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vol VII: Notes

2015

Notes

[Sunday 22 March 2015 - Saturday 28 March 2015]

[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]

Sunday 22 March 2015

[page 113]

Monday 23 March 2015

Aristotle and Thomas conceptualize the world in terms of potential and act. The modern version of these terms is entropy and information, Entropy measures the potential or possibility and information, numerically equal to the entropy, measures the actuality. Entropy corresponds to the moving elements of the dynamics [while the coin is spinning], information to the fixed points of the dynamics [when the coin has landed].

Tuesday 24 March 2015

Promotion = narcissism. I love myself so you should love me. This is how to become a celebrity = showoff.

Sexy narcissism, the most powerful marketing tool? Works on me although it is not selling me anything I want. However, I am now tending toward no holds barred (in the bounds of

[page 114]

free and respectful speech) to propagate the salvific message. Visible salvation. . . . . An Essay on Visible Salvation (1999)

Mating is the archetypal process of sexual reproduction, introducing randomness through well separated [less correlated] genotypes.

There was a time in my youth when I first began to have erections that I liked to admire myself in the big hall mirror when everyone was out, although I knew it was a sin.

Wednesday 25 March 2015

Insofar as the world is deterministic and predictable it can be known and engineered. This is the route to true salvation. The conservatives want to stick to the old system where they were the wealthy and powerful because it siphons more money and power to them. MONEY ≡ POWER (by definition?). Power and money are the measures of value, that is measures of influence over others.

My idea is to promote al this but to remain mainly anonymous, living behind the corporate veil. In a few years when the theory is complete and we move to the corporate phase selling the product and then t the political phase, convincing the majority to have faith lin our product.

Politicians are all over the place because they have failed to orthogonalize their personalities and their public powers.

Theology finds ideas at the the top of the web of knowledge, physics at the bottom.

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What is my principal task next? Cleaning? Reading? Writing . . . ?

One might say the action best suited to achieving my various goals, clean house, power, wealth etc, naturally to be used for the god, ie promoting the study of scientific theology, ie the scientific study of theology.

The ethical and marketing question is is my product better than theirs? If this is yes in all relevant dimensions, eg price, environment impact etc, then go ahead. The Theology Company is set up to market the intellectual property embedded in the towards natural religion project.

An act is a symmetry break. The Universe is pure act meaning every symmetry broken so world is completely concrete but in a dynamic world the symmetries are stil there governing the symmetry breaking at a statistical level.

Thursday 26 March 2015

They key to salvation is that God is reliable, unlike our rather fickle and self serving politicians [who are nevertheless part of God!]

The existence of poverty is almost automatic when people are competing for a limited resource, which is just wages income for the workers in a 'pure capitalist' society. To prevent this we need some redistribution since it increases the spending power of the poor to the benefit of the businesses they are buying from. Back to the Hilbert Oscillator. An essay on the divinity of money

Money buys (other people's) time.

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What's stopping me now? The whole thing is work of imagination, of course, and although I find it fits here and there, there are plenty of open questions which I have to deal with as I slowly prepare the product for market. The first person I have got to convince is myself, and highlights on the way like transfinite numbers and fixed point theory have led me on. So I have to set up a physical datum which has taken a long time partly because I find modern physics hard to understand. I have introduced the network model for my own use and now find it is a good fit to quantum mechanics [via communication theory].

The numerical entropy in the Boltzmann calculation is 1, the cardinal of the set of permutations of 0 identifiable particles. But log (n) = n - 1, so the logarithmic scale makes entropy additive rather than multiplicative. This relationship between the first two transfinite numbers is the paradigm for the [pairwise] relationship between all the other transfinite cardinals in the Cantor universe.

Let Universal Turing machines live in the Cantor universe.

Working on appendix to Letters to Francis.

Friday 27 March 2015

Marketing: exhibit the product / the personality behind it. The first has to be real. The second may be the work of spin doctors. So how do I propagate my views. The answer keeps coming back: through academia, the trusted interface.

The answer to Jihad is real religion, based on science.

[page 117]

Saturday 28 March 2015

Is the Pope infallible if he makes a blunder like this? Christopher Knaus Christopher Knaus: Magistrate condemns 'pernicious evil' of domestic violence while sentencing drunk wife-basher

Theology is the study of history at the largest scale in space and time It begins at the beginning and tells us about the end.

CercignaniBoltzmann's statistical mechanics is based on the meaningful ordering of N molecules to give O(N!) states. Botzmann's prblem (or one of them) was to devise a suitable coordinate system ([identification and] binning) to count the states. Cercignani Cercignani: Ludwig Boltzmann, Big O notation - Wikipedia

Penrose in Cercignani page Viii: '. . . it was another of Boltzmann's fundamental conclusions to give precision to the very notion of entropy, by identifying it with a specific multiple of the volume in hase space defined by the macroscopic parameters specifying the state of the system. Accordingly, Boltzmann showed how the second law could become amenable to precise mathematical treatment.

Wrestling Einstein's mollusc.

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Cercignani, Carlo, Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms, Oxford University Press, USA 2006 'Cercignani provides a stimulating biography of a great scientist. Boltzmann's greatness is difficult to state, but the fact that the author is still actively engaged in research into some of the finer, as yet unresolved issues provoked by Boltzmann's work is a measure of just how far ahead of his time Boltzmann was. It is also tragic to read of Boltzmann's persecution by his contemporaries, the energeticists, who regarded atoms as a convenient hypothesis, but not as having a definite existence. Boltzmann felt that atoms were real and this motivated much of his research. How Boltzmann would have laughed if he could have seen present-day scanning tunnelling microscopy images, which resolve the atomic structure at surfaces! If only all scientists would learn from Boltzmann's life story that it is bad for science to persecute someone whose views you do not share but cannot disprove. One surprising fact I learned from this book was how research into thermodynamics and statistical mechanics led to the beginnings of quantum theory (such as Planck's distribution law, and Einstein's theory of specific heat). Lecture notes by Boltzmann also seem to have influenced Einstein's construction of special relativity. Cercignani's familiarity with Boltzmann's work at the research level will probably set this above other biographies of Boltzmann for a very long time to come.' Dr David J Bottomley  
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Descartes, Rene, and John Cottingham (editor), Bernard Wiliams (Introduction), Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies, Cambridge University Press 1996 Amazon Product Description 'This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It is based on the best available texts and presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable modern English.' 
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Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, W W Norton and Co 1997 'Diamond's book is complex and a bit overwhelming. But the thesis he methodically puts forth--examining the "positive feedback loop" of farming, then domestication, then population density, then innovation, and on and on--makes sense. Written without favor, Guns, Germs, and Steel is good global history.' Amazon.com 
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Streater, Raymond F, and Arthur S Wightman, PCT, Spin, Statistics and All That, Princeton University Press 2005 Amazon product description: ' PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That is the classic summary of and introduction to the achievements of Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory. This theory gives precise mathematical responses to questions like: What is a quantized field? What are the physically indispensable attributes of a quantized field? Furthermore, Axiomatic Field Theory shows that a number of physically important predictions of quantum field theory are mathematical consequences of the axioms. Here Raymond Streater and Arthur Wightman treat only results that can be rigorously proved, and these are presented in an elegant style that makes them available to a broad range of physics and theoretical mathematics.' 
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Links
Big O notation - Wikipedia, Big O notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopdia, 'In mathematics, big O notation describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity, usually in terms of simpler functions. It is a member of a larger family of notations that is called Landau notation, Bachmann–Landau notation (after Edmund Landau and Paul Bachmann), or asymptotic notation.' back
Christopher Knaus, Magistrate condemns 'pernicious evil' of domestic violence while sentencing drunk wife-basher, '"That is, to classify the root cause of the defendant's aberrant behaviour towards the victim as being because of alcohol or drug misuse, or because of an issue with anger management, is simply wrong," she said. "He may in fact have those problems, but family violence is a pernicious evil – unfortunately prevalent in our society – that stems directly from the perpetrator's attitude to women, and from his attempt and desire to exert power and control over his partner.' back
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