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NB: Please keep lett .. more Letters to the Editor “sis>"= Letters to the Editor more I have magnificent pottery with | tem. He used them in composi- | person you knew is no longer | now for some years. exquisitely beautiful geometric | tion, as have many architects | there. Has anyone else noticed The reason "over unity" cannot decorations. I've ascertained that | since (your servant included). If | this? possibly exist is simply because these prehistoric inhabitants had | Le Corbusier's architecture is not | Yours sincerely, the Universe is at unity, and unity astounding knowledge in micro- | modern art, what is? Gloria Prema, Aberdeenshire, | cannot be transcended. "Under biology, anatomy, mathematics, And this is but one example, | UK, gloria@the-coppings.fsnet. | unity" exists and can be tran- physics, astronomy and construc- | because contemporary painters, | co.uk scended, but once unity has been tion. I've found many, many | sculptors, etc. have made as wide [This is a very timely letter, | reached it cannot be exceeded or interesting things... a use of the Golden Section as | Gloria. French researchers have | eclipsed. Yours faithfully, have their ancestors. discovered that exposure to Sincerely, and best wishes, Stilian Hristov Yanchev, 5. French mathematician Jean- | mobile phones is changing the Robert Adams, New Zealand, Varnensky, Bulgaria, stilcoliny@ | Marie Souriau and astrophysicist | acetylcholine levels in the body. | http://www.aethmogen.com yahoo.com Jean-Pierre Petit recently showed | These chemicals are directly that the law of Titus-Bode, which | linked to memory. Many people Best NEXUS Conference Yet! establishes a proportional rela- are now forgetting the entire con -| Dear Duncan: I have been to Dear Duncan: As you know, I tionship between the distances of | versation after fe orebl mobile many marvellous NEXUS translate for the French edition of the planets to the Sun, is but an phone. It is a big proolem, ana | Conferences over the years, but NEXUS. I have just finished approximation. Based on recent, | we will have an article on this Souri subject i tissue. Ed] the one in Brisbane just gone accurate measurements, Souriau | Subject In our next issue. . was the best yet. I felt very privi- The Golden Section Explained translating the Letters to the Editor in NEXUS 11/06 into has shown that the progression of leged to be there and to learn French, and I wish to react to | Orbital distances is, in fact, that of | Designing a Better Future about so many astounding things. JoNo's letter about the Golden | 9 the Golden Section! Dear Mr Roads: I have thor- | I found myself—literally—on the Section. I entirely share his | Greetings from Dordogne. oughly enjoyed your magazine | edge of my seat at times, which is enthusiasm for this particular André Dufour (architect, trans- | these last few years, as it has | rare for me. aspect of geometry, but I am | lator for NEXUS France), | brought unprecedented informa- | The three-day-long format afraid he is rather ill-informed | Cherval, France tion to the public on a wide vari- | worked brilliantly and helped me about certain points. ety of "hot" topics. get over the end-of-conference 1. The ratio 1.618... (@) should | Mobile Phones and Memory Loss | _! am writing, however, to solic- | "blues" really well because the be written with a few dots at the | Dear Duncan: Thank you fora] it exposure for Future by | second day was not the last and I end because it is an irrational | great magazine. I'm writing with | Design—an organisation dedicat- | didn't have the feeling it was number, thus infinite in decimal | my concerns over a recent trend ed to bringing to public con- | over almost as soon as it had form. It is the result of the frac- | which I've noticed and wonder if | Sciousness a vision for a compre- | begun. tion (V5+1)/2. As you see, itis a) other NEXUS readers have | hensive plan of social reclamation I liked the way there was a function of five. The geometric | noticed a similar trend. in which human beings, technolo- | "mingling" during the first construction of the Golden It's that people seem to be los- | SY and nature can coexist in a | evening and I felt a lot of ice got Section is the basis of the penta- | ing their memory and are unable | long-term, sustainable state of | broken that way, particularly gram, hence Michelangelo's | to focus concentration on any- | dynamic equilibrium. between the speakers and the drawing. thing longer than for a few sec- Future by Design can be con- | attendees. 2. The properties of this ratio | onds or minutes. The latter could | tacted at: 21 Valley Lane, Venus, L also felt a strong sense of fit- were first developed by the Italian | be due to our media culture | FL 33960, USA, tel (863) 465 | ting in and "belonging" this time. mathematician Fibonacci | nowadays, which is based on the | 9321, fax (863) 465 1928, email | The "NEXUS" part of me is actu- (Leonardo of Pisa) in the 12th | two-minute sound bite. fod @ futurebydesign.org, website ally far bigger than I realised, and century. He showed that the geo-| | My main concern, however, is | http://www. futurebydesign.org. | it was great to be able to chat to metric progression, the multiplier | the loss of memory. I've noticed | Best regards, different people about anything of which is phi (@), possesses a | that, amongst people I know well, | _ Marco Scorcelletti, Torrance, | for a change. Having one's ideas unique property: each number | of a range of ages, the ones who | California, USA tolerated by one's friends is not equals the sum of the two preced- | are suffering memory loss and the same thing as being able to ing ones. unable to pay attention are the | "Over Unity" an Impossibility discuss them fully and openly 3. At least 20 years before | ones who use their mobile phones Dear Duncan: Greetings from with others. Schwaller de Lubicz's enormous | and cordless phones a lot. The Margaret and me to you and all at So NEXUS, thank you, thank work (three volumes), Matila | very worrying thing is, they seem | your office. Iam emailing you | you, thank you for putting it all Ghyka published a very thorough | to be completely unaware of it. to advise that a rather serious | together so beautifully well. study of the Golden Section in his | With typical memory loss, peo- | error appears in your editorial |My kind regards, Le Nombre d'Or (ed. Gallimard, | ple often recall something when | regarding permanent magnet | _ C. W. Lees, Victoria, Australia 1931), which is considered to be | you remind them; they've tem- | motors. [And thank YOU for attending! the basic reference on the matter. | porarily forgotten, in other words. This error pertains to the usage | We will be using the new format 4. Lentirely disagree with But with the type of memory | of the term "over unity". I | at all our conferences from now JoNo's denigration of modern art. | loss I'm talking about, when these | would like to point out that there | on, including at the upcoming Shortly after World War HL, | people are reminded they have | is no such condition, either on | NEXUS Conference in French architect Le Corbusier | absolutely no recall of the event; | Earth or in the Universe. "Over | Amsterdam on 13-14-15 May created two geometric progres- | in other words, it didn't even reg- | unity" cannot possibly exist, as I | 2005. See our website, sions of measures, based on 9, | ister at the time. It's like dealing | have explained to many people | Attp://vww.nexusmagazine.com, which he called the Modulor sys- | with an Alzheimer's patient: the | and have done so in my writings | for more information. Ed.] NEXUS +5 DECEMBER 2004 — JANUARY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com