VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 23 May 2010 - Saturday 29 May 2010]
[Notebook: DB 69: Creation]
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Sunday 23 May 2010
Tymoczko Philosophy of Mathematics: Rene Thom. Tymoczko, Rene Thom - Wikipedia
My problem at the moment with Creation is the possession of a forest of ideas ranging from logical to theological which I am having trouble organizing into a coherent narrative.
Introduction: dynamics and fixed points.
Tymoczko page 72: 'There is no rigorous definition of rigour. We
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will therefore assume that any proof is rigourous is it wins acceptance by all readers who are adequately educated and prepared to understand it. Furthermore, the evidence leading to persuasion results from having a sufficiently clear understanding of each of the symbols involved so that their combination convinces the reader. From this point of view rigour (or its contrary, imprecision) is essentially a local property of mathematical reasoning. No elaborate axiomatic structure or refined conceptual machine is needed to judge the validity of a line of reasoning. It suffices merely to have an understanding of each symbol involved and a clear idea of how to combine them.'
Actus purus = pure action. But fixed point theorem says pure action in a compact complex place leads to fixed points.
Quantum mechanics represents the fact that even from a formal point of view, multiple different outcomes are consistent with a given input situation.
Quantum mechanics may be seen as a linear algebra constrained only by orthonormality.
Quantum computation completely overlooks the dynamics of quantum processes (which depend heavily on timing) just as Turing machines overlook the dynamics of changes of machine state. In real physical computers, we use the clock to isolate the dynamic processes of change of state from the fixed states that succeed one another in an actual computation.
Our first step is to interpret the complex and rather unintuitive formalism of quantum mechanics in terms of networks, something we understand very well because we are inherently network communicators.
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That is what I am doing here, trying to get a hearing on the network of professional philosophers.
Let us assume at the outset that quantum mechanics describes the real Universe perfectly as far as it goes. As far as I am aware., there is no empirical evidence against this proposal.
We must pass over much detail, but let us admit here that I find the mathematics of quantum mechanics fascinatingly beautiful. The core of this beauty for me lies in the many and varied amazing properties of the complex exponential. As I point out below, we may regard the quantum mechanical energy equation as isomorphic to the classical model of God expounded by Aquinas. On the other hand I have to admit that the mathematics of quantum mechanics is often beyond me and I rely more on general impressions that completed calculations.
Tymoczko page 126: '. . . the following essays argue the philosophical relevance of mathematical practice. the critical stem in approaching them is to conceive of mathematics as rational human activity.'
More generally, mathematics is a rational universal activity since in the network model human activity is a new layer in the network which obeys the same general [protocols].
The assumption behind philosophy is that every philosopher takes personal responsibility for her or his actual positions, and so is allowed to write in the first person rather that
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the intransitive third person grammar which we were taught at school [for writing up our science].
The amazing thing about the continuous mathematics of quantum mechanics is that it naturally produces stationary states.
Three axioms and two rules: Very simple. Now to interpret them.
1. Hilbert space and unitary operations
2. Eigenvalues - the stationary points
3. P = |ψ|2
How did I get here? via Lonergan.
Lonergan's claim that there are meaningless data (empirical residue) is the Universe is tantamount to claiming that it is a puppet whose motions have no reason within itself but can only be understood when one includes the puppeteer. It is the puppeteer that is living, not the puppets. The alternative is that the real Universe is a living god, and that every event in God has a pedigree that extends back to the source of the Universe, call it God, the initial singularity, Shiva or a host of other names in different cultures.
Rawson page 102: 'II Sex and reality: Tantra's view of the final goal is shaped by a vision of cosmic sexuality. The male principle of Universal Creation is the seed of Being, which is at the same time infinitesimally small and all-embracing. It is often cal;led Shiva, and represented by an erect male organ or lingam. The female principle, projected from the male, is the Goddess or Shakti, who is the active partner, spreading out space, time and the Universe before each
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individual. She is the nearer for worship that the male principle, in many guises, and under many names. Most important is the reverence pair to her female generative organs of the world, the yoni or vulva.' Rawson
'Sexual intercourse is thus taken as a paradigm or symbol of divine worship and bliss. Performed in special ways with appropriate rituals and mantra it can be the most powerful possible aid towards the goal of enlightenment. From ancient times specially endowed female initiators have been the partners in advance sexual rituals. In Tibetan Tantra there have been translated into the image of the dancing (often red) Dakini.' Dakini - Wikipedia
Contrast this with the Catholic attitude to sexuality and ask what is the more realistic religion?
What do we mean by enlightenment? More than pleasure? The ability to take pleasure in an situation, ie to deal courageously with the hardships of life. I have to get used to the idea that although I want a laptop, for winter, the market is going down and I do not want to touch my diminishing capital. Things will improve (I hope).
WORK = COMMUNICATION
Mathematical practice (Tymoczky page 127) is the physical embodiment of mathematics in mathematicians and their works (= all communications) COMMUNICATION = WORK (changing the state of the system).
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. . .
Mathematics can describe mathematical practice through the transfinite symmetric neural network. Noetic network.
nice term NOETIC NETWORK
To simplify marketing the idea (increase its intelligibility? - no sex appeal) we might rebadge the transfinite symmetric network as te noetic network.
The eigenvalues of a network are the ideas that take hold, ie the software that reproduces itself the most (Google, Facebook etc).
Tymoczko page 127: '. . . mathematical practice is essentially the justification of mathematician's claim to knowledge.' [and sustenance]
'. . . it may well be that the verification of proofs is a public affair, an elaborate social process that proceeds by canons and paradigms of a particular community of experts.'
T page 128: 'So one can only reject the thesis that mathematical practice is a viable topic in the philosophy of mathematics by backing oneself into an exceedingly narrow philosophical corners. I can see no reason for doing this other than an antecedent commitment to foundationalism. Without the doctrine of foundationalism, the way is clear to a reexamination of mathematical practice.
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Finding eigenvalues comes down to solving polynomials. [the characteristic polynomial]
Aristotle: 'Of course I love Plato, but I love truth more.' Nichomachean Ethics I:6. Aristotle
'. . . while both are dear, piety requires is to honour truth above our friends.' 1096a16. Piety - Wikipedia
Wang in Tymoczko pafe 131: Mathematics concerned with the formal skeletons of things.
'. . . calculation is not itself an experiment, since once the path is found . . .'
Does this follow? Calculation gives us instances of truth that may lead us to generalization.
Wang page 132: Proving Pythagoras theorem by finding the right diagram and seeing that c2 = a2 + b2 'fits' as a de Broglie wave fits a potential well or a potential gradient.
W page 136: ' . . . to call several pages of printed marks a proof presupposes a good deal of the sociological circumstances which made them a proof.'
The Universe creates its own resources for the physical representation of information.
'There is a great gap between what can be done in principle and what can be done in practice.' page 138. The Universe also feels this gap as it wends its way from omnino simplex to omnino complex.
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A proof is a wormhole in a noetic network? Not so much a wormhole as business as usual.
All provable theorems are provable by propositional calculus. As the trick with quantum mechanics is to find s basis in which things appear simple, so in a proof the skill lies in finding and giving meaning to a set of terms to be filled into the proposition, like the cargo into a vehicle. So, in linear algebra we seem to have found a language to describe a significant foundational process in the universal process. It is linear, which means additive. All the inputs and outputs to quantum mechanics [have a definite form defined by a state vector]. What counts is what we are counting.
What we are looking for is a mathematical description of practical mathematics, this is an endlessly recursive process becasuse whenever we achieve it we have to start again because our achievement has added a new layer to the system which must now be described in a further layers, the transfinite Peano's axiom. Whereas adding 1 a la Peano is in a sense an arbitrary action, Cantor has proved that transfinite numbers are forced by consistency to increase. What we are thinking that every permutation of the alphabet of a source is possible, and at the lowest level of resolution all the possibilities are equiprobable, maximizing entropy. Then some of the possibilities turn out to be stationary states, points of accumulation or in some other way fixed that move probability distributions away from flat toward spectral.
Are proteins ordered? by descent, yes, nut their overall morphology must approach random,, whatever that may mean. Maybe not, certain substructures are preferred, an alphabet of building blocks.
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Wang page 142: 'We understand arithmetic better than set theory, as evidenced by the highly informative consistency proofs for arithmetic. The foundation of arithmetic is more trustworthy than that of set theory -- what would be of greater interest is rather to found set theory on arithmetic, or an extension of arithmetic to infinite ordinals.
Wang page 143: '. . . the close connection to the physical world is an essential feature which separates mathematics from games with symbols. Mathematics coincides with all that is exact in science.
We cannot span the Cantor Universe with a Turing machine, we need a network of Turing machines [rather like the atlas of a manifold].
Wang page 145: '. . . . This suggests the possibility of a web of axiom systems such that each system determines an abstract structure [eg electron?] viz the class of all possible models of the system.'
W page 147: '3.5.8 It is not easy to understand why functions of complex variables turned out to be so elegant and useful. . . . Incidentally if we require the axioms of fields to be satisfied,, extensions of complex numbers are not possible.
Monday 24 May 2010
On doubt again, it being a bleak Monday morning.
One does not doubt the proposition the Universe is Divine, but the social problems of getting a hearing, making a living etc are inclined to make one look for another job. But
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not really. it may take a century before this idea sweeps the world but the potential for human salvation is enormous.
The Titanic effect: '... the severity with which a system fails is directly proportional to the intensity of the designer's belief that it cannot fail. De Millo, Lipton and Perlis in Tymoczko page 279.
our system is built on Christianity which claims infallibility, whose failure promises quasi- extinction for humans. The most dangerous component of Xian belief is that the Universe was made just for is, and that God killed his Son for us so that everything would be allright on the end, at least for believers. Many Christians are emboldened by the fact that Unbelievers face an eternity of Hell.
Creation and resolution" I have glimpsed it (in an unresolved way).
Reliable never means perfect. De Millo, Lipton and Perlis in T page 282.
Gödel: either it is inconsistent or it is incomplete, ie any formal proof procedure = (?) any Turing Computable process.
Now Gödel's theorem itself is a fixed point in the dynamics of the Universe and is in a way the explanation of the dynamics. Gödel's theorem appears as a fixed point in the dialogue of mathematicians and we would like to apply it to the whole Universe by claiming that the dialogue of mathematicians is isomorphic to all other dialogues in the Universe.
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Tymoczko page 289: 'Actually the moral [of Chaitin's work] is more general: insofar as we precisely and consistently specify the methods of reasoning permitted, we determine the upper bound to the complexity of our results. (This upper bound is the information theoretic limit imposed by Gödel's theorem).'
To physically represent formal logical computations we use the clock pulse to damp out the dynamics of the transition from state to state so that all the formal process sees are the kinematic sequence of logical state that are its stationary points but we have faith [that] the dynamics of the hardware will yield true representations of logical gates and so on.
The 'Gödel layers' in the Cantor Universe enjoy Cantor symmetry,
Mommsen in Pais Inward page 131: '"History distinguishes itself from its sister disciplines by its inability to bring its elements into a proper theoretical disposition."' Pais
the fixed points, like us, are fixed points in the global dynamics, just as we (considered as fixed points) are 'inside' god.
Pais 371: 'in his papers Planck alluded to the inspiration he has received from Boltzmann's statistical methods. But in Boltzmann's case the question was to determine the most probable way in which a fixed number of distinguishable gas molecules with fixed total energy and distributed over cell in phase space. The corresponding counting problem . . . has nothing to do with Planck's counting of partitions of indistinguishable objects., the energy elements. in fact this new way of counting,
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which prefigures the Bose-Einstein counting of a quarter of a century later cannot be justified by any stretch of the classical imagination. Planck himself knew that and said so.
We may think of the Bible as a function and write it into a function space with as many dimensions as there are are letters in the bible, the value of each dimension being the corresponding letter.
Gödel: the past, no matter how complex, cannot possibly determine the future.
Atoms of action combine seamlessly to produce larger actions. The action is simple, although it has fixed points corresponding to all of its constituent actions: for every action (mapping of a compact convex set onto itself) there is a fixed point which amounts s[to an observable message.
The hippie ideal was free love. It has taken a bit of a battering over the years as the offspring go to school and we come into contact with the bureaucracy (ie the social set of algorithms) and are forced to adapt by the necessity to survive, but the dream remains. What do we mean by free love? Practically it means liberating lust from its ancient social constraints. The keys to this liberation are contraception and homosexuality, that is non reproductive sexuality and the associated love that arises from such intimacy.
Tuesday 25 May 2010
Why are there atoms of action: fixed point + Shannon.
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'I love her' is a statement that has meaning at all levels of complexity. A necessary but not sufficient condition is that lovers be peers. What else? The indescribable?
'You belly kills me. I want to kiss you so much.' How do we see this in the light of Cantor symmetry?
Pornographic theology: easily the easiest to sell!
The scientific life is a subset of the real (full complexity, complete basis) life. [repression is to reduce the cardinal of the basis: carnal cardinals]
The real test of a philosophy is how it treats lust and love, the potentials of the human world.
The beauty of the Universe is to feel itself.
Cosmic eroticism: the pr department will love this.
Overall the portrayal of sexuality on the net is as sinful rather than joyful, and we probably owe this to the old religions where sexual activity was tightly bound to reproduction.
Although the fundamentalists are always seeking absolute certainty, the fact is that the future is a rather uncertain p[l;ace because there are so many possibilities [as a consequence of the rapid growth of transfinite numbers].
A romance is possibly a constructed thing [but its cardinal is greater than that of either participant, so requisite variety limits our control Ashby]
On the whole we might say that the Universe is
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romantic and the odds of success in any venture are about 1 / e, favouring stability but allowing for jumps, ie, 'quantum leaps'.
Physics may lead us to believe that the Universe is a very high precision thing which it may be at the hardware layer, but it becomes vaguer as it becomes more complex because there are so many more possibilities.
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Tarski: 'Cardinal Algebras'. Tarski
The network of the Universe reflects both the vagueness and precision of my mind. Much of the vagueness lies in remembering where I have put one of the 500 or so tools, utensils, and books that i use. On the other hand, I am capable of the precision of these sentences which (at this time) appear to say exactly what I want to say.
Tarksi 1941b Fefferman page 409. Feferman & Feferman Tarski
Quantum mechanics tells us what we already know intuitively, that everything depends upon timing. This is how music works. It is all timing (or its inverse, frequency) [often subtley perturbed from predictability]
What we sek through this dust of words os some clarity of vision, a clear understanding of our predicament and how to deal with it.
The depressing and depressed view of the world characteristic
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of most ancient religions is fate based: accept it, there is nothing you can do about your condition. A more modern view (and in many cases an ancient one too) is that we can do something about our condition, and we have a history of health care, improved nutrition and population growth to prove it. [In the days when lords lorded it over their subjects, the only way to improve things was to pray to the Lord. In most cases practical action outperforms prayer when it is possible.]
COMPUTER = SYNCHRONOUS (centrally controlled)
NETWORK. - LOCAL = ISOLATED = ADIABATIC
When we talk of the isomorphism of the traditional God with the isolated quantum system, it is necessary to abstract from the cultural embodiment of these models and consider them in themselves.
The axiom of God = World: not(p and not-p) This axiom is realized when p is well defined but not when it is infinite, as in a quantum mechanical superposition which is taken to mean the simultaneous mixture of many different states.
Thursday 27 May 2010
Logic deals with the relationships of hypothetical fixed points in the Universe whose relationships are fixed by the dynamics in which they are embedded.
Here we are taking a physical approach to mathematics: as long as we stick close to the data revealed by the world we cannot go too far wring because we assume the world to be consistent and so any mathematical model which is in
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one-to-one correspondence with the world must also be consistent. This is the lesson of quantum theory, that in the continuous world there is no information so no inconsistency can arise as long as we limit our attempts at precision to the bounds defined by the uncertainty principle.
Quantum mechanics falls neatly into two halves, the invisible and the visible.[We postulate the invisible to explain the visible]
Having suggested that quantum mechanics can be imagined in terms of networks we can avoid some of the intricacies of the linear algebra that lies at the heart of quantum mechanics and talk about it in terms of communication, as is done by the quantum computation and quantum communication trade.
SCIENCE is a form of TRADE between individuals (the scientists) and the collective (taxpayers, shareholders, donors etc).
Our physiological paradigm is the sequence of processes through which the visual data passes on its way from eyes to consciousness, and of course hearing and all other complex natural processes.
In order to converse, I must convert the contents of my consciousness into streams of photons and phonons which you can decode in your own way and formulate a reply to my message.
Google exhibits the brute force approach to translation, correlating billions of words of text. This may be the only
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way given the richness of natural language.
The iterative processes of conversation allow us to define precise points such as the time we have to leave home to get to the match on time.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - Wikipedia
PEACE = FAIR TRADE
WAR = INJUSTICE (UNFAIR TRADE, RAPE & PILLAGE)
The question is: is the idea worth working for. And the answer is yes. The result of work is definition and clarification, and when the idea is fully clear we would expect it to sell itself. What is the fully clear idea? given the requisite conditions, the world creates itself (grows) and so what we need to do is establish those conditions and peace and creation will follow, like gardening (Peter Sellers [Being There Being There - Wikipedia] So we are looking for the necessary and sufficient conditions for creation, and thus a catalogue of the means that are used to suppress creation by dictatorships of various forms which fear an increase in the variety of their subjects. If the necessary conditions can be found and established the world will be a better place for my children, an instance of my biological role as father and grandfather.
Trying to work hard and intelligently and continue in the belief that completing an article on creation is a priority.
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Each deterministic system has an ordered set of operations that can be mapped onto the natural numbers.
Nazism fails simply because it is inconsistent with human life, like Catholicism and all those other systems that claim to be complete.
Once we can establish the Universe as an organized and addressable flow of information driven by a hidden consistent process, we can begin applying the discoveries of logic (mutatis mutandis directly to the Universe, finding in the process that at every level there is an uncertainty principle there that is roughly the same size as the typical minimum action at that level. ,p. Quantum mechanics is about the fact that all information is encoded physically but that at the bottom layer, the isolated quantum system, there is no entropy and no information because this system is, for all we know, omnino simplex.
Pais [Subtle] page 30: Einstein: '"What I found in the quantum domain are only occasional insights or fragments which were produced in the course of fruitless struggles with the grant problem."' ,p> Events, like the second world war or the Darwin cyclone are no more sharp;ly defined than quantum wave-packets.
Clausius 'Entropy" 1865; Pais page 60. Rudolf Clausius - Wikipedia
Maxwell on atom: 'Though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, through ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their
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ruins, the molecules [ie atoms] out of which these systems are built -- the foundation stones [states] of the Universe remain unbroken and unworn. They continue this day, as they ere created, perfect in number and measure and weight. Pais page 82. Maxwell
Friday 28 May 2010
To be a centre of attraction / condensation is to become a 'star, gaining enough interaction from the attractive potential to initiate other processes (thermonuclear fusion, record production). One cannot have disproportionate influence without this phenomenon, that is without attracting many readers (hearers, etc).
Einstein on Brownian motion: Pais page 97: '[
Part of the more general mechanism independent motion (connected to a symmetry) changing to coupled motion by the 'discovery' of a stationary state corresponding to a sequence of actions. So we might see ir in the absorbtion of a random photon by an atom so moving an electron from an orbit that is maintened by a single action (anfular momentum 1) to one maintained by a sequence of n actions (n = principal quantum mumber). Dissipation may not be so necessary as the creation of the stationary state, that is a stable potential.
The theistic / deterministic view of the Universe is that everything is determined, it just looks random to us. One of the strongest outposts of this view is the belief in the power of quantum computing where people believe that continuous variables have
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sufficient entropy to store an infinite amount of informatin and continuous operators can act on all this information simultaneously. But what if it is just not there and that the Universe is in fat a rather indeterminate system of symbols (at least that is what it communicates) that slowly defines itself as it becomes more complex. This is a tautology since definition (cardinality) is directly related to complexity. We measure complexity by counting definite (ie orthogonal, non-overlapping) states.
When we represent a book by a Hilbert function space we presuppose a definite order of the dimensions by mapping them to the natural numbers. An isolated function space does not have this order (the dimensions are symmetrical) so when we observe it we may see any one of its dimensions as picked out by our measurement operator.
The personal struggle is to feel authentic.Although I like to shrug off my expulsion from the Dominicans and concentrate on the manyy benefits it has brought me (how nightmarish to be in there still), to be rejected by such a major organization in my social world is to be in a large degree rejected from society, which is probably why I am still sitting here in the country trying to build up my case until it is strong enough to be vindicated in a proper hearing. (Wrote to the Pope on these lines last Friday 22/5.) My mental state is a superposition of varying potentials, hunger, thirst, the need to finish a plumbing job, the need to wait for some phone calls, the possibility of getting stuck if I go to work because the track us muddy and it is raining . . . etc etc. I can only respond to them one at a time, and the probability of
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my response is a function of the strength of the potential. The outcome, of course, is that I am writing this paragraph, the desire to write has won, but the writing (interrupted by the phone call) has dissipated the potential, visitors are on the way and the dominant urge now is to light the fire.
Why is the velocity of light the same for all observers, regardless of their relative velocities? It is a symmetry, and like other symmetries, things are the same because there is no reason for difference. What is constant is not the velocity of light but the velocity of light as measured by an observer (in a vacuum, et). We have become accustomed to saying that the finite velocity of light is the result of communication delay caused by error resistant encoding. The is goodish in principle, but it will need some sort of mechanism to explain how it works.
Michelson & Morley Pais Subtle page 112.
Since the locomotion of inertial frames is irrelevant to the velocity of light, we are led to suspect that it is a feature of a layer deeper ('more physical') than space, and is in some way related to the fixed value of the quantum of action, which itself has something to do with communication. At this level space (memory) has yet to come to be and all we have are time, [action] and frequency. Time of itself is not a degree of freedom (since we cannot in any way change it locally) but rather a manifestation of the pure action of the Universe.
Michelson in Pais page 115: '" . . . without a medium, how can the propagation of light be explained? . . . How explain
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the constancy of propagation, the fundamental assumption (at least of the restricted theory) is there be no medium?"'
The Universe does not exist in a medium. it is its own medium, ie its own hardware and we assume that the hardest hardware is the initial singularity, pure action, which appears in spacetime a stationary point, the velocity of light. This velocity is a result of an initial mapping of the Universe onto itself, perhaps the mapping (layer) subsequent to the ayer whose stationary point is the quantum of action. All these mappings (in their proper layer) are identical, but appear in more and more concrete instances as the Universe complexifies, ie its dynamics grows more stationary points.
For a photon (and all bosons) space does not exist and so everywhere is local for them.
SPACE - MEMORY - POTENTIAL vs TIME - TRANSFORMATION - KINETIC.
Time comes first its stationary point being the conservation of energy. So which layer is defined by E = hf? Higher of lower than the energy equation (Schrödinger dψ/dt = Eψ), ψ = exp(i/h E), so frequency of ψ = E/h, or its period is h/E.
The aim of theoretical physics is to dream up a calculation (algorithm or set of algorithms) that agrees with observation and to both use and find the calculation from wondering how something (like the propagation of light) might work.
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Poincaré 1898: Pais page 126: 'We have no direct intuition about the equality of two time intervals. People who believe they have this intuition are dupes of an illusion.'
Poincaré 1900: Pais 127: 'One knows where our belief in the aether stems from. When light is in its way to us from a far star . . . it is no longer on the star and not yet on earth. it is necessary that it is somewhere, sustained, so to say, by some material support.'
We cannot observe a photon 'on the way' without destroying it. From the photon's point of view, its space-time path is a null geodesic, so we can say that it is nowhere - photons do not exist in space although they can be emitted and absorbed by sources in space [ie they are a component of a layer below space].
Einstein: Pais 132: 'It is never easy to talk about how I got the theory of relativity because there would be various concealed complexities to motivate human thinking and because they worked with different weights.' (like eigenfunctions of an operator).
Light cannot be transformed to rest, ie it is purely kinetic, a stat than antedates potential?
Pais page 138: 'Special relativity represents the abandonment of mechanical pictures as an aid to the interpretation of electromagnetism.'
Einstein: Pais page 139: 'My solution[to the problem of special relativity] was really for the very concept of time, that is that time is not absolutely defined but there is a inseparable connection between time
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and signal velocity.'
Pais page 141: 'There are as many times as there are inertial frames'. ie each inertial frame is synchronous within itself but distinct inertial frames are asynchronous. The invention of space out of inertial frames is relatively simultaneous - ie a symmetry breaking. The breaking of symmetries does not destroy the symmetry. it simply means that elements which are symmetrical in layer n can be treated differently from one another (symmetry broken) in layer n + 1.
The interaction of light and matter is to be explained by the interaction of two layers, the matter layer (space-time) being built out of the light layer (pure time ticking by 'acts').
Formalism may be seen as a concomitant of a monkish way of life motivated by the feeling that there is something wrong with the world [and] this becomes a self fulfilling prophecy the monks seek to justify their ways by finding errors in the world.
I want to go and plumb, but it is just too wet so home and write, which may have better long term prospects but it is hard for me to se it as real profitable work. I guess this view will remain until someone pays me for some writing, at least takes notice.
Fowles Collector page 144: 'I don't think the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has much change of affecting the government. it is one of the first things y9u have to face up to. But we do it to keep our self-respect, to show ourselves, each one to himself or herself,
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that we care. . . . the only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe -- so long as it is something more than belief in your own comfort.'
But comfort comes from 'feeling and living what you believe' because that is to reflect oneself and be normalized. My 'complex conjugate' is my mirror image in the real axis. Analyze that! We multiply by reflection: The Father and the Son (Word).
TRINITY -- QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Major reorganization of Creation.
Fowles 1521: '. . . I want to make beauty.'
FORMALISM (COLD) vs RHETORIC (HOT)
We think of the Spirit as the stationary point (the love) between Father and Son. Love exists in the product space, analogous to entanglement.
Fowles page 169: 'They're teaching you to express personality at the Slade -- personality in general. But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint its no go if your personality isn't worth translating. Its all luck. Pure hazard.'
We might assume that because the ancient theologians were pretty much on the right track (attested by the survival of their doctrine by people being ready to fight for it) so that any new theology will be a development of the old, contradicting
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dead ends and building on the sound parts.
We are our best friends.
The essence of the model is that the initial singularity grows within itself
so it is a mapping onto itself and so 'generating' fixed points, each corresponding to one of the mappings. The Word is a map of God. Jesus is a map of God. We all are.
The writers of the New Testament invented the Trinity and the Incarnation in a vague (undefined) literary form which led the theologians to generate models of the Trinity and the Incarnation that eventually hardened into creeds and dogmas that still motivate the faithful seeking understanding.
The act of intelligence is to generate a fixed point. So the interaction of two quantum systems is to generate a particle, a message between them. So the electronic stationary states of an atom are represented by an orthonormal basis in some Hilbert space and photons serve as the messengers between these states, being emitted or absorbed as the need to increase or decrease angular momentum requires. The stationary states are fixed but invisible. What we observe are the transitions between them. All transitions in the Universe are physically represented by sets of quantum transitions.
Fowles page 210: 'I suddenly felt I didn't want to paint, painting is just showing off, the thing was to experience and to experience for ever more' But experience motivates some of us to act, write.
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How can God be the fullness of being and yet create another being the World) separate from itself? Not possible therefore God = World, or at least God ⊃ World, World ∈ {God}. The Church weasels its way out of inconsistencies like this by claiming that everything to do with God is a mystery.
Saturday 29 May 2010
