Originally Posted By: Orac
The good old fibonacci sequence turns up a lot in nature if the plant or animal continued to grow it would indeed go on to infinity it is truncated by some artifical limit or size.


This line of reasoning bears no relation to the reality we observe. The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical concept, and like all mathematical “infinities” is really only “boundless”.

Manifestly, a plant or animal cannot grow to infinity. As someone who, rightly, places great emphasis on observation, I am surprised that you resort to this.

IMO, it would be more accurate to say that the growth of these organisms is truncated by some natural limit, rather than by some artificial limit.

There never was nothing.