Notes

[Notebook NAKEDICAME, DB 53]

[Sunday 7 January 2001 - Saturday 13 January 2001]

[page 120]

Sunday 7 january 2001

Is spacetime complete? Hawking and Ellis, chapter 8. Hawking & Ellis Is god complete? All ancients would say yes, god is eternally all that is possible. Moderns might have trouble with this

[page 124]

from the point of view of Gödel's theorem. Incompleteness may be the basis of time, the incompleteness of the Universe driving it to evolve. But if we integrate over all time, can we encompass the whole divine 'event' with spacetime. Interesting question that carries us from cosmology to the structure of noetic space, our principal interest.

Does theory of communication impose the cosmology that we see?

Monday 8 January 2001

Tuesday 9 January 2001

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Still trying to see how General Relativity is the framework of god. The only constraint on our model of god is consistency. Having seeded the garden with the natural numbers ( = set theory+?) we have grown Cantor space. Now we have to look at our new plants

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and see if we can spot GR in them. But this might be a bit far down the track. Perhaps we should not start from Einstein, but from Emmy Noether, symmetry, abstract algebra etc.

Tree/root -> permutation.

Physics studies god's body.

Conservation law = first integral (Noether, Byers 3) Byers

The general relativity thing is being a bit of a snag. Why is god's body shaped as it is? Why is my body shaped as it is?

In shaping, first we consider the plasticity available (the space) and then we consider the design. So we want to go from Cantor Space to physics. In other words, what CONSTRAINTS (SYMMETRIES) are acting on the transfinite network to give us the Universe we know?

We POSTULATE that all such constraints

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are consequences of consistency. How do we apply this notion to get general relativity?

We approach by the most general route, symmetry. What we are saying is that a transfinite consistent system will look like our Universe.

Why are there parts in the Whole?

Why are there symmetries in the dynamism? (eg all vehicles use a limited size range of bolts and nuts)

Model Symmetry
Model Knowledge

Solving mindspace and physical space problems with bullets is aesthetically repulsive.

The structure of god is driven by beauty and necessity tempered by the transfinite space of possibility.

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Is the Cantor God closed? No. But we can nevertheless enclose it in a set as a definite and separate meaning: God = {whatever god means} = recursive definition = general relativity.

INTELLECT/WILL duality

Wednesday 10 January 2001

Thursday 11 January 2001

Love (will) desire = downhill = lower potential

POTENTIAL is opposed by ENTROPY

Gibb's function G = H -TS.

Sometimes I think that I am too stupid to go on and that I should leave this job to someone more intelligent, but at least I seem to be motivated. The will is there and the intelligence comes drop by drop.

Friday 12 January 2001

Saturday 13 January 2001

 

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Further reading

Books

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Alexander, Stephanie, The Cook's Companion: The complete book of ingredients and recipes for the Australian kitchen, Lantern/Penguin 2004 'The Cook's Companion has established itself as the kitchen 'bible' in over 300 000 homes since it was first published in 1996. Stephanie Alexander has added over 300 new recipes as well as 12 new chapters to this thoroughly revised and updated edition. Stephanie believes that good food is essential to living well; her book is for everyone, every day. She has invaluable information about ingredients, cooking techniques and kitchen equipment, along with inspiration, advice and encouragement and close to 1000 failsafe recipes.   Amazon   back

Hawking, Steven W, and G F R Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time , Cambridge UP 1975 Preface: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity ... leads to two remarkable predictions about the Universe: first that the final fate of massive stars is to collapse behind an event horizon to form a 'black hole' which will contain a singularity; and secondly that there is a singularity in our past which constitutes, in some sense, a beginning to our Universe. Our discussion is principally aimed at developing these two results.'  Amazon   back

MacDonald, Douglas A (editor), and Richard H. Price (Editor), Kip S. Thorne (editor), Black Holes: The Membrane Paradigm, Yale University Press 1986 Amazon Book Description 'A pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes. The membrane paradigm represents the four-dimemnsional spacetime of the black hole's "event horizon" as a two-dimensional membrane in three-dimensional space, allowing the reader to understand and compute the behavior of black holes in complex astrophysical environments.'  Amazon   back

Rowling, J K, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Scholastic Paperbacks Amazon Editorial Review: 'The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, "Is it worth the hype?" The answer, luckily, is simple: yep. A magnificent spectacle more than worth the price of admission, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will blow you away. However, given that so much has gone into protecting the secrets of the book (including armored trucks and injunctions), don't expect any spoilers in this review. It's much more fun not knowing what's coming--and in the case of Rowling's delicious sixth book, you don't want to know. Just sit tight, despite the earth-shattering revelations that will have your head in your hands as you hope the words will rearrange themselves into a different story. But take one warning to heart: do not open Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince until you have first found a secluded spot, safe from curious eyes, where you can tuck in for a good long read. Because once you start, you won't stop until you reach the very last page. A darker book than any in the series thus far with a level of sophistication belying its genre, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moves the series into murkier waters and marks the arrival of Rowling onto the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her cleverness and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully nuanced depiction of a community at war. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, no one and nothing is safe, including preconceived notions of good and evil and of right and wrong. With each book in her increasingly remarkable series, fans have nervously watched J.K. Rowling raise the stakes; gone are the simple delights of butterbeer and enchanted candy, and days when the worst ailment could be cured by a bite of chocolate. A series that began as a colorful lark full of magic and discovery has become a dark and deadly war zone. But this should not come as a shock to loyal readers. Rowling readied fans with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by killing off popular characters and engaging the young students in battle. Still, there is an unexpected bleakness from the start of Book 6 that casts a mean shadow over Quidditch games, silly flirtations, and mountains of homework. Ready or not, the tremendous ending of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will leave stunned fans wondering what great and terrible events await in Book 7 if this sinister darkness is meant to light the way.' --Daphne Durham  Amazon   back

Links

Nina Byers E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between Symmetries and Conservation Laws Abstract: Emmy Noether proved two deep theorems, and their converses, on the connection between symmetries and conservation laws. ... The present paper in an historical account of the circumstances in which she discovered and proved these theorems which physicists refer to collectively as Noether's Theorem. The work was done soon after Hilbert's discovery of the variational principle which gives the field equations of general relativity. The failure of local energy conservation was a problem that concerned people at that time, among them David Hilbert, Felix Klein and Albert Einstein. Noether's theorems solved this problem. With her characteristically deep insight and through analysis, in solving the problem she discovered very general theorems that have profoundly influenced modern physics. back

Nina Byers E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between Symmetries and Conservation Laws Abstract: Emmy Noether proved two deep theorems, and their converses, on the connection between symmetries and conservation laws. ... The present paper in an historical account of the circumstances in which she discovered and proved these theorems which physicists refer to collectively as Noether's Theorem. The work was done soon after Hilbert's discovery of the variational principle which gives the field equations of general relativity. The failure of local energy conservation was a problem that concerned people at that time, among them David Hilbert, Felix Klein and Albert Einstein. Noether's theorems solved this problem. With her characteristically deep insight and through analysis, in solving the problem she discovered very general theorems that have profoundly influenced modern physics. back