vol VII: Notes

2016

Notes

Sunday 22 May 2016 - Saturday 28 May 2016

[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]

[page 86]

Sunday 22 May 2016

Lying in bed as snug as a bug in a rug, then in the bath, equally snug, trying to summon the spirit of Archimedes to explain the origins of space, fundamental particles and entropy at the big bang in terms of the network model and envisage the orderly emergence of the fixed points in the divine dynamics in parallel with the standard models of cosmology and particle physics. From the physicists' point of view the order parameter is decreasing temperature and increasing entropy in a 4D space-time already in existence. I am uncomfortable with the infinite temperature at the origin (since temperature is meaningless if there are not yet any particles), and I want to understand the creation of space in terms of fermions and bosons. Have been on this problem for years and want to create a bit of light in my mind. So coffee and read the news and wait for inspiration. Cosmology - Wikipedia, Standard model - Wikipedia, Fermion - Wikipedia, Boson - Wikipedia

All my actions are communications, with things, plants, animals or people, including myself.

[page 87]

Keep being tempted to throw the whole network thing out because I cannot see how it fits current quantum field theory. Quantum field theory - Wikipedia

Wiki QFT: A QFT treats particles as excited states of an underlying physical field, so these are called field quanta [field = law, particle = funded, ie implemented law].

Excited state: Higher energy than ground state.

Ground state: Lowest energy, zero point energy, processing rate to remain in existence, basic metabolic rate. Jérôme Martin: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmologial Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Physical field: In QFT a field occupies space, contains energy and its presence eliminates the true vacuum.

Feynman: 'The fact that the electromagnetic field can possess momentum and energy makes it very real . . . a particle makes a field and the field acts on another particle, and the field has such familiar properties as energy content and momentum just as particles can have.' The field is bosons, the 'particles' fermions [?] Field (physics) - Wikipedia

Field: scalar, vector, spinor, tensor
Classical: numbers; quantum: operators

'. . . all particles . . . could be understood as quanta of some quantum field, elevating fields to the status of the most fundamental objects in nature.'

God is the ultimate boundary of the universe, closed at the beginning (past) open to the future.

[page 88]

Monday 23 May 2016

I write and think with fear and trembling because so much of our received belief seems so wrong and the source of so much pain and suffering right up to genocide and crimes against humanity, but I cannot get it right. The foundation for my search for a new way is a new conception of god and reality which seeks to arrive at the same results from a different model, replacing many arbitrary and intuitively self-contradictory ideas of the nature of the world with something that seems natural and consistent but I cannot do it and this leads to a sort of despair. At present this centres on the excellent results of quantum field theory which nevertheless do not seem right to me. I think however, given my old age, to drop the quest and sit back and enjoy myself but I cannot do it. As I wrote long ago, I can charge these ideas until (what is left of) my teeth rattle and make no progress. Such is the mystery of insight [decoding the world]. But there is no turning back and if I keep going I might get to the light at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile as far as practical reality goes I am beautifully supported by the society I live in and want to give something back for the benefits I receive and can see no better way than to go on with the task of putting theology on a new foundation that opens our minds to the creative power of the world we occupy to give us all the space to live.

Tuesday 24 May 2016

My answer to depression is always action, and I am back at it and happy again.

[page 89]

Writing seems to be more stressful than carpentry, perhaps because it involves continuous uncertainty and the resolution of problems, whereas carpentry, once a problem has been solved, leads to a period of relatively unconscious work putting the solution into reality using the standardized methods of the trade, Now that grandparenthood is constraining me to full time writing I fid myself getting tireder than through physical work.

Gravitational singularity = space-time curvature becomes infinite [?].

Reading about Ramanujan and being reminded that I am so unqualified to work on a mathematical revolution in theology but have no choice (like Burke and Wills) but to go on until someone with a bit of talent takes on the job. Whinging a bit, largely, probably because it cheers me up and distracts me from working on the website/book. Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia

Mum died this afternoon

Wednesday 25 May 2016

[Epochs of the universe]

Planck epoch
Grand unification epoch
Electroweak
Inflationary epoch
Baryogenesis
Supersymetry breaking
Quark epoch
Hadron epoch
Lepton epoch
Photon epoch
Nucleosynthesis
Matter Domination
Recombination
Dark Ages

[page 90]

Large scale structure formation
Reionization
Star formation
Galaxies
Solar system
Ultimate fate Chronology of the universe - Wikipedia

How can the network model fit into all this. Each epoch is a new layer, and in the standard models the layers are arranged by temperature which is the energy per particle, ie the rate of action per particle, which is the rate of communication per particle ie per source.

Trodden Baryogenesis Mark Trodden

Universe has no initial conditions except local consistency. If we are to have p and not-p, we need spatial separation, and we might guess that the Cantor force creates space. The Cantor force is a version of the second law of thermodynamics.

Trodden: If baryon number is conserved, where do baryons come from in the firt place?

Higgs mechanism to give mass to s boson. What does the network say about this? Higgs mechanism - Wikipedia

Thursday 26 May 2016

[page 91]

New phys10Space

FLRW [ Frîedman-LeMaitre-Robertson-Walker] metric, density of mass = 0 gives 'Milne universe' Milne model - Wikipedia

Friday 27 May 2016

Reading a lot of cosmological stuff full of hypotheticals and would love to see my baby do better, but not much hope. The basic problem seems to be where does all the energy come from - how does almighty god spring into life? Another problem for me is how do a large number of particles come into existence? Physics and cosmology seem to think they just happen when there is enough energy around, but how and how are they given their specific behaviours and connections [all comes from the fields, but where do the fields come from?]. Always waiting for inspiration, but have not got far in the last fifty years.

From logic to arithmetic may work a bit like from gaussian coordinates to metric.

Saturday 28 May 2016

Comment to Commonweal:

The Church, the 'mystical body of Christ', is a massive entity that has gained enormous momentum over the last two thousand years. Many of us can see that it is going in the wrong direction, categorizing everyone as sinners, denying justice to the victims of aberrant clergy, dividing people into believers and unbelievers, treating women as lesser beings, dogmatically enforcing beliefs that make no sense, and so on. These instituional failings are plain to see through their contrast to modern liberal, democratic evidence based society. The turnaround is essentially a political task, drumming up the numbers for change, so encounter and dialogue are rightly at the centre of Francis' attempt to bring the Church into the 21st century. Robert Mickens: Does Dialogue Require "Renunciation of Truth"?

Martin: page 2: 'Indeed from the Heisenberg uncertainty principles we know that the ground state energy of the quantum harmonic oscillator cannot be zero because the potential and kinetic energies cannot vanish at the same time [even though their sum is zero?].' Jérôme Martin: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmologial Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask)

[page 92]

Martin page 2: Since a (free) quantum field can be viewed as an infinite collection of harmonic oscillators, it immediately comes that the ground state energy must be infinite.'

'Vacuum fluctuations could be a mathematical artefact of the quantum field theory framework . . . '

page 4: Zero point fluctuations gravitate - because they are a form of energy.

One would expect the universe to be quite simple at the fundamental level, but the baroque computations in Martin (and elsewhere in the field theory literature) suggest that this is not the case. A lot of the problem arises, I feel, because the ancient simplicities are now embedded in the complex modern world and this complexifies them just as simple electromagnetic interactions become exceedingly complex in, say, a living body. It may also be that much of this complexity arises from the use of continuous mathematics in regions where the universe may be simply digital.

page 77: '. . . there is no time operator because time is not a dynamical variable.'

We measure time by integrating the transitions of the clock from p to ~p (1 to 0). These transitions may occur at 'random' intervals but we have no clock anterior to this natural clock which generates energy. So we may as well assume that Δt = n.ticks. [Development, Chapter 4: Physics, page 4: Energy]

Dynamical variables change with time. Times does not change with time.

[page 95]

Would like to think that the quantum theoretical insolubility of the cosmological constant problem is an opening for the network approach to quantum gravity [Feynman diagrams, an infinite superposition of networks, maybe]. Feynman diagram - Wikipedia

What we are thinking is that something like the metric expansion of space points to the scale invariance of Plank's constant in the sense that there is but one 'master' quantum of action in any event even if this event involves vast number of quanta of action like my lifetime or a supernova, eg a halted computation is measured by one quantum of action even if it involves a huge number of quantum operations like elementary nands. This enables us to see the whole as actus purus analogous to the classical god, at the same time involving a transfinite number of quantum actions corresponding to every event (fixed point) in the divine dynamics. Keep rattling the bones and something might come out.

Weinberg page 32: 'The essence of the new theories is that the weak and strong interactions are described in a way that is almost identical to the successful older quantum field theory of electromagnetic interactions. Just as electromagnetic interactions among charged particles are produced by the exchange of photons, so the weak interactions are produced by the exchange of particles called intermediate vector bosons and the strong interaction by the exchange of particles called gluons. All these particles — photons, intermediate vector bosons and gluons — have equal spin and have interactions governed by powerful symmetry principles known as gauge symmetries. (A gauge symmetry principle states that the fundamental equations do not change their form when the fields are subjected to certain transformations whose effect varies with position and time.)

[page 94]

Because these theories are so similar to quantum electrodynamics they share its fundamental property of being renormalizable. Indeed the relation between weak and electromagnetic interactions is not merely one of analogy — the theory unites the two and treats the fields of the photon and the intermediate vector bosons as members of a single family of fields. Steven Weinberg: The Search for Unity: Notes for a History of Quantum Field Theory, Gauge theory - Wikipedia

Weinberg page 34: There are very few renormalizable quantum field theories. For instance it is possible to construct quantized theories of electromagnetism in which the electron has any magnetic moment we like, but only one of these of these theories, corresponding to a magnetic moment of 1.0011596523 . . . times the Dirac value, is renormalizable. . . .We very much need a guiding principle like renormalizability to help pick the quantum theory of the real world out of the infinity of conceivable quantum field theories.

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Jaynes, Julian, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Mariner Books 2000 Jacket: 'At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing.'  Amazon   back

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Sands, Philippe, East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity", Knopf 2016 'A profound and profoundly important book—a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich.'  Amazon   back

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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

Boson - Wikipedia, Boson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In particle physics, bosons are particles with an integer spin, as opposed to fermions which have half-integer spin. From a behaviour point of view, fermions are particles that obey the Fermi-Dirac statistics while bosons are particles that obey the Bose-Einstein statistics. They may be either elementary, like the photon, or composite, as mesons. All force carrier particles are bosons. They are named after Satyendra Nath Bose. In contrast to fermions, several bosons can occupy the same quantum state. Thus, bosons with the same energy can occupy the same place in space.' back

Cal Flyn, 'My relative was a mass murdered of Australia's Gunai people. Can I make amends?, 'In 2011 I made an uncomfortable discovery about my family history. I had a famous great-great-great uncle, I learned: Angus McMillan. He was an explorer of early Australia, but in recent years he has also been identified as the man responsible for a series of massacres of the Gunai (sometimes referred to as the Gunaikurnai) people of Gippsland in the south-eastern state of Victoria. These attacks were cold-blooded and without mercy. Men with guns descended upon unsuspecting encampments, killing men, women and children; they were killed, as one settler wrote later, “whenever [the Gunai] can be met with”. In the first 10 years of settlement in Gippsland, the Gunai population fell by more than 90%, to little more than 100 individuals.' back

Chronology of the universe - Wikipedia, Chronology of the universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The chronology of the universe describes the history and future of the universe according to Big Bang cosmology, the prevailing scientific model of how the universe developed over time from the Planck epoch, using the cosmological time parameter of comoving coordinates. The metric expansion of space is estimated to have begun 13.8 billion years ago.' back

Cosmology - Wikipedia, Cosmology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos "world" and -λογία, -logia "study of"), is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. Physical cosmology is the scholarly and scientific study of the origin, evolution, large-scale structures and dynamics, and ultimate fate of the universe, as well as the scientific laws that govern these realities. Religious or mythological cosmology is a body of beliefs based on mythological, religious, and esoteric literature and traditions of creation and eschatology.' back

Craig Gidney, My Quantum Circuit Simulator, 'I've been working on a quantum circuit simulator that runs in your browser. It's called Quirk. Quirk is open source (github repository: Strilanc/Quirk), and there's a live instance you can play with at algorithmicassertions.com/quirk' back

Daniel Andrews, 'Unimaginably wrong' Victoria's gay conviction apology speech in full, 'It all started here. It will end here, too. To our knowledge, no jurisdiction in the world has ever offered a full and formal apology for laws like these. So please, let these words rest forever in our records: On behalf of the parliament, the government and the people of Victoria … For the laws we passed. And the lives we ruined. And the standards we set. … we are so sorry … humbly, deeply, sorry.” ' back

Fermion - Wikipedia, Fermion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In particle physics, fermions are particles with a half-integer spin, such as protons and electrons. They obey the Fermi-Dirac statistics and are named after Enrico Fermi. In the Standard Model there are two types of elementary fermions: quarks and leptons. . . . In contrast to bosons, only one fermion can occupy a quantum state at a given time (they obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle). Thus, if more than one fermion occupies the same place in space, the properties of each fermion (e.g. its spin) must be different from the rest. Therefore fermions are usually related with matter while bosons are related with radiation, though the separation between the two is not clear in quantum physics. back

Feynman diagram - Wikipedia, Feynman diagram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In quantum field theory a Feynman diagram is an intuitive graphical representation of a contribution to the transition amplitude or correlation function of a quantum mechanical or statistical field theory' back

Field (physics) - Wikipedia, Field (physics) - Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, a field is a physical quantity associated to each point of spacetime. . . . Defining the field as "numbers in space" shouldn't detract from the idea that it has physical reality. “It occupies space. It contains energy. Its presence eliminates a true vacuum.” [Wheeler] The vacuum is free of matter, but not free of field. The field creates a "condition in space" "[Feynman] "The fact that the electromagnetic field can possess momentum and energy makes it very real... a particle makes a field, and a field acts on another particle, and the field has such familiar properties as energy content and momentum, just as particles can have" [Feynman].' back

Gardiner Harris, At Hiroshma Memorial, Obama Says Nuclear Arms Require 'Moral Revolution' , 'HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Obama laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday, telling an audience that included survivors of America’s atomic bombing in 1945 that technology as devastating as nuclear arms demands a “moral revolution.” . . . “Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us,” Mr. Obama said, adding that such technology “requires a moral revolution as well.” ' back

Gauge theory - Wikipedia, Gauge theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian is invariant under a continuous group of local transformations. . . . The term gauge refers to redundant degrees of freedom in the Lagrangian. The transformations between possible gauges, called gauge transformations, form a Lie group—referred to as the symmetry group or the gauge group of the theory. Associated with any Lie group is the Lie algebra of group generators. For each group generator there necessarily arises a corresponding field (usually a vector field) called the gauge field.' back

Higgs mechanism - Wikipedia, Higgs mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, or some other effect like it, all bosons (a type of fundamental particle) would be massless, but measurements show that the W+, W−, and Z bosons actually have relatively large masses of around 80 GeV/c2. The Higgs field resolves this conundrum.' back

Jérôme Martin, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmologial Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask), Abstract: 'This article aims at discussing the cosmological constant problem at a pedagogical but fully technical level. We review how the vacuum energy can be regularized in flat and curved space-time and how it can be understood in terms of Feynman bubble diagrams. In particular, we show that the properly renormalized value of the zero-point energy density today (for a free theory) is in fact far from being 122 orders of magnitude larger than the critical energy density, as often quoted in the literature. . . . ' back

Jon Schwartz, Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government are "Stupid", 'An agency man raised the problem that had preoccupied Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and [U.S. spokesman] Barry Zorthian — about the credibility of American officials. Responded the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs: “Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.” ' back

Kate Smolski, The case of Bulga village is part of a broader pattern that's hurting NSW, 'After more than six years of legal wrangling and collusion by the Baird Government with mining giant Rio Tinto, residents of the Hunter Valley village of Bulga have withdrawn their court appeal against Rio's Warkworth mine expansion. . . .In the Bulga case, when the NSW courts overruled the planning system and knocked back Rio's project because of unacceptable environmental and social impacts, Rio whinged to the government and the government changed the law so the company could re-apply under more favourable rules.' back

Mark Trodden, Electroweak Baryogensis, 'Contrary to naive cosmological expectations, all evidence suggests that the universe contains an abundance of matter over antimatter. T his article re- views the currently popular scenario in which testable phys ics, present in the standard model of electroweak interactions and its mode st extensions, is responsible for this fundamental cosmological datum. A p edagogical ex- planation of the motivations and physics behind electrowea k baryogenesis is provided, and analytical approaches, numerical studies, u p to date develop- ments and open questions in the field are also discussed.' back

Michael Slezak, Australia scrubed from UN climate change report after government intervention, 'Guardian Australia can reveal the report “World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate”, which Unesco jointly published with the United Nations environment program and the Union of Concerned Scientists on Friday, initially had a key chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, as well as small sections on Kakadu and the Tasmanian forests. But when the Australian Department of Environment saw a draft of the report, it objected, and every mention of Australia was removed by Unesco. Will Steffen, one of the scientific reviewers of the axed section on the reef, said Australia’s move was reminiscent of “the old Soviet Union”.' back

Milne model - Wikipedia, Milne model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Milne model was a special-relativistic cosmological model proposed by Edward Arthur Milne in 1935. It is mathematically equivalent to a special case of the FLRW model in the limit of zero energy density (in other words, an empty universe) and it obeys the cosmological principle. The Milne model is also similar to Rindler space, a simple re-parameterization of flat Minkowski space. Since it features both zero energy density and maximally negative spatial curvature, the Milne model is contradicted by cosmological observations. Cosmologists actually observe the universe's density parameter to be consistent with unity and its curvature to be consistent with flatness.' back

Philippe Sands, How the Nuremberg trials found names for the Nazis' crimes, 'In this extract from his book East West Street, human rights lawyer Philippe Sands tells the personal stories of how genocide and crimes against humanity were first defined in law.' back

Quantum field theory - Wikipedia, Quantum field theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Quantum field theory (QFT) provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of systems classically described by fields or (especially in a condensed matter context) of many-body systems. . . . In QFT photons are not thought of as 'little billiard balls', they are considered to be field quanta - necessarily chunked ripples in a field that 'look like' particles. Fermions, like the electron, can also be described as ripples in a field, where each kind of fermion has its own field. In summary, the classical visualisation of "everything is particles and fields", in quantum field theory, resolves into "everything is particles", which then resolves into "everything is fields". In the end, particles are regarded as excited states of a field (field quanta). back

Rhonda Lynette-Smith and Ian Martin McDonald, More competition may not be the answer to reforming the aged care system, 'The Harper Inquiry report shows that even if competition delivers efficiency gains, it may not deliver services of the desired type or quality and it may result in some groups in society being disadvantaged. The report cautioned that: “Governments should retain a stewardship function, separating the interests of policy (including funding), regulation and service delivery,” whilst also recognising the need for “ensuring minimum standards of quality and access in human services.” ' back

Robert Mickens, Does Dialogue Require "Renunciation of Truth", 'If you step back and survey Francis’s first three years in office you can see through so many of his initiatives and actions that he has tried to forge peace among broken families, bickering Catholic factions, divided Christians, folks of other religions and no religion at all, and even among rivaling world leaders and society figures. But it is the manner in which he has tried to bring about peace in all these areas that is most striking and which marks a shift from the style of his most recent predecessor. Pope Francis has sought and pursued peace through encounter and dialogue.' back

Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia, Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician and autodidact. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions.' back

Standard model - Wikipedia, Standard model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles that make up all matter. It is a quantum field theory developed between 1970 and 1973 which is consistent with both quantum mechanics and special relativity. To date, almost all experimental tests of the three forces described by the Standard Model have agreed with its predictions. However, the Standard Model falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions, primarily because of its lack of inclusion of gravity, the fourth known fundamental interaction, but also because of the large number of numerical parameters (such as masses and coupling constants) that must be put "by hand" into the theory (rather than being derived from first principles) . . . ' back

Steven Weinberg, The Search for Unity: Notes for a History of Quantum Field Theory, 'In its essentils this point o view has survived to the present day, and forms the central dogma of quantum field theory. The esential reality is a set of fields, subject to the rules of special relativity and quantum mechanics; all else is derived as a consequence of the quantum dynamics of these fields' back

Timothy Ean, A Walk in the Dead Woods, 'The collapse of the conifers is blamed in large part on a beetle the size of a grain of rice that has metastasized with climate change. In record warm years — which is to say, nearly every year of the last decade — the trees’ natural defense systems weaken and beetles reproduce in large numbers. The infestation killing forests all over the Western Hemisphere has been called the largest insect outbreak in global history.' back