Notes
[Sunday 6 April 2008 - Saturday 12 April 2008]
[Notebook: DB 63 aTheology]
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Sunday 6 April 2008
Home again
Maybe enroll JJJ in the papal caper?
World Youth Day, Sydney 2008 July 15-20
Trinity: every particle (personality) in the Universe (= god) shares the same divine nature.
The world is foolproof because given any problem, there is guaranteed to be a space of sufficient cardinality to solve it. This cardinal may be greater or less than the cardinal of the layer in which the problem occurs. If less, we are faced by the breakdown of the existing system, ie its death. If greater, we see the development of a unified system which harmonizes both sides of the problem by processing them with different algorithms, ie broken symmetry. Datta et al
So the electron and the [muon] are a broken symmetry.
Sexual satisfaction is a much desired endpoint which is nevertheless fraught with difficulties which ultimately act as constraints on the genetic selection of offspring.
The Christian tradition has glorified god (as rulers then customarily glorified themselves to maintain power) to the point where we do not see that relatively simple operations like cooking are part of the divine process that envelops us. [so all is Eucharist Gk eucharistos = pleasant, grateful, thankful]
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Though I joined the Order of Preachers I have always been reluctant to preach because I have always had my doubts about the message I was employed to propagate. One might strive for perfection but the reality is that we are constrained to getting better, since the complex dynamic situation we occupy does not admit of any unique best. So the ground of any future preaching is that the course advocated is better than any of the known alternatives, implemented or not.
Monday 7 April 2008
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Tuesday 8 April 2008
The Theology Company headline - : to help create a global university of good living
The state of a newborn is solipsist: I am the only person I know and gradually working from there to the Copernican cosmological principle. This principle is customarily applied to spacetime; here we wish to apply it across the spectrum of complexity, maintaining that the intelligence of n atom, a human, a church or a nation is essentially the same, symmetry with respect to space, time and complexity. The same protocols apply at all points in space, time and complexity.
Coming out to tout an unfinished project to raise the funds to complete it.
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The aim of the GUGL [Global University of Good Living] ie gurgle is to break the hierarchical system where you have a hierarchy of priests controlling a population of parishioners with no channel of effective reply by the controlled population. Like it or leave.
Popular media are (by definition) the principal channels of culture and religion.
The six classical symmetries: ens, res, aliquid, unum, verum, bonum, six transcendentals, six linguistic invariants (and we could find that every word connotes some linkage to what is. I am who [I ] am. Exodus 3:14 Exodus
The whole of quantum field theory is based on the idea of superposition: all algorithms are always present t every point in space-time but they are only occasionally executed.
COMPUTER (TURING MACHINE etc) = POTENTIAL (text, fixed point)
In human space we push on one another by exchanging texts: 'Eva, keep away from that snake', etc.
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Wednesday 9 April 2008
Much effort has been spent trying to quantize gravity, but maybe it is misdirected. The Universe (in the network
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picture) is quantized to prevent error, and so we might expect that where error is not possible, quantization is not necessary. Gravitation is the root force in the Universe. Everything observable is found to have energy, and gravitation couples to energy, ie it couples to everything and so, we might say, there is no possibility of gravitational error because there is no possibility of gravitation mis-coupling, as we might see, for instance, if a photon coupled to an electrically neutral particle.
N On the quantization of gravitation.
Gravitation responds to energy alone, but we recognize two forms of energy, potential (negative, structural) and kinetic (positive, variational) which (we surmise) add up to zero, so that we can see both attraction and repulsion in gravitation, the attraction keeping us on earth, the repulsion causing the expansion of the Universe [our minds, and all other increases in complexity]. These two forces correspond to fermions and bosons.
Brian Greene Elegant Universe Greene
Gravitation describes what happens in a closed quantum system like the univese.
Greene page 126: '. . . the gravitational force and the strong force . . . are each required in order that the Universe embody particular symmetries.'
These symmetries in turn are manifestations of the common descent of the present day Universe from the totally symmetrical (completely degenerate) initial singularity.
A closed system in one surrounded by an event horizon, as
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we assume a black hole to be. This is an isolated uantum system whose interior entropy expressed on its surface has been clculated by Hawking. Black hole thermodynamics - Wikipedia
Thursday 10 April 2008
We might say that in its essence gravittion dates from an epoch when the Universe was too simple to allow for observation, so tht the observational postulates of quantum mechanics were inoperative. This is true of any isolated system insofar as it is isolated, even though there may be unobserved interactions within the isolated system, eg Everett III. Everett III
On this view, gravitation might apply to the initial singularity before it differentiatrs into space and time, that is into kinetic and potential energy, or fermions and bosons, when its energy was precisely zero. This situation is akin to the classical unobservable god about which we can say nothing.
Einstein's geometric (continuous, differentiable) expression of relativity is based on a) the principle of equivalence: gravitation and acceleration are indistinguishable, so that one can extinguish the other so thjat a person in free fall does not feel his own weight; and b) general covariance, which holds that all Gaussian coordinate systems are equally valid for the description of universal process.
Nobdoy (not even the Universe) can feel force or gravitation until there are two forces in the Universe, one to act as
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a reference point for feeling the other, as the electromagnetic constitution of my body enables me to feel the chair holding me in position against gravitation.
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