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1.2% chance is not significant enough in physics. You can find a lot of such coincidences if you go looking for them. Like people claiming that Pi was relevant in the construction of the pyramids.
I saw a physicist "prove" that Pi was used to construct a random bicycle frame. You just have to juggle the numbers around a bit.
Yes, if something exactly matches 2π⁵/15 there might be significance to it. But something being similar to some fraction or factor of Pi or so says absolutely nothing.
I think xkcd has a chart of crazy coincidences like this. I can't be bothered to look it up.
There are so many numerical expressions and many physical constants. The number of possible combinations is huge. It's fun but not surprising to see some expressions approximately match a physical constant due to chance alone.
1.2% chance is not significant enough in physics. You can find a lot of such coincidences if you go looking for them. Like people claiming that Pi was relevant in the construction of the pyramids.
I saw a physicist "prove" that Pi was used to construct a random bicycle frame. You just have to juggle the numbers around a bit.
Yes, if something exactly matches 2π⁵/15 there might be significance to it. But something being similar to some fraction or factor of Pi or so says absolutely nothing.
I think xkcd has a chart of crazy coincidences like this. I can't be bothered to look it up.
That Pi is a very special number which is related to much other things and numbers as only cirkles is known and also proved. Because of this are legit investigations of this kind, even if the result is not more than a coincidence.
eg.
e^iπ^ = -1
𝜑 = 2cos(𝜋/5)
etc.
I've a nagging suspicion that there are a lot of numbers that can be expressed as a π polynomial (or whatever).
Yes, I also suspect that Pi is more than a mthematical unit to calculate circles and probably direct one of the nature constances which appears almost everywhere in physics, even in quantum physic. They are investigating it, also with other math expressions, because it can lead to new physical laws which are unknown until now. The problem is to prove this relation, because it's not so easy to prove if there is a relation or only by chance,, the reason they are calculating the probability that it fits with big numbers in physical constances.
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