THE GOLDEN RATIO

Throughout history, the Golden Ratio has been deemed a magical mathematical formula that is the basis of the greatest engineering feets (i.e. the pyramids) to objective marks of human beauty.

The Golden Ratio is 1.618.

The human eye is drawn to this proportion.

It somehow fits the world into our long term mental picture of our environment.

Throughout history, some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece,  through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonard of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler,  to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose,   have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics.

In the numerology of LOST, 1.618 can be interpreted as follows:

1. The number 16 and 18. In the candidates representation, that would mean Sayid and
Kueffner is a surname that appeared to be scratched off on the lighthouse dial.

2. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 can be added, subtracted or used to get many other number combinations to include 16 and 18 (16 + 2).

Kueffner is a name that means "barrel maker" in German.

In historic Germany, why were barrel makers so important? Barrels were needed to ferment and store beer or "spirits."

That may be another clue that the LOST island and events was part of a spiritual world, as referenced through Sayid's "multiple" deaths from wounds that could not be healed in the Temple pool, to the shocking reincarnation, to his final demise by bomb detonation on the submarine.

Spirits may inhabit us in multiple lives.

Kueffner \
ku(e)-ff-ner\ as a boy's name is a variant of Kiefer (German), and the meaning of Kueffner is "barrel maker".
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