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From Osher Doctorow

We have seen that, in analogy with the Fibonacci Numbers F_n or Fn:

1) Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2, n > 1

the Probable Causation/Influence Differences y - x from P(A-->B) = 1 +
y - x in their sequence representation:

2) Gn = Gn-1 - Gn-2

are related to a "limiting type" result partly analogous to the
Fibonacci quotient Fn+1/Fn limit phi, where phi is the Golden Mean or
Golden Ratio = (1 + sqrt(5))/2. The partial analog for Gn is:

3) x = [1 +/- sqrt(3) i ]/2

The exactly same procedure that produces phi from Fn, namely dividing
both sides of (1) by Fn-1 and taking the limit as n --> infinity,
yields (3) from (2) except that the limit in a strict sense does not
exist (not surprising since it contains the imaginary i while Gn are
real-valued).

Since (3) arguably represents Unification of the 4 Fundamental
Interactions as explained in the recent post here, it involves "new
mathematics" and "new physics".

There are some interesting consequences of putting various initial
values G1, G2 into (2) and then calculating the resulting sequences of
Gn, although unlike Fn where F1 = 1 = F2, the Gn sequences are quite
different:

4) If G2 - G1 is different from both G1 and G2 and neither is 0 (and
G2 - G1 is not 0), then Gn takes on 6 different values in sequence
which keep repeating, namely G1, G2, G2 - G1, and their negatives.

5) If G2 - G1 equals one of G1 or G2 (usually G1 in that case) and
neither is 0 and they are unequal, then Gn takes on 4 different values
in sequence, namely G1, G2, and their negatives. If one of G1 or G2
is 0 or they are equal, then Gn has fewer than 4 different values.

The 6 in (4) is 3! = 3 times 2 times 1, which again arguably relates
back to quarks (the number of ways of selecting one quark from 3 or
one edge from a triangle). The 4 in (5) appears to relate to the
"degeneration" of the triangle from 3 to 2 sides.

For example, if we select G1 = 2 and G2 = 10, then we get:

6) G1 = 2, G2 = 10, G3 = 8, G4 = -2, G5 = -10, G2 = -8, G7 = 2, etc.
(repeats).

Osher Doctorow