Notes
[Sunday 2 November 2008 - Saturday 8 November 2008]
[Notebook: DB 64 Gravitation]
Sunday 2 November 2008
[page 147]
Monday 3 November 2008
[page 148]
Rushdie 97: 'A poet's work . . . To name the unnamable, to point out frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him. He is the satirist, Baal.' Rushdie
The only authority comes from clase attachment to reality, to God. A book is worthless insofar as it ignores real experience.
Rushdie page 215: "Gibreel understands that the Imam, fighting by proxy as usual, will sacrifice him as readily as he did the hill of corpses at the palace gate, that he is a suicide soldier of the cleric's cause.'
Heisenberg: Physical Principles '[The uncertainty] principle states that every subsequent observation of the position will alter the momentum by an unknown and indeterminable mount such that after carrying out the experiment our knowledge of the electronic motion is restricted by the uncertainty relation. This may be expressed in concise and general terms by saying that every experiment destroys some od the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments, This formulation makes it clear that the uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated. Then for past times delta p.delta q is smaller than the usual limiting value, but this knowledge of the past is of a purely speculative character, since it can never (because of the unknown change in momentum caused by the [previous] measurement) be used
[page 150]
as an initial condition in any calculation of the future progress of the electron, and this cannot be subjected to experimental verification. It is a matter of personal belief whether such a calculation concerning the past history of the electron can be ascribed any physical reality or not. Heisenberg
PRIVACY = UNKNOWABILITY
From a computational pint of view, we can trace a result back to its initial conditions (in the case of a plane crash, for instance), but we cannot (except in very limited cases) predict the future from present conditions. We can say that the past is determinate, the future indeterminate. The past as we know is equivalent to a halted (stationary, fixed) Turing machine, whereas events in the future depend upon the halting of machines whose halting cannot be predicted.
A computation is a periodic (wavelike) process. Its blue cutoff is the clock frequency and the red cutoff (if any) is the halting frequency of the total process. In between these frequencies are the (stationary) halting frequencies of sub-processes.
In quantum mechanics we do not observe the actual frequencies of processes (except in the correspondence limit) but the frequency of transition between stationary processes which are accompanied by the emission or absorption of a particle.
Tuesday 4 November 2008
The 'matter' of spirit (alphabet, foundation) is information (and so entropy) and so the greener we become, the more information
[page 150]
we pack into matter. The upper limit is set by the uncertainty principle delta action . delta number => h bar
Follow the money; follow the energy; follow the (rate of) action
Fixed point theorems hod as long as a set is mapped onto itself, but once it breaks its bounds by mapping outside itself, thus establishing a new larger set mapping onto itself, fixed points may move. Five . . .
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Politics is within us as well as around us. We are a bundle of independent and sometimes conflicting desires which must be reconciled and harmonized to achieve fitting action, just like the wider society. An important feature of politics is metanoia, the ability to change our actions to suit the environment, to go, when it appears necessary and advantageous, with the flow.
There is no need for mind control; only public behaviour (ie observable physical action) control: no rape, no violence, drive on the correct side of the road, stop at stop signs and so on, while thinking what you will.
Commuting matrices have parallel eigenvectors, in other words the same alphabet, and so they are in some sense the same code, ie energy code, position code, momentum code etc.
Heisenberg page 56: 'The exact knowledge of the direction (except for a factor of absolute magnitude unity) in unitary space is the
[page 151]
maximum information regarding the quantum dynamical variable which can be obtained', ie we can know precisely which letter of the 'eigenalpbabet' we are reading.
Heisenberg page 57: '. . . the values of two dynamical variables are causally related if, and only if, the tensors corresponding to them have parallel principal axes.'.
Thursday 6 November 2008
Rushdie page 315: 'The Angel of Recitation'
. . .
TRADE
1. trade is the exchange of value; all communication is trade and involves the exchange of physically embodied information
2. Trade is fair if both parties are wittingly satisfied with the deal; otherwise it is unfairness
3. Unfairness arises from deception, power, theft, violence and similar violations of the peer relationship.
4. The ultimate purpose of physical theology if fair trade for all, people, other species and the planet. The Theology Company product is donation ware. People wishing assistance to apply our wares may negotiate suitable consultation fees.
Rushdie page 335: Any new idea, Mahound, is asked two questions. The first is when it is weak; WHAT KIND OF IDEA ARE YOU? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals,
[page 152]
accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody minded, ramrod backed type of dumbfool notion which would rather break than sway with the breeze? -- The kind that will almost certainly, ninety nine times out of a hundred, be smashed to bits; but the hundredth time will change the world
Natural theology is both. It has an unassailable physical backbone that differentiates into a transfinity of detail that can accommodate every personality.
The common law recognises that corporate persons can be created by a group of natural persons. Netwok model of god takes this idea to the limit, envisaging layer after layer of more complex personalities whose interaction serves to create the next layer of personal complexity.
PERSON == SOURCE
Rushdie page 338: 'Then I asked: does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He - ie Isaiah - replied. All poets believe that it does, & in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of any thing.
Faith does not move mountains per se, but patiently assembles an uses the resources necessary ti move the mountain by encouraging other to invest in the project, as they would in an oil company, because they hope for some profit. Each peer group has its own ways of measuring profit and loss of value. In any process inefficiency is lost value and new more efficient algorithms are treasure So this Presentation embodies the algorithm which The Theology Company is developing.
[page 153]
Friday 7 November 2008
At the lowest physical layer there is no difference between formalism and the total reality because the world at this layer is not complex enough to sustain any distinction. At this layer, we may guess, quantum mechanics is everything.
FINANCIAL CRISIS caused by breakdown of trust. Trust breaks down when there are too many errors in the system, caused, for instance, by unreliable valuation of items of trade It is up to the layer above to eliminate the errors (from its point of view) inevitably generated in its physical layer.
The Theology Company's ambition is to become Australia's first publicly listed religion. Obviously this places certain constraints on the direction of the Company if it wants to attract investors.
One cannot go public with a sectarian religion, since that would be to exclude certain investors contrary to the spirit of public shareholding.
Second, one must have a market and some proposal of making a return to investors. It may be that religion accounts for 10% of the GNP. Clearly we have to research this, but there is no doubt that many religions are quite wealthy and some say that the quickest way to make money is to open a Church.
[page 154]
Most of the money possessed by religions is hidden in prive and yet religions are public institutions. TTCo is at present a private company and may only invite donations, not investments, from people who would like to see the initiative prosper. At present it is no more than a one man band playing behind a corporate front, but the aim is to direct its operations in such a way that it can eventually become public so that its wealth will be there for all to see to be shared by anyone who wants to join in.
Religion is the technology of peace, the art of mediator. A mediator must establish the conditions for fair trade between the parties in dispute.
Saturday 8 November 2008
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Public vs private religions
Roman Catholic Church, Islam etc are private religions; you have to be a baptized or otherwise certified believer to belong. Public religion is open to everyone, including members of private religions.
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