vol VII: Notes
2012
Notes
[Sunday 9 December 2012 - Saturday 15 December 2012]
[Notebook: DB 74 CREATION]
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Sunday 9 December 2012
Feynman & Hibbs page 9: Uncertainty principle: Any determination of the alternative taken by a process capable of following more than one alternative destroys the interference between the alternatives. Feynman & Hibbs
Two slit experiment seems to be oldest and deepest conundrum. Let us interpret interference as communication as is the determination of the alternative. Once we have
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definite information the computation is halted and we get a message, ie a particle. An electron leaves the gun, a particle mapped onto spacetime but existing prior to space as a process that becomes constrained by the two slits into two processes whose phase differences guide where it is going to hit the screen. It hits the screen where the two processes have the same phase, ie halt simultaneously, since quantum mechanics is principally concerned with timing rather than spatial position. The frequency f the electron depends upon its energy / momentum. One process - two processes - one process. Path integral method supposes one process (path), infinite processes, one process.Position and velocity are both 'relative' quantities and we can only measure them with respect to some reference frame. If there is no reference body, they jave no observable reality, although something might be happening.
A wallaby in the garden is a large particle.
Electron is an algorithm, and two slits create two instances of the algorithm? Seen relative to space-time, the algorithm is pixellated (digitized) in units of ℏ.
The product of pixels in space / momentum energy / time cannot be smaller than ℏ.
Electron interacts with physical holes to change its momentum so it does not hit the screen straight in front of the hole as a bullet might do.
The invisibility theorem comes in here somewhere. A running process is invisible and can only be observed when it halts.
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Feynman & Hibbs page 14: 'When alternatives cannot possibly be resolved by experient [are invisible] they always interfere.'exclusive alternative (visible) vs interfering alternatives (invisible).
The large quantities of speculation in these notebooks are eventually boiled down into shorter articles which are ordered sets of words destined for publication, that is to become visible to the world, whereas these notes are in effect invisible computations leading to the visible conclusions.
Same with my invisible unconscious mind, which deals with a vast network of interfering alternatives, and my words, which are observed by me when they become conscious and to others when they are written or spoken.
Once space is established many things work by fit and tolerance (let us say in the macroscopic world) but various relationships are maintained by forces (symmetries) and fields (disturbances of the symmetry), local gauge symmetry which is disturbed according to various symmetries like conservation of action, energy, momentum, ie 1 dimension, two dimensions, three dimensions. Every point in space ([spectral] line) is 'split' by time marching on. Does time go past me? Me past time? We both go along together, but memory and modelling make us aware of past and future. Some physicists think past and future are symmetrical, but they are not, they are ordered: numerus motus secundum prius et posterius [Aristotle Physics 219b2] Aristotle
The Theology Company is on a mission from god.
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'It is impossible to do away with the law of suffering which is the one indisputable condition of our being. Progress is to be represented by the amount of suffering undergone. The purer the suffering, the greater is the progress.' Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi
An ancient misunderstanding of the role of pain and suffering in life. Specifically, pain and suffering are feedbacks that tell us that a system is being highly stressed.
What we see is that the basic quantum computations are simple logical functions and the complexity, as in conventional computers, comes from the sequencing, the timing and the interrupts that occur in the network. We can understands the observation of which hole the electron goes through as an interruption in the overall process which destroys coherence.
Monday 10 December 2012
We must accepts as a mystery how we (ie the Universe) got here in the first place and be content with trying to understand how it got to be the way it is now from a very simple start, Fixed point theorems will do this for us, and, like evolutionists, we are trying to trace the history of its furcations from the evidence that is available to us at the present time. In other words we take the dynamics for granted in a divine Universe and as scientists concentrate on the fixed points the things we can write down and build upon.
I awake tense as usual even though work is going well and
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funding is in place which makes me think that my real problem is theological and there is pressure in me to bring something theological to fruition, to be a productive tree. No matter how far I have goner, however, there does seem to be further to go, so whatever I produce will be a work in progress, a step on a journey rather than a perfect eternal product that my source, the Roman Catholic Church, claims to possess. What I need is some work of sufficient promise to attract the attention of at least one other person.
Stalin's notion of creating a new social structure was to annihilate all existing structure [civility] except the Communist Party, and the Chinese seem to be taking a similar approach. McGregor. McGregor
Although Marx derided religion as tyhe opium of the people, the history of the Cold War suggests that religious institutions were one of the few things that withstood the Communist onslaught and led to its downfall. We cannot deny that many of the most far seeing people in history have devoted their attention to religion and that it is still a very powerful force among us, particulary when we consider that the centre of gravity of religion is moving from the ancient Churches to the space of secular civility defined particularly by statements of human rights. The old religions, insofar as they were managed by elites connected to the ruling class, tended to play down human rights, so we find the Roman Catholic Church still a faith based absolute monarchy and [at least constitutionally] an anachronism in modern civil society.
Once we accept that the Universe id divine and that we are inside, rather than outside God, everything
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begins to fall into place.Bosons simplify by tending to one state. Fermions complexify by requiring one state each. State = memory = fixed point.
The people of the Bible lived between 5000 and 2000 years ago, and had a world and a world view very different from ours. Because of the importance of the Bible as the definitive document of much Western religion, its historical physical, political and psychological milieu has been studied in great detail. Much of this study has been driven by people who have the faith, and much of it by those who don't, those who trust their opinions not to faith but to observation.
To a modern observer, the religion of the Bible affected quite a small minority of all the people who have ever lived and this during a tiny slot in the overall history of humanity.
The Bible is the foundation of Christian theology. Up until the late Middle Ages, this theology served as the effective theory of everything that explained the environment and meaning of human life.
In the medieval period, theology was considered to be a science. Then the definition of science was changed about the time of Galileo. Before this time, science was considered to be almost purely deductive, starting from a set of 'obvious' principles and arguing to certain conclusions. [Example Aquinas' derivation of the properties of God from actus purus]. Galileo and his contemporaries saw that this did not guarantee certain knowledge. Another step is necessary, The conclusions of any hypothesis (set of principles)
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must be tested against reality. Traditional theology is about an infinite and invisible Gods, and since we cannot observe God, no testing is possible. Hence the need for faith. The Catholic Church has tried to make faith in its teachings reasonable by declaring itself infallible, but since it is hard to find evidence for this claim faith remains just that, faith,. Theology so conceived is not a science. Even the Pontifical Academy of Science does not list Theology among its disciplines.
The best product sells itself. The Jesus package answered all the questions troubling the ancient world and they bought it wholesale. We are seeking a similar product now.
Since the time of Galileo theology has not been a science because its subject God is generally held to be invisible. This is an old position. It was hard to tell whether any of the ancient Gods lived in the same world as ourselves, or some other wolds. The Christian tradition arose from the meeting of two otherworldly cultures, the Hebrews and the Ancient Greeks.
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Looking at myself in the mirror of my youthful theological environment (the feedback I got from my mentors) I was a misfit seeking a fit. Having faith in my own reality, I found their story false, and set out to improve it by taking a scientific approach, taking less heed of the books of the Bible and more of
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the book of Nature.
Slowly I am finding my place in my God, and because it seems to be a good place, I would like to propagate it, strengthening it for myself by sharing it with others who appear to suffer the pains of dislocation in the world of conventional falsity built up by the elites in my history, beginning perhaps with Moses and Plato and represented in the current world by the Pope.
Long view is critical view. We want certain knowledge.
We are becoming accustomed to the big lies that lie behind the Papacy, The Party and similar totalitarian organizations [so well fingered by Orwell]. Orwell
Motivation, potential, formalism. Totalitarians say believe or die. Scientists say look and live.
Each of us has a theology based on our experiences of life which include our interactions with everybody we meet, family, friends, school etc etc all leave their greater or lesser mark. One may learn as much from a gentle experience extended over a long period as a violent and very brief experience. F = ma, where F represents the potential, the form, and a the motion resulting,. In the massless regime there is no acceleration, a photon is born travelling at the speed of light.
The recent US presidential campaign demonstrates the need for an ethical epistemology, the drive to seek the truth and state it clearly instead of repeating known falshoods ad nauseam in the hope that some will stick.
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From a political point of view to establish an omniscient and omnipotent deity to be the mouthpiece for one's ideas is a very powerful idea. Who can resist of the religious power says 'God says kill her!'. In ancient times, however, this political advantage may bot have been the only reason for separating God and the world. Parmenides asked the question: how can we have certain knowledge of our moving world? Implicit in this question is the idea that motion is inconsistent with stillness, stability and certitude.
The imagines writing often seems so much better than the realized project. It takes work (ie moving things against potentials) to sculpt good text.
I am a servant of God insofar as it is God (my total environment) that I have to please if I am to survive.
Nearer my God to thee. Nearer, My God, to Thee - Wikipedia
The lay citizen has the luxury of believing in the truth. A lawyer has to be content with the demonstrable. Le Carre, Manager, page 649. le Carre
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Applebaum page 245: 'If reality was not conforming to ideology, then it must be forced to do so.' Reality-based community - Wikipedia, Applebaum
The big lie, stretching from horizon to horizon, is very hard to see and unseat.
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The Communist Party militant sounds very much like the Church militant, surrounded by enemies created by its own unreality.
Went to sleep thinking of something to be written down in the morning, but now it is hiding in my mental rainforest. Here it is. One of the first scientific triumphs was t identify the invariant elements in human language (phonemes) and map them onto physical symbols, ie the invention of poetic writing. This was paralleled by the invention of ideographic writing which identified symbols with things and ideas themselves, rather than with elements of the spoken representation of things and ideas. Even deeper, we might say, was the development of ideas and speech to represent our experience of ourselves and our world. Parmenides came at the end of a very long period of development of human representation of reality in thought, language and writing.
It seems quite likely that the explicit development of Communist ideology depended heavily on the long social experience of Christian ideology, that is an explicit boy of knowledge about what we are, where we came from and where we are going. The Communists differed from the Christians in detail, but the purpose of the overall programmes is pretty much the same. Communism failed because its deviation from reality, both in content and methodology is too great whereas the ancient religions have a far older and more organic relationship with humanity and their denials of reality are subtler, much older and less directly contradictory of the experiences of day to day life. Specifically, the Church (in recent times) does much good and little harm whereas Communist regimes are notable for widespread harm and negligible good.
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Applebaum page 292: 'In the long run, the [show] trials planted doubt about the reliability and even the sanity of the communist leadership., though these were not necessarily expressed at the time.Alexander Zinoviev Homo Sovieticus Zinoviev
Aufbau der Republik Max Linger
The life of Homo Sovieticus was filled with improving activity rather like the day of a monk.
Applebaum page 466: Vaclav Havel 1978 'The Power of the Powerless' The Power of the Powerless - Wikipedia, Vaclav Havel
'independent life of society', 'civil society'.
Applebaum page 471: Hoover Institution Archives Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University
Thursday 13 December 2012
Friday 14 December 2012
Pigouvian carbon tax New Yorker 10 December 2012 page 29. Pigovian tax - Wikipedia
Tombstone Yang Jisheng Jisheng
Mao, The Real Story Pantsov & Levine Pantsov
When I am near you my heart melts.
Folding@home Folding@home
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Why is the Universe quantized written before the days of fixed points (?). The quantum is a fundamental fixed point, like the velocity of light. Photon carries one quantum of spin and E = hf, ie e quanta per second of phase change, 1 quantum of phase = 2π, which we equate to one logical operation, given the equation logical operation = computation = {logical operation} = 1 collapse of wave function = execution of 1 eigenfunction = one step of logical continuity.
We are thinking that the Universe has a continuous underlay but perhaps it is digital right down to the initial singularity, the initial empty set, which looks empty because of the invisibility theorem.
Sometimes this stuff looks like a work of genius, sometimes it is just a castle in the air, a mote in the sunlight. Have to just keep going until I get it down [(up)].
Intelligent = creative = forming stationary points, ie forming forms.
What stationary points has general relativity got? Initial singularity, velocity of light.
Quantum = fixed point. Quantum of action = action between fixed points [a unit of indeterminate (unmeasurable) size, but nevertheless determinate].
Saturday 15 December 2012
Back to logical continuity. As the ancients already
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knew. the heart of mathematics is proof. Historically, much of mathematics has been a dialogue between arithmetic and geometry. Newton used geometrical language to explain his system of the world, but we know that he also used the arithmetic techniques of calculus to get results from his geometric intuitions.
Pythagoras' theorem provides the ancient link between the numbers of arithmetic and the continua of geometry, and it has long been known that there are points in the geometric line that do not correspond to any natural or rational number.
Some ideas which I have not heard elsewhere.
1. Logical continuity
2. Eigenfunctions are computable
2. Quantization is a consequence of communication theory.
4. Measurements are mutual, represented by complex conjugates.
5. Velocity of light may have any value whatever.
6. Halted computation corresponds to a quantum of action.
7. Particle is a message, a fixed point 'outside' time.
8. 'Collapse of wavefunction' = insight.
9. Universe divine
10. Transfinite network.
11. Quantum Trinity / transfinity.
12. Initial singularity is basic hardware layer [and = classical god].
13. Velocity of light related to coding delay.
14. Spooky action at a distance suggests information free communication.
15. Local gauge invariance suggests a communication network.
16. Cyclic nature of computation related to complex function in q.m.
17. Stable structure of the Universe consequence of fixed point theorems
18. Creation is the emergence of new fixed points in pure act.
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18. Cantor force drives complexification.
19. Invisibility (unresolvability) theorem.
20. Uncertainty arises from interruption by spacelike separated machines.
21. The past is halted computation.
22. Continuum carries no information
When things begin to go too well one tends tp become too excited to write, or at least to find progressing in an orderly manner difficult. The beauty of the notebook is that it is fragmented, a lot of little shotgun sequences like this that need either to fit into some more coherent narrative, or remain as (complex) symbols composed with the intent of documenting a mental state.
Mathematics is the formal theory of everything. What we learn from quantum mechanics is how to apply it.
As I get older I get (hopefully) deeper insight into the misunderstandings of reality that I absorbed from the human milieu of my childhood. The basic error, I think, is to conceive the world, the flesh and the devil (error) as somehow deficient and beneath our dignity, we who are destined for the perfect spiritual life of heaven.
[“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”] A Philip Randolph A. Philip Randolph - Wikipedia
