vol VII: Notes

2012

Notes

[Sunday 22 April 2012 - Saturday 28 April 2012]

[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]

Sunday 22 April 2012

Monday 23 April 2012

Tuesday 24 April 2012

[page 141]

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Possibility is real, and the possibilities exist as elements of a superposition, possible fixed points, ie halting points, endpoints in a dynamic process.

[page 142]

A church is primarily a social organization, based around a theological foundation, the incarnation of an idea of fitness and survival around which a community is based.

There are no final solutions in a permanent dynamic system. [?]

Brown: a well crafted yarn based on a conspiracy theory. The revelation that Magdalene was Jesus wife is consistent with the idea that both are divine. Brown: The Da Vinci Code

Thursday 26 April 2012

Tendency to evil = tendency of complex organizations to break down.

Near misses are signs of trouble brewing and should not be covered up but exposed and understood.

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Safe building must pas through a a series of fixed points where the job can be left and come back later. [See also Turing Alan Turing

Friday 27 April 2012

Ultimately the success of the project depends upon attracting other people to think and talk about this. How do we do this? On the theory of terrorism.

Reform and opening up in China. Richburg. Keith B Richburg

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Saturday 28 April 2012

Steadily working my way through the jobs that stand between me and changing my day job to writing. It seems to me to be a good move (but I still need the exercise!) not least because there seems to be nothing else to do. And my hope ios that I will be able to earn a bit by writing. My internet Bill is about $90 per month, and income from Google about $2.

Although some income would be nice, the principal task for the next two years is to document the message, to reveal in detail that God is no mystery but id right there in plain sight, the source of all our experiences. But we are nevertheless free. We are the source

The basic task is moving people in my direction without the use of an army or any violence -- we must go for pure attraction which means solving the maximum problem, the relationship of good and evil. Problem of evil = Wikipedia

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Further reading

Books

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Aristotle, and P H Wickstead and F M Cornford, translators, Physics books V-VIII, Harvard University Press,William Heinemann 1980 Introduction: 'Simplicius tells us that Books I - IV of the Physics were referred to as the books Concerning the Principles, while Books V - VIII were called On Movement. The earlier books have, in fact, defined the things which are subject to movement (the contents of the physical world) and analyzed certain concepts - Time, Place and so forth - which are involved in the occurrence of movement.' Book V is a further introduction to the detailed analysis in Books VI - VIII. Book VI deals with continuity, Book VII is an introductory study for Book VIII, which brings us to the conclusion that all change and motion in the unvierse are ultimately caused by a Prime Mover which is itself unchanging and unmoved and which has neither magnitude nor parts, but is spiritual and not in space.'  Amazon   back

Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday 2003 From Publishers Weekly: 'Brown's latest thriller . . . is an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance. The action kicks off in modern-day Paris with the murder of the Louvre's chief curator, whose body is found laid out in symbolic repose at the foot of the Mona Lisa. Seizing control of the case are Sophie Neveu, a lovely French police cryptologist, and Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon, reprising his role from Brown's last book. The two find several puzzling codes at the murder scene, all of which form a treasure map to the fabled Holy Grail. As their search moves from France to England, Neveu and Langdon are confounded by two mysterious groups-the legendary Priory of Sion, a nearly 1,000-year-old secret society whose members have included Botticelli and Isaac Newton, and the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. Both have their own reasons for wanting to ensure that the Grail isn't found. Brown sometimes ladles out too much religious history at the expense of pacing, and Langdon is a hero in desperate need of more chutzpah. Still, Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts.'  Amazon   back

Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions and the quest for the ultimate theory, W W Norton and Company 1999 Jacket: 'Brian Greene has come forth with a beautifully crafted account of string theory - a theory that appears to be a most promising way station to an ultimate theory of everything. His book gives a clear, simple, yet masterful account that makes a complex theory very accessible to nonscientists but is also a delightful read for the professional.' David M Lee  Amazon   back

Hobson, M P, and G. P. Efstathiou, A. N. Lasenby, General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists, Cambridge University Press 2006 Amazon Editorial Reviews Book Description 'After reviewing the basic concept of general relativity, this introduction discusses its mathematical background, including the necessary tools of tensor calculus and differential geometry. These tools are used to develop the topic of special relativity and to discuss electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime. Gravitation as spacetime curvature is introduced and the field equations of general relativity derived. After applying the theory to a wide range of physical situations, the book concludes with a brief discussion of classical field theory and the derivation of general relativity from a variational principle.'   Amazon   back

Klir, Jiri, and Miroslav Valach, Cybernetic Modelling, Iliffe, SNTL 1965, 1967 Preface: 'The principal purpose of this book is to show the part played by cybernetic modelling in the solution of problems common to the animate and inanimate world. The system, its behaviour and structure are used here as fundamental concepts forming the basis of a wide approach that utilizes the model as a methodological instrument. ...' J Klir and M Valach, Prague, 1965.back

Luke, and Alexander Jones (editor), in The Jerusalem Bible, Darton Longman and Todd 1966 'The third gospel's distinguishing quality is due to the attractive personality of its author, which shines through all his work. Luke is at once a most gifted writer and a man of marked sensibility. ... The originality of Luke is not in his key ideas (they are identical with those of Mark and Matthew) but in his religious mentality which, apart from slight traces of Paul's influence, is ovewhelmingly distinctive of Luke's personal temperament. Luke, in Dante's phrase, is the 'scriba mansuetudinis Christi', the faithful; recorder of Christ's lovingkindness.'   Amazon   back

Newton, Isaac, and Julia Budenz, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman (Translators), The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, University of California Press 1999 This completely new translation, the first in 270 years, is based on the third (1726) edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. ... The illuminating Guide to the Principia by I. Bernard Cohen, along with his and Anne Whitman's translation, will make this preeminent work truly accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.  Amazon   back

Soames, Mary (editor), Speaking for Themselves: The Persona Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, Doubleday 1998 Jacket: 'Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly during the fifty seven years of their life together. . . . Speaking for Themselves provides a rare insight into Winston Churchill's extraordinary career, the central role he played and the world figures he met in over half a century of turbulent history. Clementine's interest in politics was almost as intense as his, and her political instincts acute. Here, therefore, are Winston and Clementine's vividly expressed reactions to the social reforms of the Edwardian era, the agitation of the Suffragettes, the Abdication Crisis, the early disasters and then the long awaited victories of the Second World War and the electoral defeat of 1945. But here also are domestic minutiae, society gossip, financial anxieties and minor quarrels,. nicknames, private jokes and endearments. . . . '  Amazon   back

Soames, Mary (editor), Speaking for Themselves: The Persona Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, Doubleday 1998 Jacket: 'Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly during the fifty seven years of their life together. . . . Speaking for Themselves provides a rare insight into Winston Churchill's extraordinary career, the central role he played and the world figures he met in over half a century of turbulent history. Clementine's interest in politics was almost as intense as his, and her political instincts acute. Here, therefore, are Winston and Clementine's vividly expressed reactions to the social reforms of the Edwardian era, the agitation of the Suffragettes, the Abdication Crisis, the early disasters and then the long awaited victories of the Second World War and the electoral defeat of 1945. But here also are domestic minutiae, society gossip, financial anxieties and minor quarrels,. nicknames, private jokes and endearments. . . . '  Amazon   back

Veltman, Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...'  Amazon   back

Links

Alan Turing On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem 'The "computable" numbers may be described briefly as the real numbers whose expressions as a decimal are calculable by some finite means. Although the subject of this paper is ostensibly the computable numbers, it is almost equally easy to define and investigate computable functions of an integral variable of a real or computable variable, computable predicates and so forth. . . . ' back

Keith B Richburg China clamping down on Mideast-style protests 'Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, February 23, 2011; 11:25 PM BEIJING - A previously unknown group has called on the Chinese to replicate the popular protests in the Middle East by staging their own peaceful "jasmine rallies" in cities across China every Sunday afternoon, to demand an end to corruption, greater accountability and an independent judiciary. THIS STORY Experts say Gaddafi relying on paramilitary forces, foreign mercenaries to crush protests In eastern Libya, town keeps shaky hold after fighting off forces loyal to Gaddafi Obama condemns Gaddafi's crackdown, sends Clinton for talks on Libya View All Items in This Story The appeal comes as China's Communist rulers have displayed signs of being alternately alert and nervous about any replica of the popular unrest that began last month in Tunisia, convulsing much of the Middle East and North Africa and threatening to topple long-standing authoritarian regimes. ' back

New Yorker he New Yorker Timeline: '1925 Harold Ross launches The New Yorker on February 21st, with financial backing from Raoul Fleischmann, the founder of the General Baking Company. Dorothy Parker, Ralph Barton, Alexander Woollcott, Ring Lardner, and Robert Benchley are among the early contributors. Rea Irvin draws the first cover—a mythical, monocled Regency dandy, later dubbed Eustace Tilley, who becomes the face of the magazine. Katharine S. Angell (later Katharine S. White) joins the staff as the magazine’s first fiction editor. ' back

Problem of evil = Wikipedia Problem of evil = Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'In the philosophy of religion, the problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil with that of a deity who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent (see theism).[1][2] An argument from evil attempts to show that the co-existence of evil and such a deity is unlikely or impossible, and attempts to show the contrary have been traditionally known as theodicies.' back