Notes
[Sunday 9 October 2011 - Saturday 15 October 2011]
[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]
Sunday 9 October 2011
Monday 10 October 2011
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Tuesday 11 October 2011
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Physics describes the global flow of meaningless (cardinal) units (quanta) of action, We can see these flows as a set of sources and sinks ('orbits', 'states') joined by communication channels that carry 'gauge' particles. The mechanics of quantum theory provides a good model for describing the nature of the orbits and the frequency of communication between them.
The wave / particle dichotomy is a false dichotomy, comparing expectation values (waves) to actual events (particles).
My concern up to now has been to stand back as far as possible to get a view of the whole. My starting idea is that the world is constrained only by logical consistency. It is impossible (a tautology) to observe an actual inconsistency, that is the same thing being two or more things, The quantum mechanical notion of superposition verges on logical inconsistency when we ask ourselves how many different states can coexist 'on top of one another'. The practical answer to this problem is that we only see the eigenstates of our observable one at a time.
What flows in the cosmic plumbing is probability, that is the frequency of an event. Since there is always something happening
Probabilistic frequency is a ratio of events black ball / white ball.
Design Patterns : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Gamma et al Gamma
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The principal modern application of epistemology is in health and safety, more generally quality control, designed to prevent 'bad' outcomes in day to fay life and activities. At the human level, we may connect epistemology and civility, hypothesizing that in the long term truth leads to good relationships, the moral output of good religion. Ikegami
Jesus identified hypocrisy as the principal failing of the religious hierarchy of his community, and delivered some memorable phrases in his condemnation of it : 'brood of vipers' springs to mind, although currently we would recognise that vipers are no more hypocritical than any other creature. ['Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape being condemned to hell?' Mt 23:33] It is a feature of divinity that hypocrisy is a very potent survival strategy, as Jesus learnt to his cost. The vipers struck him down and his real triumph took hundreds of years to emerge when the Christians (hypocritically?) took over the Roman Empire.
We map the evolution (creation) of the world onto the transfinite computer network. Using the Cantor symmetry we can explain all there is to be explained by the relationship between two consecutive transfinite cardinals, remembering that each 'unit' in Cantor's double abstraction is a quantum of action, an event, and that distinguishable events can be strung together in the manner of a Turing machine (deterministic) or network (indeterministic) to produce a complex process some of which are capable of catalysing their own reproduction, so copying themselves until they
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reach some equilibrium with the available resources or become extinct.
Another fleeting glimpse of something in the forest. Inspired by Owen Jones Guardian 11 October 2011. Owen Jones
So much of this stuff is depressingly banal, overburden which has to be moved to get to the good stuff we hope to find underneath.
The transition between hypothesis and faith comes when one becomes sufficiently convinced of the truth of one's hypothesis to trust one's health, life, comfort or fortune on it. So I build a scaffold which from long experience will hold me. I push it around a bit to see if is strong, and finally climb up it and start loading it with bricks of whatever because now I have faith in my scaffold.
So I am coming to trust natural theology. It is certainly safe than its predecessors, which are largely subjective accounts of the ways of absolute power with only a secondary concern with empirical truth.
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Thursday 13 October 2011
Friday 14 October 2011
Saturday 21 October 2011
Neuenschwander: kaons page 146: 'When "asked" in a measurement what kind of kaon it is, the particle has the probability |a+|2 of answering "I'm a neutral kaon". Meanwhile, when it is not asked, the kaon moves merrily along in some mixture of these two eigenstates.' Is this to confuse probabilistic symmetry with reality? Maybe each species of kaon has a history which has left [it]
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in a define concrete state which has some probability |a+|2 but is in reality definitely one or the other, but because of the symmetry between the states we do not know which until we observe. The result of our observation is partially determined by the operators wo choose to make the observation. Neuenschwander
QUANTUM NUMBER = DISCRETE STATIONARY POINT
Liddel-Hart Wiki: 'The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.'
The extreme right conservative stance is a self fulfilling prophecy: treat people badly and they will react badly, providing an excuse to treat them worse. The opposite is also true, though there will always be a certain level of crime which must be detected as early as possible and closed down.
Noether's theorem deals with the continuous probabilities of discrete events and there is no (?) equivalent theorem for discrete events. Neuenschwander page 192.
What are the Mormons doing right? Paul Harris