Cochlea
What if everything we see follows a mathematical equation? The cochlea is just such a shape. We have built a sound-insulated room in the form of a cochlea containing several experiments.
The shell of a snail, the cochlea, is in the shape of a logarithmic spiral, which means that it grows regularly with a constantly changing radius. The same spiral shape can be found in many places in nature. You can see a few examples of this in the shell’s opening on the wall to your left.
Several people have argued that the golden ratio appears in many natural forms. A few examples include:
- That your foot is the same length as your forearm.
- That your height matches the distance between your fingertips when you stretch your arms out.
- That the length of your nose is the same as that of your index finger measured from the second joint.
- That your belly button is placed so that the distance from your chin to your navel is the same as from your navel to your knee.