Notes
[Sunday 23 March 2008 - Saturday 29 March 2008]
[Notebook: DB 63 aTheology]
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Sunday 23 March 2008
Feynman Gravitation page 163: 'In general [cosmology] deals with all that can be known about what happens.' page 163 Feynman
The network model does not (at least initially) tell us anything new but it does (for me) make everything more comprehensible and provides a logical framework for making computations about events (modelling) Rather as Copernicus did for the solar system, producing a simple are more comprehensible explanation of planetary motion. Newton took the final step by finding a stationary point in the whole motion expressed in the law of Universal gravitation. The law we are looking for might be the law of requisite variety, which partitions the relationships between systems into controllable and uncontrollable.
To build is to establish fixed points by deriving them from other fixed points, in practical terms local unweathered rock.
DIVINE = OF UNBOUNDED COMPLEXITY
When all humans are equal they are also fully differentiated and equiprobable so that the entropy of the system is at a maximum, ie it has reached a complexity bound for that layer. Of course every element of this complexity may be a letter in the alphabet of the next layer of complexity.
Falling in love is the potential which creates the complex interlocking structure of life together, further complexified by interactions of families and children. The first bit of structure is the date, and if the potential is sufficiently deep, things will go on from there.
If gravitation is source free, we do not have any communication, since communication implies two sources? So gravitation lies in the first three axioms of quantum mechanics, and all the complexities only enter when we start splitting the Universe into distinct particles.
Everything lives in its own proper time, by which we mean that a message is a 3-space moving through time, that is a timeless entity moving through time, in other words an algorithm or Turing machine.
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GRAVITATION <==> CLASSICAL GOD (HEBREW)
THE REST (currently described by field theory) <==> TRINITY
Feynman page 216: 'Just as in the quantum mechanical case, we shall find that the emitter of the radiation is also the stress.'
The basic motivation of communication is internal consistency which can be cured by communication. So we might have two classes of internal inconsistency (error): those that can be corrected locally; and those that require the help of an oracle (the environment) which is obtained by communication, question and answer.
Current = communication channel. The channel is the message, different channel, different message. This is the physical level of abstraction. Later we see the same channel carrying different messages as with photons and the spectrum of momenta.
Still floating free, not connected. I was disconnected when I left the Order of Preachers and have remained a (theologically) free particle since then. Trying quite hard to connect god to physics via communication, or more specifically through the notion that the Universe, like god, fills not just physical but noetic space, whose phase space is the symmetric Universe. At the physical level all transitions in this Universe are wrought by 'currents' of communication. I am seeking to solve enough of my internal inconsistency to begin communicating theologically again.
Trying to replace lack of intelligence by surfeit of
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industry.
Cosmological principle: each of us (and every particle) is at the centre of its own Universe, in its proper self, partly expressed as an inertial frame.
Feynman page xxxii: 'What I cannot create I cannot understand'.
Massless spin-2 field may be interpreted as a metric.
'Hence it appears that Feynman's intuition about the connection between geometry and gauge invariance is correct.
Monday 24 March 2008
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Thursday 27 March 2008
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The evolution of the Universe creates new localities, ie systems disconnected (to some extent) from their environment, ie new degrees of freedom.
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Art: emotional / practical integrity
Dreaming of gravitation, fixed points, dynamics
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and mystery
Messages (witnesses) are the fixed points upon which we build our knowledge.
