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Notes

[Notebook NAKEDICAME, DB 53]

[Sunday 28 January 2001 - Saturday 3 February 2001]

[page 142]

Sunday 28 January 2001

Monday 29 January 2001

MODEL06 Topological duality

ORDERED <-> PREDICTABLE
CHAOTIC <-> UNPREDICTABLE

MODEL07 Unity, plurality and conflict.

Cardinal gives us broad classification. ORDINAL - TOPOLOGICAL gives us the details.

ATOMIC ACTION with and WITHOUT structure.

PHYSICS01ACTION (again)
THEOL01WAR
People come into conflict when

a) they do not sort things out among themselves by compromise, inevitably necessary, COMPROMISE == COMMUNICATION == SYMMETRY

All communication is genetic.

Space time ordering (and so causality)

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is mixed (lost) from our naive point of view but the laws of special relativity allow us to transform distant frames back to causally intelligible systems.

CONFLICT ELASTIC (life preserving) PLASTIC (life and death) (shaped only by conserved probability).

The abstract gives us wider vision and because it is elastic, repeated vision, whereas the plastic gives us realistic detail (I must kill to live) [but only once] This is the creative tradeoff.

Many overtly religious people have outstandingly tiny minds. To cite a blatant and violent example (SMH . . . [Sydney Morning Herald] Ceram.

You tell me what you think and I will tell you what I think. [then we will kill one another]

Once we get the religion perfected, then we go into business as religious optimization and conflict resolution consultants. We have

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a method, a scientific method, of conflict resolution (as do, we presume, heaps of other people in the same business.) Get them to agree on some principles and then use them to design a conclusion - NK = many conflicting constraints. Kauffman

Through the symmetry of the natural line, we can view the gigantic structure of transfinite symbols as a system of nested boxes. This powerful abstraction is the foundation of set theory and implicit in Cantor's definition 'the gathering together into a whole'. Cantor In simple terms, the whole induces the parts.

This process is visible before our eyes in processes using FOCH spaces.

A TECHNOLOGY = PROCESS = PROOF, ie establishing the existence of a physical structure grounded in the existence of existing physical structures.

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We distinguish the interior from the exterior of an organism by the degree to which activities are directed to the welfare of the organism. In the extreme interior = 100% pro, exterior = 0% [50%] pro.

Let us code up the 'NK model with duality" in Perl.

COMMUNICATION = PROOF = TRANSFORMATION = SYMMETRY = CURVATURE(?)

Trial and error must take over when sufficiently precise, accurate and reproducible measurement is not possible.

DIGITIZATION = STABILITY

VALUE = BONUM

The essential practical different between space and time is that we can make inverse motions in space (there and back) but not in time (not back to the past and then forward to the future).

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A sentence is a particle having the desired meaning when taken as a whole.

We can only understand continuity and change by the notion of duality (eg Aristotle matter and form). Monists are doomed to deny change. In the modern world we see change as creation and annihilation, but we imagine that what is annihilated and what is created have something in common (as A's matter) which carries through the change unscathed.

CHAIN PRINCIPLE

In a dynamic view time has zeroth dimension (ie it is not a degree of freedom) The first degree of freedom in the REAL LINE whose structure is the mathematical centrepiece of this yarn. Our parables come from nature.

TIME HAS ZERO DIMENSION

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Is this the vision of the century. Some might say time is not real (Hawking) Hawking

The idea began to appear in Proof and Time. TIME == DEPENDENCY, CAUSALITY (Causal structure of Universe involves SPACETIME)

Sport pointless but it exists because it is there, ie a source of energy and a source of low entropy.

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Cantor, Georg, Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Philip E B Jourdain), Dover 1955 Jacket: 'One of the greatest mathematical classics of all time, this work established a new field of mathematics which was to be of incalculable importance in topology, number theory, analysis, theory of functions, etc, as well as the entire field of modern logic.'
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Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Doubleday Bell 1998
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Hofstadter, Douglas R, Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Basic/Harvester 1979 An illustrated essay on the philosophy of mathematics. Formal systems, recursion, self reference and meaning explored with a dazzling array of examples in music, dialogue, text and graphics.
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Kauffman, Stuart, At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Complexity, Oxford University Press 1995 Preface: 'As I will argue in this book, natural selection is important, but it has not laboured alone to craft the fine architectures of the biosphere . . . The order of the biological world, I have come to believe . . . arises naturally and spontaneously because of the principles of self organisation - laws of complexity that we are just beginning to uncover and understand.'
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Shulman, Seth, Undermining Science: Suprression and Distortion in the Bush Administration, University of California Press 2007 Amazon Book Description 'This vitally important expos� shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first book to focus exclusively on how this explosive issue has played out during the Presidency of George W. Bush and the first to comprehensively document his administration's abuses of science. In 2001, a group of eminent American scientists affiliated with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) contacted Seth Shulman, an experienced investigative journalist, to look into charges of serious mishandling of scientific information in the current administration. Shulman's investigation resulted in the groundbreaking report "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policy Making," which served as the basis for a highly publicized UCS scientists' statement accusing the Bush administration of a misuse of science that was signed by dozens of Nobel laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, and members of the National Academy of Sciences. To date, more than 8,000 scientists across the country have signed the statement based upon Shulman's reporting. This book, drawing upon scores of interviews and including never-released information, goes beyond the UCS report to document the Bush administration's suppression and distortion of science, bringing this issue to a wider audience.'
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Weinberger, Sharon, Imaginary Weapons: A Journey through the Pentagon;s Scientific Underworld, Nation Books 2005 Amazon Editorial Review:Publishers Weekly 'The Pentagon's fascination with fringe science is old news, writes veteran defense reporter Weinberger in this incisive study, but the Bush administration has pushed it to new levels of wackiness. After reviewing our government's pursuit of antimatter weapons, psychics and telepathy, she focuses on a "nuclear hand grenade" that may cost billions and seems certain to fail. Before the War on Terror and the avalanche of government money for advanced new weapons, few paid attention to physicists who said they could harness the energy of unstable atomic nuclei, or "isomers," through a wildly expensive process involving atomic reactors. But in recent years, a group of fringe scientists aided by defense industry insiders has convinced the Pentagon that America's post-9/11 survival depends on developing an isomer bomb. While proponents compare it to the Manhattan Project, opponents point out that independent researchers have not been able to duplicate the results attained by isomer enthusiasts, and that many assumptions behind the bomb contradict the laws of physics. Though Congress canceled isomer bomb development in 2004, the Department of Energy found $5 million to continue the research.' Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Papers

Giles, Jim, "PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access", Nature, 445, 7126, 25 January 2007, page 347. '... Eric Dezenhall has made a name for himself helping companies and celebrities protect their reputations . . . Now Nature has learned a group of big scientific publishers has hired the pit bull to take on the free information movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available. . . . The consultant advised them to focus on simple messages such as "Public access equals government censorship" . . . .'. back

Horgan, John, "Dark days at the White House: Has the George W. Bush administration manipulaed sceince for political ends? Review of Seth Shulman, Undermining Science: Supression and Distortion in the Bush Administration, University of California Press, , 2007.", Nature, 445, 7126, 25 January 2007, page . back

Jeltes, T, et al, "Comparison the the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect for bosons and fermions", Nature, 445, 7126, 25 January 2007, page 402 - 405. 'Fifty years ago, Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) discovered photon bunching in light emitted by a chaotic source, highlighting the importance of two-photon correlations and stimulating the development of modern quantum optics. The quantum interpretation of bunching relies on the constructive interference between amplitudes involving two indistinguishable photons, and its additive character is intimately linked to the Bose nature of photons. Advances in atom cooling and detection have led to the observation and full characterization of the atomic analogue of the HBT effect with bosonic atoms. By contrast, fermions should reveal an antibunching effect (a tendency to avoid each other). Antibunching of fermions is associated with destructive two-particle interference, and is related to the Pauli principle forbidding more than one identical fermion to occupy the same quantum state. Here we report an experimental comparison of the fermionic and bosonic HBT effects in the same apparatus, using two different isotopes of helium: 3He (a fermion) and 4He (a boson). Ordinary attractive or repulsive interactions between atoms are negligible; therefore, the contrasting bunching and antibunching behaviour that we observe can be fully attributed to the different quantum statistics of each atomic species. Our results show how atom�atom correlation measurements can be used to reveal details in the spatial densityor momentum correlations in an atomic ensemble. They also enable the direct observation of phase effects linked to the quantum statistics of a many-body system, which may facilitate the study of more exotic situations.'. back