What would you say are the characteristics of nature?

[OsO]

i think that by studying nature one can gain a greater understanding of the universe and a better understanding of themselves.

that being said, what ARE the characteristics of the natural world? what attributes does the earth have? what attributes do insect, plants, and animals have?

i'd say birth, growth, decay, transformation is a pretty consistent natural law.

i also think cycles are found all throughout nature.

the female energy gives physical birth to offspring? Is there any species where the male gives birth?



what else?

 

[SirSmokeCrackAlot]

i think that by studying nature one can gain a greater understanding of the universe and a better understanding of themselves.

that being said, what ARE the characteristics of the natural world? what attributes does the earth have? what attributes do insect, plants, and animals have?

i'd say birth, growth, decay, transformation is a pretty consistent natural law.

i also think cycles are found all throughout nature.

the female energy gives physical birth to offspring? Is there any species where the male gives birth?

what else?

The female giving birth, laying the egg, etc is part of how we define what a female is. There are plants, bacteria, and such that are "asexual."

"nature" is pretty much everything that exist out side the abstract realm of your mind. I do think trying to understand it is very important. Understanding the natural world is the goal of science.

 

[Type Username Here]

Violence.

Chaos.

Greed.

Selfishness.

All found in nature.

 

[OPTiMO]

silence & stillness

 

[Carter G. Hoodson]

"Evolving" - CARTER G. HOODSON

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Math

The fact that most things in nature can be sum up by either the golden number (phi) or the Fibonacci series. It's mind boggling how it can be applies to plants, animals, planets and galaxies. There's truth to it.

http://www.goldennumber.net/nature.htm

 

[MeachTheMonster]

The "nature" of Nature is that it is ever changing and evolving. Nothing stays the same but nothing really changes either. The circle of life will never change be it on earth or anywhere else. It will just have different components but the outcome will be the same.

 

[Dooby]

Nature is everything in the universe. Thats it.

 

[Dras]

balanced ever changing chaos.

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Not doing your paper for you broski

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

balanced yet cold and calculating


Fibonacci number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Last Dayze]

evolution..revolution

order..chaos

truth..deceit

simple..complex

long arc..short sighted..

sound..sight(site)

infinite..barriers

build..destroy

 

[WhiteDawg3000]

subs

 

[SirSmokeCrackAlot]

balanced yet cold and calculating


Fibonacci number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And from one of the sources listed:

Fibonacci Flim-Flam.

Fibonacci Foolishness.

A search of the internet, or your local library, will convince you that the Fibonacci series has attracted the lunatic fringe who look for mysticism in numbers. You will find fantastic claims:

-The "golden rectangle" is the "most beautiful" rectangle, and was deliberately used by artists in arranging picture elements within their paintings. (You'd think that they'd always use golden rectangle frames, but they didn't.)

-The patterns based on the Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio and the golden rectangle are those most pleasing to human perception.

-Mozart used f in composing music. (He liked number games, but there's no good evidence that he ever deliberately used f in a composition.)

-The Fibonacci sequence is seen in nature, in the arrangement of leaves on a stem of plants, in the pattern of sunflower seeds, spirals of snail's shells, in the number of petals of flowers, in the periods of planets of the solar system, and even in stock market cycles. So pervasive is the sequence in nature (according to these folks) that one begins to suspect that the series has the remarkable ability to be "fit" to most anything!

-Nature's processes are "governed" by the golden ratio. Some sources even say that nature's processes are "explained" by this ratio.

Of course much of this is patently nonsense. Mathematics doesn't "explain" anything in nature, but mathematical models are very powerful for describing patterns and laws found in nature. I think it's safe to say that the Fibonacci sequence, golden mean, and golden rectangle have never, not even once, directly led to the discovery of a fundamental law of nature. When we see a neat numeric or geometric pattern in nature, we realize we must dig deeper to find the underlying reason why these patterns arise.

Pics and more info in the link.

 

[OsO]

Math

The fact that most things in nature can be sum up by either the golden number (phi) or the Fibonacci series. It's mind boggling how it can be applies to plants, animals, planets and galaxies. There's truth to it.

Nature and appearances of Phi, the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers

i was thinking about "geometrical" as a word to describe nature. i think it's interesting when people say our entire universe can be explained mathematically, but i want to hear more details about that.

i been studying the platonic solids and sacred geometry, and its crazy how it all relates back to aspects of chemistry... the way which atoms combine--and in what shapes they combine. and the transitioning of the fundamental elements from one state to another.