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Andrew Salch wrote:
> The length of the year is the period of revolution of the Earth about 
> the Sun. You could use the geometry of the Earth's orbit to come up 
> with some clever reason for "phi day" to fall on a particular day of 
> the year; that seems more satisfying (at least to me) than choosing a 
> day based on the decimal expansion of phi, or some other non-geometric 
> means.
>
> For example, at any moment, there is a unique rectangle that can be 
> inscribed in the plane of the Earth's orbit such that two of the 
> rectangle's sides are given by the major axis and the minor axis of 
> the Earth's elliptical orbit about the Sun, with one corner of the 
> rectangle given by the Sun, and the opposite corner of the rectangle 
> given by the Earth. There are eight moments in each year at which that 
> rectangle is of the correct proportions to form a golden rectangle. 
> Perhaps someone wants to calculate on what dates those eight moments 
> of the year fall. Or you could use the geometry of the solar system 
> (on which our whole calendar is based) in other clever ways to pick 
> out certain days of the year in which some proportion of distances 
> between objects in the solar system is equal to phi.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, David Powers wrote:
>
>> Interesting... so in the Northern Hemisphere it falls on Halloween,
>> which might add a new twist to the interpretation of Phi...
>>
>> Having a different date for Northern and Southern hemisphere is
>> problematic for a global event though. The proposed date for the
>> Northern Hemisphere, May 6th though, would be a practical choice if we
>> want to start the project now, because it is both in the near future
>> but distant enough that people have a reasonable amount of time to
>> create something.
>>
>> ~David
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Kim Cascone <kim at anechoicmedia.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> here's another take on the idea of Phi Day:
>>>
>>> http://www.goldenratio.org/phi_day.html
>>>
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