vol VII: Notes

2016

Notes

Sunday 8 May 2016 - Saturday 14 May 2016

[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]

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Sunday 8 May 2016

Do right wing newspapers [eg The Australian, The Telegraph] emphasize the downside of everything? Is this useful negative feedback, or an unnecessarily depressing take on the nature of the world that we inherited from the Fall and the conviction that we are all sinners and that the rest of the world is damaged?

Finishing the house and finishing the book are both a matter of boring work which I am trying to avoid by casting myself as a busy grandparent.

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The creative force (Cantor force) puts a positive spin on the second law that entropy always increases by explaining the formal root of entropy increase and the value of the structures thereby created. Entropy cannot increase without ordered structure and we understand ordered structure dynamically by the creation and annihilation of network connections, and the power of discovering new connections which increase the size of the network.

Describing the scientific world, we must not forget the emotional side, the pleasure of breaking through cognitive dissonance to a satisfactory understanding of the truth. Many people are required by their roles to say things that they do not believe. The most obvious class subject to this pressure are party politicians who must toe the most absurd and even actively evil party lines which an intelligent person could believe unless their livelihood depended upon it. False public dialogue is the foundation of state failure, as we see in the US where people seem to believe all sorts of rubbish. Honesty is its own reward because it greatly simplifies the modelling task. Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia

Behavioural economics. We are predisposed to shiny things. This has led to rapid development in new shinier surfaces.

The standard model of the big bang appears to envisage the creation of vast numbers of fundamental particles as a sort of dust of unrelated entities, each existing in space independently of the others. How does this fit with out Cantorian notion that it requires order to create large numbers and the source of order is the relationship of particles to one another

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like the Trinity. This idea opens a whole new can of worms, the addressing and independent reality of particles (eg photons) in space.

Wrestling - tension, pressure
Boxing - momentum - [spatial] energy

One would like this book to have the energy of a Prince concert. Prince

Expertise - more aware of the nuances of the operation, subtle failures and useful shortcuts.

Monday 9 May 2016

Every few days I am greeted by a new insight that I didn't see coming which puts things in a new perspective or enhances an old one. Yesterday I visited the 'symmetry with respect to complexity' slogan and it became clearer to me the basic symmetry is the establishment of a communication link and that this link is a relationship (as in the Trinity) which creates two persons (sources) where before there was one: the act of creation is the fundamental symmetry of the world. And this is one of the above. It has gone a lot further than what I was writing in 'scientific theology' about symmetry and knowledge. George Joyce: The Blesed Trinity (Catholic Encyclopedia)

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What is the environmental cost of spin in terms of glossy paper, coloured ink and the organization of photo-ops (fuel etc)?

What is the environmental cost of spin in terms of glossy paper, coloured ink and the organization of photo-ops (fuels etc)

Connect - communicate - disconnect [described in quantum mechanics by the Feynman path integral. Feynman & Hibbs: Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals

The truth will make you free — the foundation of the world is the computable processes in the network and we must make certain they are not interrupted by the non-computable because it suits some people to propagate lies for their own gain: spin= to add credibility to falsehood. Ambrose Bierce: Politics

Human communication is the symmetry that underlies the human world and the human world is defined in each locality by the local protocols of communication, guns and bombs or caring with love = honest communication = bonum honestum = good business [this symmetry is expressed by bills of rights]. Aquinas 30: Summa: Is goodness divided into the virtuous [honestum] the useful [utile] and the pleasant [delectabile]?

Scientific theology: an expose of the damage being done to us by spin and an essay on the scientific alternative, beginning with one of the greatest spins of all, the Catholic Church's fictitious 'history of salvation'. Salvation History - Wikipedia

Gödel opens the possibility of divine humour contrary to those old grumps who hold that God know the punchline of every joke in advance and so cannot joke. But what if the punchlines are in the realm of incompleteness and incomputability?

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Tuesday 10 May 2016

Unlimited hope: I see the day when my direction will begin to dominate. It already does in the practical world of physical products, we just have to translate it to the noetic world so people can discern fact from fantasy. It is hard to do this alone but once we are through the tunnek to the light my unquenchable optimism wil be vindicated. We arelooking at the long term however, and I will not be surprised of I die poor.

Solidarity Solidarity - Wikipedia

st07_human_network. Human symmetry maximizes the entropy of the human race by giving us all equal opportunity. As long as we obey the protocol of right.

We understand the cosmic network because our minds are also networks, and many aspects of the cosmic network (atoms, molecules, cells) are used by our brains to make ur mind. Mind is the user of the network.

When I was a small child, long before I knew about sexuality, I knew that sensuality was a sin. All I wanted to do was touch myself and my friends, but I knew that every touch carried a promise of hell. Supererogation did not save me. By the time I left the Dominicans I was touching myself and some of the brethren, despite my solemn vows which added another dimension to sins already mortal. In the intellectual realm I was flirting with the deepest heresy,

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bordering on the sin against the Holy Ghosr, rejecting the Christian God totally. Bad years followed but now fifty years later I see that it was all good and I am proud of myself for not succumbing to the pressure to believe the greatest lies ever told.

God the narcissist in the Little Catechism: Q. Why did God make me? A. To know him, to love him and serve him here on Earth and to enjoy an eternity of bliss with him in Heaven. Baltimore Catechism

Wednesday 11 May 2016

The picture is coming clear. We build networks out of events. Gravitation sees only events. More complex forces see sets of events. The fundamental event, connect - communicate - disconnect can be modelled by the Feynman path integral and computer network. At last a bit of progress on Dev/Phys/10BosonFermion. It is good to get a bit of grip after a period of spinning the wheels.

A tentative map between logic and physics. 'Not' takes us from act to energy. And does quantum mechanics. 'Nand' gives us boson / fermion, structure, communication.

Peter Kropotkin: Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution. Seen in multicellular organisms, where cell = {cell}, ie {human}. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Wikipedia

Every message is addressed by the combined addresses of its sources.

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phys01 God
phys02 Fixed points
phys03 Action
phys04 Energy
phys05 Gravitation
phys06 Symmetry
phys07 Quantum Mechanics
phys08 Why is the world quantized?
phys09 Entanglement
phys10 Boson - Fermion
phys11 Space-time
phys12 Quantum field theory
phys13 Fundamental interaction of the network

Thursday 12 May 2016

Friday 13 May 2016

Saturday 14 May 2016

Trade = communication protocol - profession - interface with reality - interface simpliciter.

Arrive Melbourne

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Further reading

Books

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Feynman, Richard P, and Albert P Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, McGraw Hill 1965 Preface: 'The fundamental physical and mathematical concepts which underlie the path integral approach were first developed by R P Feynman in the course of his graduate studies at Princeton, ... . These early inquiries were involved with the problem of the infinte self-energy of the electron. In working on that problem, a "least action" principle was discovered [which] could deal succesfully with the infinity arising in the application of classical electrodynamics.' As described in this book. Feynam, inspired by Dirac, went on the develop this insight into a fruitful source of solutions to many quantum mechanical problems.   Amazon   back

Funder, Anna, Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, Granta Books 2003 Editorial Review: Publishers Weekly "Its job was to know everything about everyone, using any means it chose. It knew who your visitors were, it knew whom you telephoned, and it knew if your wife slept around." This was the fearsome Stasi, the Ministry for State Security of the late and unlamented German Democratic Republic. Funder, an Australian writer, international lawyer and TV and radio producer, visiting Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, finds herself captivated by stories of people who resisted the Stasi-moving stories that she collects in her first book, which was shortlisted for two literary awards in Australia. For instance, Miriam Weber, a slight woman with a "surprisingly big nicotine-stained voice," was placed in solitary confinement at the age of 16 for printing and distributing protest leaflets; she was caught again during a dramatic nighttime attempt to go over the Wall. Filtered through Funder's own keen perspective, these dramatic tales highlight the courage that ordinary people can display in torturous circumstances." Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.  Amazon   back

Hodges, Andrew, Alan Turing: The Enigma, Burnett 1983 Author's note: '. . . modern papers often employ the usage turing machine. Sinking without a capital letter into the collective mathematical consciousness (as with the abelian group, or the riemannian manifold) is probably the best that science can offer in the way of canonisation.' (530)  Amazon   back

Mehra, Jagdish, The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Oxford University Press 1994 Amazon Customer Review: By David Keirsey 'There are two type of reviews of this book. Those who were interested in the man from a personal, non science perspective and those who know science, are interested and can read and understand Feynman's scientific work. Those who interested in the more entertaining books on Feynman, e.g., Gleick, and some of Feynman's own books should tread on this book lightly for it includes mathematical and scientific analysis you cannot get from the other books. On the other hand, Jagdish Medra does an excellent job in reciting some of the personal stuff between him and his father, which were crucial in forming both Feynman's personal and scientific personality. This is the only book you will get that. Mehra did not include some of the more interesting andecotes that are in Feynman's books, so it is not a complete biography despite its length and breath. If you are interested in some of Feynman's reasons for his ideas and the context of those ideas, then you must read this book. If you are not interested, for example, in Maupertuis, Lagrange, Hamilton ideas on minimum action -- you might have to skip large parts of the book because Mehra recounts Feynman's ideas in detail (including all his equations). . . . '  Amazon   back

Tanenbaum, Andrew S, Computer Networks, Prentice Hall International 1996 Preface: 'The key to designing a computer network was first enunciated by Julius Caesar: Divide and Conquer. The idea is to design a network as a sequence of layers, or abstract machines, each one based upon the previous one. . . . This book uses a model in which networks are divided into seven layers. The structure of the book follows the structure of the model to a considerable extent.'   Amazon   back

Weinberg, Steven, The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations, Cambridge University Press 1995 Jacket: 'After a brief historical outline, the book begins anew with the principles about which we are most certain, relativity and quantum mechanics, and then the properties of particles that follow from these principles. Quantum field theory then emerges from this as a natural consequence. The classic calculations of quantum electrodynamics are presented in a thoroughly modern way, showing the use of path integrals and dimensional regularization. The account of renormalization theory reflects the changes in our view of quantum field theory since the advent of effective field theories. The book's scope extends beyond quantum elelctrodynamics to elementary partricle physics and nuclear physics. It contains much original material, and is peppered with examples and insights drawn from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle research. Problems are included at the end of each chapter. '  Amazon   back

Papers

Landauer, Rolf, "Information is a physical entity", Physica A, 263, 1, 1 February 1999, page 63-7. 'This paper, associated with a broader conference talk on the fundamental physical limits of information handling, emphasizes the aspects still least appreciated. Information is not an abstract entity but exists only through a physical representation, thus tying it to all the restrictions and possibilities of our real physical universe. The mathematician's vision of an unlimited sequence of totally reliable operations is unlikely to be implementable in this real universe. Speculative remarks about the possible impact of that, on the ultimate nature of the laws of physics are included.'. back

Landauer, Rolf, "The Physical Nature of Information", Physica A, 217, 4-5, 15 July 1996, page 188-93. 'Information is inevitably tied to a physical representation and therefore to restrictions and possibilities related to the laws of physics and the parts available in the universe. Quantum mechanical superpositions of information bearing states can be used, and the real utility of that needs to be understood. Quantum parallelism in computation is one possibility and will be assessed pessimistically. The energy dissipation requirements of computation, of measurement and of the communications link are discussed. The insights gained from the analysis of computation has caused a reappraisal of the perceived wisdom in the other two fields. A concluding section speculates about the nature of the laws of physics, which are algorithms for the handling of information, and must be executable in our real physical universe.'. back

Links

Adam Taylor, Britain's inquiry into the Iraq War is coming out soon. It only took 7 years, $15 million and 2.6 million words, 'Britain's Chilcot Inquiry will finally be released on July 6. To say it's highly anticipated would be an understatement. The inquiry, named after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot, was set up in 2009 to investigate the country's role in the Iraq War. Although the inquiry began seven years ago and last held public hearings in 2011, the report's release has been repeatedly delayed in large part because of disagreements about what classified information can be released.' back

Ambrose Bierce, Politics, 'Politics n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.'I back

Andrea Thompson, See Earth's temperature spiral toward 2C rise - graphic, 'The steady rise of Earth’s temperature as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and trap more and more heat is sending the planet spiraling closer to the point where warming’s catastrophic consequences may be all but assured. That metaphoric spiral has become a literal one in a new graphic drawn up by Ed Hawkins, . . .. The animated graphic features a rainbow-colored record of global temperatures spinning outward from the late 19th century to the present as the Earth heats up. . . . The graphic is part of Hawkins’s effort to explore new ways to present global temperature data in a way that clearly telegraphs the warming trend. Another climate scientist, Jan Fuglestvedt of the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo, suggested the spiral presentation.' back

Antony Funell, President Kennedy's topper: Reclaiming agency and why its important, 'Giving over our agency for thinking about the future has a lengthy tradition. Such acquiescence is the basis of the social construct we call religion; and it's long been a feature of both politics and our relationship with technology. Returning to Kennedy for a moment, one could argue that JFK became a sort of totem for many in the early 1960s—both in the United States and the wider world. He made a lot of people feel comfortable about the future, that he was somehow taking responsibility for leading them towards it.' back

Aquinas 160, Summa: I 27 1 Is there procession in God?, 'Our Lord says, "From God I proceeded" (Jn. 8:42).' back

Aquinas 30, Summa I, 5, 6: Is goodness divided into the virtuous [honestum] the useful [utile] and the pleasant [delectabile]?, 'I answer that, This division properly concerns human goodness. But if we consider the nature of goodness from a higher and more universal point of view, we shall find that this division properly concerns goodness as such. For everything is good so far as it is desirable, and is a term of the movement of the appetite; the term of whose movement can be seen from a consideration of the movement of a natural body. Now the movement of a natural body is terminated by the end absolutely; and relatively by the means through which it comes to the end, where the movement ceases; so a thing is called a term of movement, so far as it terminates any part of that movement. Now the ultimate term of movement can be taken in two ways, either as the thing itself towards which it tends, e.g. a place or form; or a state of rest in that thing. Thus, in the movement of the appetite, the thing desired that terminates the movement of the appetite relatively, as a means by which something tends towards another, is called the useful; but that sought after as the last thing absolutely terminating the movement of the appetite, as a thing towards which for its own sake the appetite tends, is called the virtuous; for the virtuous is that which is desired for its own sake; but that which terminates the movement of the appetite in the form of rest in the thing desired, is called the pleasant.' back

Baltimore Catechism, Baltimore Catechism Part 1, 'Baltimore Catechism No. 1 LESSON FIRST: ON THE END OF MAN 1. Q. Who made the world? A. God made the world.' back

Christian Davenport, A fight to rotect 'the most valuable real estate in space', '“We have considered space a sanctuary for quite some time. And therefore a lot of our systems are big, expensive, enormously capable, but enormously vulnerable,” said Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work. Perhaps most striking is how openly Pentagon officials are talking about their efforts to fight in space — especially because much of the work remains highly classified.' back

Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia, Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, performs an action that is contradictory to one or more beliefs, ideas, or values, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. An individual who experiences inconsistency (dissonance) tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to try to reduce this dissonance—as well as actively avoid situations and information likely to increase it back

Corinne Dufka, Confronting Mali's New Jihadist Threat, 'But in 2015, a new Islamist group emerged in Mali’s previously stable central and southern regions. The group, which appears to be the latest franchise of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and is often referred to as the Macina Liberation Front, has attacked military posts and executed mayors and councilmen. Its new area of operation is largely inhabited by the Peul ethnic group (also known as the Fulani), which makes up about 15 percent of Mali’s population.' back

Fermi-Dirac statistics - Wikipedia, Fermi-Dirac statistics - Wikipedia, the fre encyclopedia, 'In statistical mechanics, Fermi-Dirac statistics is a particular case of particle statistics developed by Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac that determines the statistical distribution of fermions over the energy states for a system in thermal equilibrium. In other words, it is the distribution of the probabilities that each possible energy levels is occupied by a fermion. back

George Joyce, The Blessed Trinity (Catholic Encyclopedia) , 'The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion — the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. back

Haaretz, Israel News: Haaretz Israelis News Source, back

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Wikipedia, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia, 'Written partly in response to social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, "The Struggle for Existence", Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the evidence of cooperation in nonhuman animals, in pre-feudal societies and medieval cities, and in modern times, he concluded that cooperation and mutual aid are the most important factors in the evolution of species and the ability to survive.' back

Ian Leslie, Amanda Knox: What's in a face?, 'Amanda Knox was convicted of murder and her reputation sullied around the world, in large part because of her facial expressions and demeanour. Her story reveals how our instincts about others can be dangerously superficial, writes Ian Leslie' back

Kathleen M Donovan-Maher and Steven L. Groopman, Why Dark Money is Bad Business, 'But as lawyers who specialize in investor rights, we see another critical, nonpartisan reason to support the rule: When it comes to political spending, companies are often not as informed as one might think — especially when it comes to dark money. By mandating disclosure, the rule would allow investors to serve as a potential check on risky political donations, and help investors determine whether a company’s political spending habits make its shares a good investment in the first place.' back

Klaus Renft Combo, Klaus Renft Combo - Die offizielle Heinseite, back

Lex Borthwick, Auatralia's cultural heritage: parents who despise education, 'These friends' parents mostly didn't support education, inducing or forcing their children to leave school early. Through overt or covert disdain for education, these parents condemned their kids to lifetimes of low incomes or unemployment, and the consequent problems, including social disaffection, crime, alcoholism, drug addictions, and family abuse. But most of these parents were themselves victims of their own parents, caught in cycles of negative parental influence probably stretching back several generations.' back

Masha Glesson, Putin and the Night Wolves vs. Poland, 'The Russian Foreign Ministry, in its outrage over the blockade and in pointing righteously to Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s recent visit to Russia to mark the anniversary of the plane crash, is profoundly tone-deaf. It appears to compare a Polish government delegation with a Russian motorcycle gang, a man grieving for his twin to a group commemorating a decades-old military triumph and a tragic accident to Nazi terror. But such is the cynical core of Russian propaganda: It turns everything into the moral equivalent of everything else.' back

Prince, Full concert = 02/30/82 Capitol Theatre, (Official) back

Ross Gittins, Budget 2016: How to unspin the budget, '. . . Malcolm Turnbull hasn't been able to withstand the pressure to use spin doctors to massage his messages to the electorate. A better term for that dubious profession is "perception manipulators". They "operationalise" one of modern politicians' core beliefs: the perception is the reality.'. . . You can blame it all on ever-declining standards of political behaviour - which Turnbull's arrival has failed to arrest - or you can share the blame with a media that allows itself to be manipulated.' back

Salvation History - Wikipedia, Salvation History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Salvation History (German Heilsgeschichte) seeks to understand the personal redemptive activity of God within human history to effect his eternal saving intentions. In the context of Christian theology, this approach understands events such as "the fall" at the beginning of history (Book of Genesis), the covenants established between God and Noah, Abraham, and Moses, the establishment of David's dynasty in the holy city of Jerusalem etc. as seminal moments in the history of humankind and its relationship to God; namely, as necessary events preparing for the salvation of all by Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.' back

Solidarity - Wikipedia, Solidarity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Solidarity is unity (as of a group or class) which produces or is based on unities of interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies.[1][2] It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one. The term is generally employed in sociology and the other social sciences as well as in philosophy or in Catholic social teaching. . . . Solidarity is also one of six principles of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union[4] and December 20 of each year is International Human Solidarity Day recognized as an international observance.' back

Wikipedia, Dedekind-infinite set, 'In mathematics, a set A is Dedekind-infinite if some proper subset B of A is equinumerous to A. Explicitly, this means that there is a bijective function from A onto some proper subset B of A. A set is Dedekind-finite if it is not Dedekind-infinite.' back