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[Sunday 15 May 2011 - Saturday 21 May 2011]

[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]

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Wednesday 18 May 2011

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Networks are inherently perturbative, even though the actual computers working them are deterministic between perturbations (interrupts, polls).

Wolfram: Mathematica Wolfram Research

Quantum mechanics to understand computer hardware; computer software to understand quantum mechanics.

Mehra page 527: ' "I answered their challenge to write a Hamiltonian of a quantum mechanical system which could be used as a computer. . . . I designed a machine which, working entirely on quantum mechanical laws in principle, would compute." '

Thursday 19 May 2011

Mehra page 603: Lucille (mere de Feynman) ' "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter

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and human compassion." '

page 607: Normal maximum courage required for birth and death, both are completely normal ands mark the creation and annihilation of a stationary point in the Universe, a self sustaining system with a lifetime between 0 and 1 (the lifetime of the Universe).

Feynman Nobel lecture: 'I think the problem is not to find the best or most efficient method to proceed to a discovery, but to find any method at all. Physical reasoning does help some people generate suggestions about how the unknown may be related to the known. Theories of the known, which are described by different physical ideas may be equivalent in all their predictions ands hence scientifically indistinguishable. However, they are not psychologically identical when trying to move on from that base into the unknown. For different views suggests different kinds of modifications which might be made [new observable an be concocted -- measurement] . . . I therefore think that a god theoretical physicist today might find it useful to have a wide range pf physical viewpoints and mathematical expressions of the same theory . . . available to him. This may be asking too much of one man. The new students as a class have this. If each individual student follows the current fashion in expressing and thinking about [the generally understood areas] then the variety of hypotheses being generated to understand [the still open problems] is limited. Perhaps rightly so for possibly the chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But [if] its another direction . . . who will find it?'

The fundamental truth about God is that the only limit on God is local consistency, and ut us from this that we

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develop the idea that God embraces all possibilities that is all ordered sets of all cardinalities.

The key to quantum mechanics is the theory of measurement.

Mehra page 608: Schwinger: " 'So spoke an honest man, the outstanding intuitionist of our age and a prime example of what may lie in store for anyone who dares to follow the beat of a different drum.' " Sees a different spectrum.

Transfinite computer network covers all possibilities.

I have no choice. I am following an irresistable line of development and although it may look pretty amateurish in the light of sophisticated physical productions, it continues yield new insights to me, enough to keep me on the track. This is a personal journey; but if every it should become public then it will be the foundation of a new religious industry.

'The idea is to construct a suitably large mathematical space (which can be transfinitely enlarged) and show that God and the World identically fill this space.

PLAYING is a member of LIVING

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adivine world: most of the religions that have captivated most of the people over the last five thousand years seem to

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have an invisible God or Gods. Why is this so? Why should God be invisible.

The only answer I can think of is political rather than scientific. The theological notion of God seems to have developed with the political notion of monarchy, This is natural if we consider God as the supreme Monarch and all the other monarchs in the world ruling by divine licence from God, the Divine Right of Kings.

I fell in love with you when I met you but am not prepared to face the complexities and uncertainties attendant upon acting on that feeling,

Grob-Fitzgibbon: Imperial Endgame Grob-Fitzgibbon

Grob-Fitzgibbon page 4: 'For as has always been the case with imperialism, illiberal measures are required to protect it. The dirty wars of empire were Britain's imperial endgame. This is their story.'

Energy = processing rate = actions / unit of something

God is at every moment of spacetime the way things are.

Religion is the shell in which we play politics. Part of politics is the politics of religion. We define religion as the force that binds large numbers of unrelated people into cooperative units [constitutions] and politics is the process by which cooperative units decide their own policies and structures.

Some nations are humanity devoid of humanity, North Korea . . .

On the first page I pointed out the constraints placed

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on theology and religion by political forces.

Jerusalem Bible - Introduction to the Pentateuch page 9: 'Israel's civil and religious law developed as the community developed, but law and people were born together.' Jones

How do you start a religion? : by 'preaching' ie telling people about it, ie salesmanship, propaganda, evangelization. But one must have the product first, In the case of natural religion, the product is an epistemological attitude.

Another insight lying in the bath but it is gone now. The general train of thought was the marketing od natural religion, whether it should be commercial of voluntary. Whichever way, it needs to raise funds to pay for research and propaganda.

One advantage of natural religion is that it reveals the fundamentalists feet of clay,trying to impose an invariant order on an inherently dynamic system that generates its own stationary points.

[To New Book ISRAEL DB 71]

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Saturday 21 May 2011

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Christie, Agatha, Toward Zero, Berkley Publishing Group 1998 Jacket: '"I like a good detective story, but they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that." So remarks esteemed criminologist Mr Treves. Truer words have never been spoken, for a psychopathic killer has insinuated himself, with cunning manipulation, into a quiet village on the river Tern. But who is his intended victim? What are his unfathomable motives? And how and when will he reach the point of murder ... the zero point? In this ingenious and noteworthy departure for Agatha Christie, it is the intricate workings of a pathological mind that become the stuff of startling mystery as a group of friends at a seaside resort remain blithely unaware that their weekend will be the death of them all ...'
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Everett III, Hugh, and Bryce S Dewitt, Neill Graham (editors), The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press 1973 Jacket: 'A novel interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed in brief form by Hugh Everett in 1957, forms the nucleus around which this book has developed. The volume contains Dr Everett's short paper from 1957, "'Relativge State' formulation of quantum mechanics" and a far longer exposition of his interpretation entitled "The Theory of the Universal Wave Function" never before published. In addition other papers by Wheeler, DeWitt, Graham, Cooper and van Vechten provide further discussion of the same theme. Together they constitute virtually the entire world output of scholarly commentary on the Everett interpretation.'
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Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin, Imperial Endgame: Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of the Empire, Palgrave Macmillan 2011 Amazon Product Description 'The story of the British Empire in the twentieth century is one of decline, disarray, and despondency. Or so we have been told. In this fresh and controversial account of Britain's end of empire, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon rejects this consensus, showing instead that in the years 1945-1960 the British government developed a successful imperial strategy based on devolving power to indigenous peoples within the Commonwealth. This strategy was calculated to allow decolonization to occur on British terms rather than those of the indigenous populations, and thus to keep these soon-to-be former colonies within the British and Western spheres of influence during the Cold War. To achieve this new form of informal liberal imperialism, however, the government had to rely upon the use of illiberal dirty wars. Spanning the globe from Palestine to Malaya, Kenya to Cyprus, these dirty wars represented Britain's true imperial endgame.'
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Jones, Alexander (ed), The Jerusalem Bible, Darton Longman and Todd 1966 Editor's Foreword: '. . . The Bible . . . is of its nature a written charter guaranteed (as Christians believe) by the Spirit of God, crystallised in antiquity, never to be changed . . . . This present volume is the English equivalent of [La Bible de Jerusalem] . . . an entirely faithful version of the ancient texts which, in doubntful points, preserves the text established and (for the most part) the interpretation adopted by the French scholars in the light of the most recent researches in the fields of history, archaeology and literary criticism.' (v-vi)
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Martel, Yann, The Life of Pi, Harcourt 2002 Editorial Reviews Amazon.com: 'Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
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Papers

Chaitin, Gregory J, "Randomness and Mathematical Proof", Scientific American, 232, 5, May 1975, page 47-52. 'Although randomness can be precisely defined and can even be measured, a given number cannot be proved random. This enigma establishes a limit in what is possible in mathematics'. back

Dobzhansky, Theodosius, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution", American Biology Teacher, 35, 3, 12 November 1937, page 125-129. Concluding paragraph: 'One of the great thinkers of our age, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, wrote the following: "Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems much henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of though must follow this is what evolution is." Of course, some scientists, as well as some philosophers and theologians, disagree with some parts of Teilhard’s teachings; the acceptance of his worldview falls short of universal. But there is no doubt at all that Teilhard was a truly and deeply religious man and that Christianity was the cornerstone of his worldview. Moreover, in his worldview science and faith were not segregated in watertight compartments, as they are with so many people. They were harmoniously fitting parts of his worldview. Teilhard was a creationist, but one who understood that the Creation is realized in this world by means of evolution.'. back

Goedel, Kurt, "On formally undecidable problems of Principia Mathematica and related systems I", Monatshefte fur Mathematik und Physik, 38, , 1931, page 173-198. Reprinted in Goedel, Kurt, Kurt Goedel: Collected Works Volume 1 Publications 1929-1936, Oxford UP 1986 pp 144-195. Amazon. back

Shannon, Claude E, "The mathematical theory of communication", Bell System Technical Journal, 27, , July and October, 1948, page 379-423, 623-656. 'A Note on the Edition Claude Shannon's ``A mathematical theory of communication'' was first published in two parts in the July and October 1948 editions of the Bell System Technical Journal [1]. The paper has appeared in a number of republications since: • The original 1948 version was reproduced in the collection Key Papers in the Development of Information Theory [2]. The paper also appears in Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers [3]. The text of the latter is a reproduction from the Bell Telephone System Technical Publications, a series of monographs by engineers and scientists of the Bell System published in the BSTJ and elsewhere. This version has correct section numbering (the BSTJ version has two sections numbered 21), and as far as we can tell, this is the only difference from the BSTJ version. • Prefaced by Warren Weaver's introduction, ``Recent contributions to the mathematical theory of communication,'' the paper was included in The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published by the University of Illinois Press in 1949 [4]. The text in this book differs from the original mainly in the following points: • the title is changed to ``The mathematical theory of communication'' and some sections have new headings, • Appendix 4 is rewritten, • the references to unpublished material have been updated to refer to the published material. The text we present here is based on the BSTJ version with a number of corrections.. back

Turing, Alan, "On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2, 42, 12 November 1937, page 230-265. 'The "computable" numbers maybe described briefly as the real numbers whose expressions as a decimal are calculable by finite means. Although the subject of this paper is ostensibly the computable numbers, it is almost as easy to define and investigate computable functions of an integrable variable or a real or computable variable, computable predicates and so forth. The fundamental problems involved are, however, the same in each case, and I have chosen the computable numbers for explicit treatment as involving the least cumbrous technique. I hope shortly to give an account of the rewlations of the computable numbers, functions and so forth to one another. This will include a development of the theory of functions of a real variable expressed in terms of computable numbers. According to my definition, a number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine'. back

Wilson, Kenneth G, "The Renormalisation Group and Critical Phenomena", Reviews of Modern Physics, 55, , July 1983, page 583. back

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Kenneth G Wilson The Renormalisation Group and Critical Phenomena Nobel Prize Lecture, 8 December 1982 back

Sylvia Berryman Democritus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Phlosophy 'Democritus, known in antiquity as the ‘laughing philosopher’ because of his emphasis on the value of ‘cheerfulness,’ was one of the two founders of ancient atomist theory. He elaborated a system originated by his teacher Leucippus into a materialist account of the natural world. The atomists held that there are smallest indivisible bodies from which everything else is composed, and that these move about in an infinite void space.' back

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