vol VII: Notes

2014

Notes

[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]

[Sunday 2 November 2014 - Saturday 8 November 2014]

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Sunday 2 November 2014

Mum is very concerned that she is responsible for me entering the Order of preachers and feels guilty because this blighted my life. Is this so? I don't think so. It as indeed unfortunate that I grew up in the milieu of falsehood characteristic of the Church, but insofar as this was (and remains) a culture thousands of years old, nobody in my vicinity could have been expected to know any different, and it is only by having entered the Order and being exposed to an in depth appreciation of the Catholic fiction that I have been able to learn how false it is and begin the long task of building a scientific theology to replace it. It may have been a hard road, but it seems that it was the only possible one for me. Did it damage me? Perhaps the biggest and most painful damage was a consequence of the [single] sex education and general catholic deprecation of wealth, sexuality and self determination. These evils must be fought, and the tide is turning against them, but an intimate knowlege

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of evil is a god start toward its correction.

Monday 3 November 2014

All the information in quantum mechanics is carried by phase since the amplitude of all vectors is normalized to 1. We assume that the probability of any event is 1 when the phases of the interfering waves are the same, ie in phase, and 0 when they are out of phase, This phase measure is a continuous representation of the probabilities of quantum computation processes being such that one can follow the other in order. The actual processes have discrete moments of completion and in a single practical computer with a single clock all the processes can be deterministically ordered. Such is not necessarily the case for computers in a network which may be asynchronous, depending on their starting times and the lengths of each process.

Tuesday 4 November 2014

le Carre: A delicate Truth le Carre

One may say that Catholic dogma is the greatest falsehood ever told by measuring it against the integrated political power that the fiction of life after death has delivered to its promoters over the last 2000 years x about 20% of the population of the world. Write this to the Archbp with copies of the letters to Francis.

Wednesday 5 November 2014

Thursday 6 November 2014

Friday 7 November 2014

Saturday 8 November 2014

The gamma matrices are a basis [like the Pauli matrices].

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Further reading

Books

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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

Heisenberg, Werner , Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (translated by Carl Eckart and Frank C Hoyt), Dover 1949 Jacket: 'In this classic, based on lectures delivered at the University of Chicago, Heisenberg presents a complete physical picture of quantum theory. He covers not only his own contributions, but also those of Bohr, Dirac, Bose, de Broglie, Fermi, Einstein, Pauli, Schroedinger, Sommerfeld, Rupp, Wilson, Germer and others in a text written for the physical scientist who is not a specialist in quantum theory or in modern mathematics.'  Amazon   back

le Carre, John, A Delicate Truth, Penguin Books 2014 'A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer.. . . Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be—or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher “Kit” Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kit’s daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, how can he keep silent?'  Amazon   back

Rushdie, Salman, The Satanic Verses, Viking 1989 Amazon editorial review From Publishers Weekly 'Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale. Two actors from India, "prancing" Gibreel Farishta and "buttony, pursed" Saladin Chamcha, are flying across the English Channel when the first of many implausible events occurs: the jet explodes. As the two men plummet to the earth, "like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar," they argue, sing and are transformed. When they are found on an English beach, the only survivors of the blast, Gibreel has sprouted a halo while Saladin has developed hooves, hairy legs and the beginnings of what seem like horns. What follows is a series of allegorical tales that challenges assumptions about both human and divine nature. Rushdie's fanciful language is as concentrated and overwhelming as a paisley pattern. Angels are demonic and demons are angelic as we are propelled through one illuminating episode after another. The narrative is somewhat burdened by self-consciousness that borders on preciosity, but for Rushdie fans this is a splendid feast.'   Amazon   back

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