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Notes

[Sunday 4 October 2009 - Saturday 10 October 2009]

[Notebook: DB 67: jciii]

[page 198]

Sunday 4 October 2009

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To New book DB 68 Salalah

Monday 5 October 2009

Tuesday 6 October 2009

[Notebook DB 68 Salalah]

[page 1]

David Malouf: An Imaginary Life Malouf The Gods are our own invention, an hypothesis to give meaning and order to our experiences of life.

Physics is the process of generating and decoding physical data. The photons they observe at CERN are generically the same as the photons observed by the writers and readers of the world's sacred texts. All that differs are the algorithms and networks of algorithms used to decode the observed pttersn (bins) of photons). <.p>

House of Flying Daggers Zhang- double cross and error. The relativity of error and game theory. A fundamental dilemma: mating across socially constructed barriers of tribe, nation, belief etc.

Wednesday 7 October 2009

. . . fxqi fqxi.org/

Helmut Hansen Helmut Hansen : invisibility. The 'metaphysical' structure of the Universe is a layered communication network. Smallest is quantum of action, largest is the whole system.

Alan Paton Cry the Beloved Country Paton : Ideally the rate of social change should be slow enough to enable people and systems to adapt in real time without breaking.

. . . Metaphysics = communication network theory. Physics = elelctric power network ideally operating at zero entropy. The increase in entropy is caused by mapping and meaning.

[page 2]

Some corollaries of the fxqi paper:

1. Gravitation is not quantized.
2. Instantaneous communication.
3. Photon is not an observer.

Thursday 8 October 2009

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Friday 9 October 2009

Saturday 10 October 2009

. . . Networks / unpredictable due to interruption / observation = halting of Turing Machine. [re Ellis Ellis]

Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Computational universality is an equivalence class.

Is there a direct correspondence of mathematical impossibility with physical impossibility? The answer is that it depends on what physics is made of. If we can successfully reduce all phjysics to mathmatics, then mathematical impossibility in a sense becomes physical impossibility'.

[page 3]

Comment of fixed point theorems:

[Hi Stephen,

You write 'Is there a direct correpondence of mathematical impossibility with physical impossibility. The answer is that it depends of what physics is made of. If we can successfully reduce all physics to mathematics, then mathematical impossibility in a sense becomes physical impossibility.' While the Universe is dynamic, mathematics, at least on paper is formal and static, so one suspects that physics cannot be completely reduced to mathematics. On the other hand, the only things we can say about physics are those which are invariant with respect to time so can be written down in static formal form. This is the beauty of differential equations which capture a dynamic process in a static string of symbols.So perhaps we may think about the relationship between physics and mathematics in terms of fixed point theorems. Since the universal dynamics maps the Universe onto itself (there being by definition nowhere to go outside) we can expect to find fixed points which can be satisfactorily encapsulated in the physical literature and remain true for at least long enough to get published. On this picture, we may think of the dynamics within which we find the fixed points as guaranteeing the mutual consistency of the fixed points. . . . Best regards, Jeffrey Nicholls

Wolfram]

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Misner, Charles W, and Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman 1973 Jacket: 'Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the Universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation to the Universe. John Archibald Wheeler. ... this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity).'
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Paton, Alan, Cry the Beloved Country, Scribner 2003 Amazon editorial review: 'In search of missing family members, Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo leaves his South African village to traverse the deep and perplexing city of Johannesburg in the 1940s. With his sister turned prostitute, his brother turned labor protestor and his son, Absalom, arrested for the murder of a white man, Kumalo must grapple with how to bring his family back from the brink of destruction as the racial tension throughout Johannesburg hampers his attempts to protect his family.'
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Zhang, Yimu, and Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, and Dandan Song, House of flying Dagger5s, Sony Pictures 2005 Amazon Editorial Reviews 'No one uses color like Chinese director Zhang Yimou--movies like Raise the Red Lantern or Hero, though different in tone and subject matter, are drenched in rich, luscious shades of red, blue, yellow, and green. House of Flying Daggers is no exception; if they weren't choreographed with such vigorous imagination, the spectacular action sequences would seem little more than an excuse for vivid hues rippling across the screen. Government officers Leo and Jin (Asian superstars Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro) set out to destroy an underground rebellion called the House of Flying Daggers (named for their weapon of choice, a curved blade that swoops through the air like a boomerang). Their only chance to find the rebels is a blind women named Mei (Ziyi Zhang, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) who has some lethal kung fu moves of her own. In the guise of an aspiring rebel, Jin escorts Mei through gorgeous forests and fields that become bloody battlegrounds as soldiers try to kill them both. While arrows and spears of bamboo fly through the air, Mei, Jin, and Leo turn against each other in surprising ways, driven by passion and honor. Zhang's previous action/art film, Hero, sometimes sacrificed momentum for sheer visual beauty; House of Flying Daggers finds a more muscular balance of aesthetic splendor and dazzling swordplay.' --Bret Fetzer
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