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[Sunday 11 January 2009 - Saturday 17 January 2009]

[Notebook: DB 65 Symmetric U]

Sunday 11 January 2009

[page 59]

Monday 12 January 2009

Feynman & Hibbs page 231: 'There are various effects which lead to diverging integrals if the integrals are carried toward zero wavelength. The corresponding difficulties do not really arise in a vibrating crystal because if we wish to carry the analysis into the very short wavelength region, where the wavelengths are comparable to the atomic spacing, we must drop the approximation of continuity.' Feynman & Hibbs

The error resistant computed network model says drop the assumption of continuity. There is nothing to be known

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(ie communicated from) a continuum as such. (Heisenberg) [ie we have only to explain the observations, nothing else, and continua are not observable, only discrete events.]

F&H page 231: 'When the various modes of a field are excited, we say there are 'things' which have different names for different cases. For sound of crystal vibrations we call them phonons, for the electromagnetic field photon, for meson field theory mesons, etc.'

The network model says a source sees something as 'present' when it receives a message from it, and this in turn points to the completion of a communication.

'Even electrons can be represented by being excitations of a field . . . It is called a Fermi field the particles obey the exclusion principle and the lagrangian is quantized not by representing it as a set of harmonic oscillators, but in a different way.'

In statistical mechanics we propose a distribution of initial states which, after suitable (deterministic) processing, give us a distribution of final states. F&H page 268

Tuesday 13 January 2009

Wednesday 14 January 2009

Thursday 15 January 2009

Friday 16 January 2009

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Reed and Stillman Nuclear Express Reed & Stillman

Our hypothesis is that the symmetric Universe is the state space of the Universe. The transfinite network We envisage a network as a system of independent memories able to alter one another by communication. We see a communication as a transformation of a body of data from the representation used by the transmitter to the representation used by the receiver.

We might all agree that survival means that we do things. This is clear enough; the trouble starts when we ask the question do what? Of all possible actions we conjecture that for an organism some increase its probability of survival and reproduction, some decrease it and some are neutral.

We understand a state to be both the output and the input of a transformation, that is a computation. A one state system faces no change and stays as it is, like the ancient notion of an eternal god.

The difficulty of encapsulation and publication is compounded by the feeling that the story gets exponentially better (or I become exponentially more deluded) week by week. I am trying to see myself in the human peer network, receiving and transmitting data from my whole sensible environment (and with the help of instruments) beyond.

At the human scale questions of what to do are solved [by] politics. The methods of politics range from assassination (sometimes on a considerable scale: Henry VIII, Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc)

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to creative democratic settlement with sufficient variety to deal with all the problems that might arise like hunger or disease.

Saturday 17 January 2009

God is pure act. The ancients divided the world into potency and act, but in fact (as viewed through quantum mechanics) it is everywhere active, every point being an active source [this is the definition of 'point']. It requires action both to transmit and to receive a message.

Carbon trading and error free communication. Emissions trading - Wikipedia

Human morality can become irrelevant to nation states without their immediate collapse, since they are a higher layer that is relatively unaffected by human causalities and so like Lenin and his successors, Hitler. and Mao and his successors, a nation can set a ruling class to murder a threatening class and so consolidate power.

Reed and Stillman Nuclear Express

Weapons development is both a result and a promoter of intellectual inquiry. The answer to conflict is physical sharing and the unlimited development of psychological (spiritual) lebensraum.

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Feynman, Richard P , and Albert P Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, McGraw Hill 1965 Preface: 'The fundamental physical and mathematical concepts which underlie the path integral approach were first developed by R P Feynman in the course of his graduate studies at Princeton, ... . These early inquiries were involved with the problem of the infinte self-energy of the electron. In working on that problem, a "least action" principle was discovered [which] could deal succesfully with the infinity arising in the application of classical electrodynamics.' As described in this book. Feynam, inspired by Dirac, went on the develop this insight into a fruitful source of solutions to many quantum mechanical problems.
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Khinchin, A I, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (translated by P A Silvermann and M D Friedman), Dover 1957 Jacket: 'The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein and Khinchin on a rigorous mathematical basis. For the first time, mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, cyberneticists and communications engineers are offered a lucid, comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field.'
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Reed, Thomas C, and Danny B Stillman, The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation, Zenith Press 2009 Jacket: 'The sense of relief the world felt at the end of the Cold War has been replaced with a different kind of Armageddon nightmare. Instead of an East-West power struggle with the rest of the world on the sidelines, the collective dread this time is over terrorist organizations getting their hands on a nuclear weapon, then using it to effect chaos and collapse on civil society. Written by two of the world's foremost nuclear weapons experts, The Nuclear Express addresses how the world got to where it is today. If we are to make the right choices now, we need to understand the history of nuclear weapons and the politics that surround them.' Thomas C. Reed is a former nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, political manager for Ronald Reagan's gubernatorial contests, Secretary of the Air Force under presidents Ford and Carter, Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Policy, and a successful businessman. Danny B. Stillman is a Los Alamos physicist with decades of experience in nuclear design, diagnostics, and testing. For thirteen years Stillman directed the Los Alamos Technical Intelligence Division.
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