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Golden ratio hate thread

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>golden rectangles inferior to squares, which are clearly more beautiful
>golden spiral is ugly and gets too big to fast, inferior to the simple graph r=theta in polar coordinates
>golden ratio literally never found in nature, schizos just overemphasize every time a ratio is approximately 1.6
>is the root of a quadratic, literally the mathematically least interesting kind of irrational number
Defend this, /sci/
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Canter’s diagonalization proof seems like obvious broken logic to me. What is stopping me from lining up all zero-padded natural numbers and showing there must be more natural numbers than natural numbers? I came across a video from a respected youtuber talking about it and recall being taught it in school.
Video for context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo&t=269s
Even if you want to say zero padding is somehow not valid, you could just remove the '0.' from the real numbers in his example and they should be unique natural numbers.
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Understanding quantum physics

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I am a student finishing my Masters in physics and I will be taking a gap year before I start a PhD. I plan to use some of this time to self study some of the courses I have already taken, in order to deepen my understanding and to form better intuition. I would like some advice and resources on how to "actually understand" quantum physics.

To make this question more specific I think I should explain what I mean by this. What do I consider "actual understanding"?

A quick answer to this question is that I am taking an instrumentalist approach to quantum theory and ideally I would like to study detailed descriptions of quantum experiments so that I can better understand exactly how the mathematical models that I have been taught in class correspond to the results of these experiments. I am stressing the word "results" here because I am not really interested in what is happening in between the measurements since it is still an open question (the interpretations of the quantum formalism). Essentially, I want to equip myself with all the experimentally verifiable facts before I can dive into deeper topics.

To make the above more concrete:
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>no units in nature
>maths is somehow real
???
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One of the great contemporary genius' of our time
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Has agricultural land productivity peaked?
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Just found out I have melanoma (skin cancer). How fucked am I?
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>unemployed
>have mental health issues
>no income
>no GF
>Low IQ

It's over
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Mushroom growing

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- ¡Hi anons! Bio student here. For years I have tried to grow Psilocybin mushrooms but I can't get past the first steps.
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Covid Vaccine News

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I feel with the growing division regarding the vaccine that I am unable to find trustworthy information about the topic. Is there any place where I can get good information about the vaccine?
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