The hidden language found in nature

We are in a fascinating era, where engineers have managed to make a rover land on the planet Mars, there are physicists who investigate the essence of matter in the large hadron collider and we communicate through a wireless network throughout our planet.

But behind all these modern advances there is something mysterious among us, some call it the language of our universe.

The maths

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Human beings have always searched for patterns in nature, thousands of years ago they contemplated the stars and discovered something they called constellations, they even believed that they controlled our destiny.

They watched as the day gave way to night, and night to day; and how the seasons happened. They called this pattern, time.

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We see symmetrical patterns in the human body, and we incorporate them into what we create, from art to our cities.

But what does that say to us? Why the spiral shape of the naitilus shell is so similar to that of a galaxy or the spiral we see when we cut a cabbage?

When scientists want to understand the patterns of our world, they often resort to a powerful tool, mathematics. They quantify their observations and use mathematical techniques to examine them hoping to discover the underlying causes in the rhythm of nature, and it works.

Revealing from the hidden secrets, after the orbits of the planets to the electromagnetic waves that connect our mobile phones. Mathematics even leads us to the subatomic constructive parts of matter.

But WHY DO THEY WORK?

Leonardo de Pisa Fibonacci

The numbers surround us, they are everywhere, as it is, the Fibonacci Succession is a series of numbers developed by the Italian mathematician of the thirteenth century.

The sequence is described as follows: "Start with 0 1 and add the last two numbers to give the next number", that is:

0+1 = 1
1+1 = 2
1+2 = 3
2+3 = 5... successively.

0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 33 54 87...

The truth is that this sequence appears frequently in nature, especially in botany.

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The mysterious connections between the physical world and mathematics are very deep. As for example the number we all know, "Pi (π)".

"It is the relation between the length of a circle and its diameter, its decimal digits continue to infinity without following a repetitive pattern"

Pi (π) is also found among us, for example in the models of anything where waves have the Number (π), the same happens with light and sound. Pi (π) tells us what colors should appear in a rainbow and what a half do on a piano will sound like. It also appears in the glow of a supernova.

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Pi (π) is just one more example of a vast network of interconnected mathematics that seems to reveal an order, hidden and deep in our world.

Max Tegmark

^Cosmologist

Tegmark ensures that our life can be compared to that of a player inside a video game.

Let's imagine that we are a scientist inside a video game of computer and we begin to explore the world that surrounds us, we would run into obstacles, prizes, etc. But we felt that we live in a real world, made of physical matter.

Then, as a scientist we are, we begin to explore the physical properties of matter, what would we find? Yes, we would discover finally, mathematical properties that a program used to create the video game software.

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The rules as an object falls or jumps, are algorithms or codes introduced by a programmer so that the object allows to perform that determined action.

Basically all the formulas and equations give shape to the whole universe of a video game.

Is it possible that our real life is like that of a video game?

Max, believes that the only thing that can describe physical properties are mathematics. As for example, in a photograph when we zoom in a lot but a lot we see a pixel field that determines the amount of colors red, green and blue (RGB), this combination allows you to create a composite color according to the amount of each color between 0-256. That is, each color is identified by a number.

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Mathematics can be traced back to ancient Greece.

Pythagoras

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The story tells that Pythagoras investigated the affinity between mathematics and music.

The ancient Greeks found three relations between especially pleasant notes, now we call them Eighth, Fifth and Fourth.

The Pythagoreans loved numbers, the fact that simple relations produced harmonious sounds was the proof that there was a hidden order in the natural world and that order was made with numbers. Nowadays mathematics and scientists are still exploring in that direction.

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In Ancient Greece Pythagoras and his followers had a profound influence on another Greek philosopher, Plato.

Plato

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Plato believed that geometry and mathematics existed in his own ideal world. Plato liked 5 solids, Platonic solids as they are currently called.

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He assigned them the elements that formed the world according to his conception.
The cube or hexahedron has as element the earth.

The tetrahedron with its pointed corners was fire.

The octahedron was identified with the air.

The 20-sided icosahedron is identified with the water.

The dodecahedron is the solid that represents the cosmos of the entire universe.

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The mathematical forms of Plato were the ideal version of the world around us. Through Science, Technology and Engineering have transformed the planet and have allowed us to go much further.

Adam Steltzner

^Engineer

In 2012, engineers and scientists managed to get a rover named Curiosity the size of a car to land on the planet Mars.

Steltzner was the chief engineer of the team that designed the landing system, his work depended on a revolutionary work of the Renaissance, which made mathematics the language of science, the law of the free fall of bodies .

The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that heavier objects fell faster than lighter objects. An idea that superficially makes sense.

The idea was so reasonable until the end of the sixteenth century was rebutted by an Italian mathematician, Galileo Galilei.

According to the legend Galileo dropped two cannon balls of different sizes from the tower of Pisa.

What happened?

The two cannon balls touched the floor at the same time. Galileo showed that Aristotle was wrong. If we drop a hammer and a feather in the ground, due to the air conditions the feather would take longer to touch the ground.

But if we drop the same objects on the moon where the air is absent, the objects would fall at the same speed and touch the ground at the same time. This is demonstrated by astronaut Scott in the Apollo 15 mission.

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So, if we take the equations out of the air in the earth, everything would fall at the same speed.

In Galileo's vision mathematics could be used as a tool to unveil and discover the hidden rules of our world.

He wrote:

"Mathematics is the alphabet with which our God has written the universe"

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So almost 200 years ago, when it was observed that the planet Uranus deviated from its orbit scientists relied on mathematics and calculated that it was being attracted to another planet that had never been seen and that's how they discovered Neptune.

Thanks to mathematics the existence of an unknown planet was predicted until then.

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The evidences of the amazing predictive power of mathematics are everywhere around us. The television, the radio, the mobile phone, the satellites, the Wi-Fi, a GPS, even the remote control of the television, all these things use invisible waves of energy to communicate and nobody knew that they existed until they knew the work of a young.

James Maxwell

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In 1860 he published a set of equations that explained how electricity and magnetism were related, and how they generated each other.

Together, electricity and magnetism could produce invisible waves that would travel through space at the speed of light, electromagnetic waves.

Almost immediately they began looking for the waves that Maxwell's equations had predicted.

Guillermo Marconi

A 20-year-old boy started an experiment that started with sparks.

The explosion of electricity creates a momentary magnetic field that creates another momentary electric field and that in turn forms another magnetic field.

The energy jumps between the two propagating an electromagnetic wave. This experiment was done in a small study, but when it worked, it expanded.

He built an antenna on a hill and a receiver more than 1500 meters away. When it sent the signal it was received successfully, in less than 10 years Marconi already sent radio signals through the Atlantic Ocean.

In fact, he was responsible for saving many lives when the Titanic sank in 1912, because his equipment aboard allowed to send the distress signal.

Thanks to Maxwell's equations, Marconi was able to control a hidden part of our world, inaugurating the era of wireless communication.

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Conclusion

As you can see, the subject of mathematics is very interesting, more interesting than what they taught you in school. It is a very broad topic, what I have researched in this publication falls short.

It is amazing how mathematics can be a hidden code in our world, mathematics is not wrong, it is accurate if it is done in a good way.

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Before this publication I saw boring maths, but this information that I have collected from different sites indicates that our world is numbers, numbers everywhere. As well as a programming language, C ++, Java, etc ... make up the algorithms of a video game or software, the equations and formulas are the mathematical language of our universe.

The subject has been a bit extensive because it deserves it, I hope you have found this publication interesting.

Greetings Stemians!

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