Newton & his Laws
If you have a lot of this, then I couldn't tackle you well.
Inertia/mass
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, …
are all examples of these kinds of numbers.
What are Fibonacci numbers?
This guy first said & proved that orbits are not what they seem...not circular at least.
Johannes Kepler
The next number in the sequence:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, …
What is 89?
Fibonacci SequenceHis ideas led to the first public transit system in Paris.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
This equation says that you can either have a big mass or acceleration, but not both.
F=ma
6 is this kind of number.
What is perfect?
This is a measurement of how non-circular an ellipse is.
Eccentricity
The next number in the sequence:
1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, …
What is 127?
21-1=1
22-1=3
...
27-1=127
This guy -- along with Newton -- claimed to have invented calculus, and because of his high IQ he just may have just been the one to do most of the work.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Don't worry if no one loves you, for at least the Earth will pull you as much you pull it, according to this law.
Third Law
A special name for the number 1.618...
What is the golden ratio?
What is phi?
I don't want to be around this kind of aging star, for fear of it exploding into a supernova.
Supergiant
The next number in the sequence:
50, 49, 51, 48, 52, 47, ...
What is 53?
50, 51, 52, 53, ... is its own sequence
49, 48, 47, … is its own sequence
When you expand this expression, you get:
x3+3x2y+3xy2+y3
What is (x+y)3?
I feel this, whether you're here, there, or millions of miles away.
Gravitational attraction to you/gravity
One of its rows is
1, 5, 10, 10, 5, 1
What is Pascal's Triangle?
Our sun is this kind of star.
Main sequence or yellow dwarf
The next number in the sequence:
6, 8, 14, 22, 36, ...
What is 58?
6+8=14
8+14=22
14+22=36
22+36=58
Heavy elements were made available for planet (and lifeform) formation due to this violent event that dispersed heavier elements all across space.
Supernova
According to Newton, if you quadruple the distance between two masses, you multiple the force of gravity between them by this factor.
1/16 or .0625
The numbers
4, 5, 9, 14, 23, 37, …
follow this kind of pattern.
What is recursive?
4+5=9
5+9=14
9+14=23
...
This is what I get when I take an extreme mass of hydrogen and compress it under extreme pressure.
A star
The next number in the sequence:
2, 12, 1112, 3112, 132112, ...What is 1113122112?
one 2 = 12one 1, one 2 = 1112
...
one 1, one 3, one 2, two 1s, one 2 = 1113122112
The value of
5C0 + 5C1 + 5C2 + 5C3 + 5C4 + 5C5
What is 32?
The sum of the rows in the nth row of Pascal's triangle = 2n
25=32