I think your story example is a bit forced. After all, there are few stories about what the princess is doing in the castle while waiting for the brave knight to rescue her.
We like stories where the characters we follow have agency. A story about a brave woman who saves her boyfriend after undergoing hardship - that certainly has the potential to be interesting.
As whole-exome sequencing has now dipped below $1,000 [1], this really should become a diagnostic assay of first resort. That said, further improvements are required as it appears the majority of cancer causing sequence variants are found in non-coding regions of the genome [2], suggesting that greater sequencing coverage is tremendously valuable.
I'm not sure I follow. Multiplying through by two to get tau would simply move the nested square roots from the denominator to the numerator in the relation with the golden ratio (as is explained in the link).
I certainly don't see any step in the outlined derivation that gains or loses the ability to be intuited simply due to a factor of two.
We like stories where the characters we follow have agency. A story about a brave woman who saves her boyfriend after undergoing hardship - that certainly has the potential to be interesting.