vol VII: Notes

2013

Notes

[Sunday 20 January 2013 - Saturday 26 January 2013]

[Notebook: DB 74 CREATION]

Sunday 20 January 2013

Monday 21 January 2013

Tuesday 22 January 2013

[page 79]

Wednesday 23 January 2013

The Crank's Bible Nadine Abensur Abensur

Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies Good Religion. Mantel

Earthworks, Christine Nicholls. Flinders University 9780980520873

Sexism, racism, religionism

Thursday 24 January 2013

Friday 25 January 2013

Saturday 26 January 2013

Still in a still spot, savouring the idea that the world of messages is the set of fixed points in the divine dynamics.

Alexander: Proof of Heaven Alexander

www.eternea.org [eternal life for everyone?]

[page 80]

Conway, Free Will Theorem, Foundations of Physics 36 (10) 1441-73 Conway

Conway, The Strong Free Will Theorem Notices AMS 2 2009 226-232 John H. Conway and Simon Kochen

Network structure can only come into existence with error free communication, which can itself only come to be with fixed points, ie error free communication, which implies the existence of fixed points to act as memory to enable asynchronous communication. [creating structure 'despite' asynchrony made possible by memory, ie sets of stationary points]

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Further reading

Books

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Abensur, Nadine, The Cranks Bible: A Timeless Collection of Vegetarian Recipes, Cassell 2002 'Nadine Abensur was born in Morocco. She is one of the UK's top vegetarian chefs, with French-Jewish parents and draws on this heritage of culinary richness for creating recipes. She began her career by working in restaurants around the world, then set up her own vegetarian catering company. Nadine is the author of CRANKS LIGHT, THE NEW CRANKS RECIPE BOOK and CRANKS FAST FOOD.'  Amazon   back

Alexander, Eben, Proof of heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, Simon & Schuster 2012 'Eben Alexander, M.D., has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last twenty-five years, including fifteen years at the Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Visit him at LifeBeyondDeath.net.'  Amazon   back

Casti, John L, Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics - and Why They Matter, John Wiley and Sons 1996 Preface: '[this book] is intended to tell the general reader about mathematics by showcasing five of the finest achievements of the mathematician's art in this [20th] century.' p ix. Treats the Minimax theorem (game theory), the Brouwer Fixed-Point theorem (topology), Morse's theorem (singularity theory), the Halting theorem (theory of computation) and the Simplex method (optimisation theory).  Amazon   back

Cleary, Thomas, The Flower Ornament Scripture: a Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Shambala Publications 1993 Jacket: "'As to the Avatamsaka Sutra, it is really the consummation of Buddhist thought, Buddhist sentiment and Buddhist experience. To my mind no religious literature in the world can ever approach the grandeur of conception, the depth of feeling and the gigantic scale of composition as attained by this sutra.' D T Suzuki. Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. This one-volume edition constains Thomas Cleary's definitive translation of all thirty-nine books of the sutra, along with an introduction, a gloassary, and Cleary's translation of Li Tongxuan's seventh-century guide to the final book, the Gandavyuha, 'Entry into the Realm of Reality'"  Amazon   back

Davis, Martin, Computability and Unsolvability, Dover 1982 Preface: 'This book is an introduction to the theory of computability and non-computability ususally referred to as the theory of recursive functions. The subject is concerned with the existence of purely mechanical procedures for solving problems. . . . The existence of absolutely unsolvable problems and the Goedel incompleteness theorem are among the results in the theory of computability that have philosophical significance.'  Amazon   back

Mantel, Hilary, Bring Up the Bodies, Henry Holt and Co 2012 'Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?'  Amazon   back

Misner, Charles W, and Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman 1973 Jacket: 'Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation to the universe. John Archibald Wheeler. . . . this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity. . . . '  Amazon   back

Nicholls, Christine, Earthworks: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Ceramic Art, 2012   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

Papers

Conway, John, Simon Kochen, "The Free Will Theorem", Foundations of Physics, 36, 10, October 2006, page 1441-1473. 'Abstract On the basis of three physical axioms, we prove that if the choice of a particular type of spin 1 experiment is not a function of the information accessible to the experimenters, then its outcome is equally not a function of the information accessible to the particles. We show that this result is robust, and deduce that neither hidden variable theories nor mechanisms of the GRW type for wave function collapse can be made relativistic and causal. We also establish the consistency of our axioms and discuss the philosophical implications.'. back

Links

John H. Conway and Simon Kochen The Strong Free Will Theorem 'The two theories that revolutionized physics in the twentieth century, relativity and quantum mechanics, are full of predictions that defy common sense. Recently, we used three such paradoxical ideas to prove “The Free Will Theorem” (strengthened here), which is the culmination of a series of theorems about quantum mechanics that began in the 1960s. It asserts, roughly, that if indeed we humans have free will, then elementary particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity. More precisely, if the experimenter can freely choose the directions in which to orient his apparatus in a certain measurement, then the particle’s response (to be pedantic—the universe’s response near the particle) is not determined by the entire previous history of the universe.' back