imperative and all claims should be validated, and devote a lot of effort to that for everything presented on this site. I’m not sure what you read that you see as an “appeal to people to just accept this and that it doesn’t need more research.”
The article makes several very clear statements as to the tenuous connection to the EKG to the golden ratio, saying “Heartbeat2000 SAUGHT TO STUDY the relationships” and “the VIEWS presented there SUGGEST …” AND “While this is an area that STILL NEEDS RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC CORROBORATION, it is an INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE on another POTENTIAL appearance of phi in life.”
I have a hunch that anyone actually reading the words in the article that I’ve bolded here would come away with a pretty good idea that this was just an interesting observation and not an appeal to accept it as scientific fact.
Well said, Pinky. I would like to add that if we all accepted whatever resonated with our current level of understanding, then we’d not only be missing out on an opportunity to expand on what we think we understand, but we’d also develop a better understanding about why we thought we understood it in the first place. Religion has its place, but I highly doubt its original purpose was to discourage people from solving problems. I would add that it was only after certain individuals, who aspired to remain in high stations, realized they could use religious beliefs as a way to gain power and maintain control over others, are the ones who would have you believe that some things just “are”, and you should leave it at that. I would appreciate if the person who made the original post would familiarize themselves with the term, “entropy”, as it is one of many consequences when we don’t put any thought into why things behave the way they do.
Pinky makes a great point that ” ALL things should be question, tested and validated,” but is off base in saying that the article “appealed to people to just accept this and that it doesn’t need more researched” and that the “attitude and advice to others regarding this topic is outright dangerous.” Where does the article say anything at all like that? Paul notes that this is “an opportunity to expand on what we think we understand,” and to “also develop a better understanding about why we thought we understood it in the first place.”
If you get beyond this one “interesting observation” article to read the content of the entire site, you’ll find that this is one of the primary purposes of the site. The About page in fact says, “The overriding goal of the site is simply to share phi, and the experience of seeing the mathematics of design and beauty that appears all around us and within us, and to ponder more deeply the meanings to be found in that.”
Uh, and all those who are not familiar with Golden Ratio and making claims such as rubbish? LOL thats just as insane as believing in the book of riddles… The only wave in existence which is capable of creating constructive interference is golden ratio proportioned. Everything natural was initially golden ratio, that is the only way matter is capable of manifesting. They two energy points of photosynthesis? Plank Length and Time multiplied by powers of Golden Ratio. The heart pattern has been extensively measured, just like the brain waves when feeling bliss and love…Golden Ratio. The most prevelant angle in nature is 137.5 degrees 360x.382=137.52. Even rainbows. The moon and earth together, Golden Ratio. The spacing of the planets, Golden Ratio. The 3 radii of Hydrogen, Golden Ratio. So many mic drop moments, hopefully you get it now? Maybe not… How about, the periodic table has never been accurate and they’ve never known how to properly express it…. Yeah, look it up, Hydrogen in the middle and a Golden Ratio spiral… now its perfect.
Golden Ratio “rubbish? LOLOLOL what an amazing thread. First those who were religious believing it proves a Christian “god” exists, and then individuals who are anti-religion who attempted to scorn them by undermining the Golden Ratio.
Wow, what a blast this last 10 minutes have been. Truly, thank you all.
Today is sunday, sep 6,2020. We went to church this morning and the pastor also mentioned this verse: Psalm 37:31. And as soon as I got home . I went and opened my computer to do my assignment in math-which was to look for objects that shows the golden ratio and Fibonacci sequences. I used my drawing of a heart as one of my examples, and here I am looking for explanations and references -just to find this exact same verse on the exact same day. God is truly an amazing God!