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Ok, then by that thinking, you should find it really interesting that Earth escape velocity is almost exactly ϕ^4 miles per second.

In fact, adding exponents here objectively makes it less interesting, because it increases the search space for coincidences.

What makes the case in the post most interesting to me is that it looks at first glance like it must be a coincidence, and then it turns out not to be.




You would need a compelling argument why x^4 is interesting. Especially something like the golden ratio.

Not a long of things go to the fourth power in equations we need to use. Pi^2 directly features in periodicity




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