Notes
[Sunday 10 April 2011 - Saturday 16 April 2011]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
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Sunday 10 April 2011
Theology: Quantum computation changes the probability structure of a quantum source. Quantum mechanics things in terms of observer and observed, the observer being a human physicist and the observed being some element of the world, but physicists occupy no special place in the quantum mechanical world and we do best to simply consider interactions between two entities each of which begins in a certain state before the interaction and ends up in a certain state after the interaction.
In quantum mechanics the probabilities computed by the energy equation are invariant while individual events are unpredictable. The major problem in quantum mechanics from a philosophical point of view is reconciling deterministic and probabilistic. In theology this is the problem of free will. The major difference between Catholicism and natural religion is that Catholicism believes that God (the whole) is deterministic, so that God can be omniscient and predict [know] the future whereas natural religion accepts that the future is uncertain because the possibilities are always more numerous than the actualities and so cannot be controlled by them.
Atom has < ℵ0 states.
ℵ1 = 2ℵ0 = a sequence of ℵ0 letters ℵ0 long gives ℵ1 possibilities.
What we need to do is use the trsnsfinite tensor product to generate the Cantor Universe.
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Superposition does not order the elements of the superposition, they all exist simultaneously as solutions of the differential equation governing the system.
Not that long ago it seemed perfectly clear to me that we could go from quantum mechanics to God and now in Israel it has all gone out of focus and the story has faded. But do not lose faith -- the world is divine and the world is described by quantum mechanics, so we should be able to fit them together though I personally have not managed it in 50 years. The previous version depended on starting with the pure act and then using the father / son substance / logos image to show how the gods multiply into 2, 3 etc.
Can we say that observables are the stationary points in the pure dynamics, and being stationary, they are also part of the past.
The trinitarian analogy suggests that the multiplication of stationary states arises from communication.
The stationary element of the isolated system is the differential equation partial d psi / dt = H psi, which is invariant with respect to the cardinality of psi The development of new stationary points is equivalent to the development of new dimensions in the Hilbert space which correspond, for instance, to new atomic orbitals each of which corresponds to an eigenfunction. Perhaps we would do best to start with the harmonic oscillator.
What we are having here is another spin of the die -- then entry of fixed point theory over the last few months has taken the whole game to a new level of abstraction. What we are looking at now is a view of the Cantor Universe as the stationary points in the
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real Universe.
Now the fides is seriously seeking the intellectum, 18 days to get to it before we leave Israel.
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This first volume sets out a vision for a "scientific theology" in which the working assumptions of the natural sciences are critically appropriated as a theological resource. It then deals at length with the important status of nature, a concept that has rarely been given the serious consideration it deserves. Responding to the view that the term "nature" is merely a social construct, McGrath gives the concept a proper grounding in the Christian doctrine of creation, exploring in the process the use of natural theology in contemporary Christian thought.
A Scientific Theology is certain to become one of the most controversial and exciting theological publications of the decade.
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This first volume sets out a vision for a "scientific theology" in which the working assumptions of the natural sciences are critically appropriated as a theological resource. It then deals at length with the important status of nature, a concept that has rarely been given the serious consideration it deserves. Responding to the view that the term "nature" is merely a social construct, McGrath gives the concept a proper grounding in the Christian doctrine of creation, exploring in the process the use of natural theology in contemporary Christian thought.
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