Platonic Solids, Golden Ratio, Flower of Life

A Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron in which the faces are congruent regular polygons and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.  The five Platonic solids include the Tetrahedron, the Cube, the Octahedron, the Dodecahedron, and the Icosahedron.  They were named after Plato who thought the elements of air, fire, water, and earth were made from these solids.

The Golden Ratio is a ratio equal to 1.61803399. It is a ratio derived from nature and has the mathematical characteristics in which "sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. "  Many artists and architects have used the golden ratio in their works.  It is also called the Golden Section or Golden Mean.

a+b is to a as a is to b


The Flower of Life is omnipresent across the planet on ancient temples and ruins.  It appears to be a symbol that indicates the smallest increment of life.  Perhaps it is representing the Rutherford model of an atom or group of atoms.  The seed of life is a component of the Flower of Life.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flower-of-Life-small.png

Flower of Life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seed-of-Life.svg

Seed of Life

Considering the fact that carbon has 6 electrons and 6 protons and 6 neutrons and the Seed of Life has 6 petals, I find this to be an interesting similarity as most life forms on earch are made from carbon atoms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atom_diagram.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eight_Allotropes_of_Carbon.png


Allotropes of Carbon.


The most interesting thing of all is that these symbols and mathematical concepts exist in all ancient temples from thousands of years ago.  Where did they come up with the knowledge regarding these characteristics of atoms and patterns of nature?

By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_Life

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flower-of-Life-small.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eight_Allotropes_of_Carbon.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atom_diagram.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube