vol VII: Notes

2017

Notes

Sunday 5 February 2017 - Saturday 11 February 2017

[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]

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Sunday 5 February 2017

Scientific theology embraces all the sciences.

Set theory, algebra, meaning, symmetry. x means all symbols with the symmetry of being like x, whatever that may be, a set of numbers, or of persons / sources.

The world is being damaged by the reductionisr approach of seeing everything through the eyes of monetary profit, rather like looking at forests simply as biomass for energy production. Have said these things so many times. The project now is to link all these ideas together under the umbrella of theology.

Joseph page 512: ' . . . if there is single universal object that transcends linguistic, national and cultural barriers and is acceptable to all and denied by none, it is our present set of numerals. From its remote beginnings in India, its gradual spread in all directions remains the great romantic episode in the history of mathematics.' Joseph: The Crest of the Peacock

Monday 6 February 2017

Tuesday 7 February 2017

Peace and complexity: war is the breakdown of same, dropping down to simple and harder layers. The hardest is God (the

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Father) the single universal act (of being). What we are doing behind the scenes is using the transfinite computer network to give new meanings to a lot of old terms, giving then new connections to one another. After actus purus comes potency and act, which we now call potential and kinetic energy. By making the Universe divine we convert potential from something passive (in Aristotle / Aquinas) to something active in God. The potentials are the fixed points that are the dual of the dynamics. The duality can collapse into the Father (better call it the parent from now on and remove the reference to gender).

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Where am I? What am I? etc? In a state that has arisen from 14 billion years of evolution and my own experience since conception. Everybody else is in a similar state but all these states are unique. The human state is a unique state [defined by the human genome] but it is a fermion state. We may consider Turing machines as states and networks of Turing machines (as I am) to also be states which, taken as fixed points, determine (to a degree sufficient for life) how inputs are processed (food, information etc) to give responses. We have long since categorized human states as lysing on a spectrum running from left to right, where left emphasizes the social aspect of human existence and right emphasizes the individualistic aspects of life. Individualism requires the wealth and freedom to act individualistically (eccentrically) and so may be found more among the wealthy, establishing correlations between poor and social and rich and anti-social. So Thatcher: 'there is no such thing as society'. Margaret Thatcher: Epitaph for the eighties? "there is no such thing as society"

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A state is a set of fixed points. We represent a state symbolically by ψ(a_i), where the a_i are the letters of an alphabet which we may take to be an orthogonal basis for a Hilbert space.

Ridderbos: entropy cannot increase in a deterministic system becasue of Liouville's theorem. Katinka Ridderbos: The coarse-graining approach to statistical mechanics: how blissful is our ignorance?

Thursday 9 February

Trump is stress testing US democracy. What I would like to be able to do is give a mathematically sound argument that democracy must be a winner because it has superior processing power delivered by networking and meaning, parallel processing that takes advantage of the fact that the world is full of symmetries, the Turing machines that the Universe (ie God) uses to process itself. God, insofar as it is deterministic is computable.

Maintenance: doing the dishes, pumping warer. Carnot's theory (like Shannon's) tells us how much certainty we can extract from an essentially random system.

Overfilled the sink, but wrote a good para, above.

The omnipotent / omniscient God of classical physics and classical theology has impossible powers. It is understood ro be able to solve incomputable problems. In the modern era this hope os embedded in the belief that quantum computers can outperform Turing

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machines. Market down but ideas good. Gradually

Today's key idea: survival, reproduction, computability.

Friday 10 February 2017

Saturday 11 February 2017

Clean coal, renewable energy, global warming. Many people seem to have an interest in maintaining the status quo in the energy industry. This might be because they cannot believe the science, or they have a vested interest in the old ways financially, intellectually or emotionally. Because many people will not change their minds and the issue is urgent, they must be cut out of the decision making so that the body politic can go ahead and do what is necessary. In Australia the Federal government is dragging the chain to help the coal interests but the banks and other players i9n the energy industry know we are in a new world where must adapt or go broke (be annihilates, become extinct, etc).

Peacemaking: the generation of a continuous spectrum where once there was a step discontinuity.

Energy cannot increase in a deterministic system (?). Does determinitic mean reversible? Erasure kills reversibility? not at the fundamental level [?].

Fire out. Temperature 40 degrees. Fortunately almost no wind and it looks like no storm tonight. No lightning good. No rain, bad.

So what is the algorithm for a good policy? Something derived

by variation of a Lagrangian. In biological evolution the variation is 3ncodes n the genome of the children. This suggests that the Euler-Lagrange to develop physical theories may be applied to political situations f we ca identify the analogue of the Lagrangian in them. The world likes things where KE - PE is a constant, which may as well be 0 since quantum mechanics recognises no absolute scale of energy (?) [frequency = energy difference is all it sees].

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Further reading

Books

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Joseph, George Gheverghese, The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics, Princeton University Press 2010 'From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it clear that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. George Gheverghese Joseph takes us on a breathtaking multicultural tour of the roots and shoots of non-European mathematics. He shows us the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks, the Arabs' major creative contributions, and the astounding range of successes of the great civilizations of India and China.'  Amazon   back

Links

Charles Lawrence, George HW Busg's comrades were easten by the Japanses POW guard, 'The former President George HW Bush narrowly escaped being beheaded and eaten by Japanese soldiers when he was shot down over the Pacific in the Second World War, a shocking new history published in America has revealed. The book, Flyboys, is the result of historical detective work by James Bradley, whose father was among the marines later photographed raising the flag over the island of Iwo Jima.' back

Dave Levitan, Republicans Offer to Tax Carbon Emission, 'The plan, released by the Climate Leadership Council in a report titled “The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends,” would tax carbon beginning at $40 per ton. The price would then rise each year to help push emissions down. The revenues generated—about $194 billion in the first year, rising up past $250 billion within a decade—would then be redistributed by the Social Security Administration in the form of quarterly checks to every U.S. household. Proponents hope that idea would swing public support toward aggressive climate change mitigation.' back

E J Dionne Jr, Steve Bannon vs Pope Francis?, 'Bannon believes that “the Judeo-Christian West is in a crisis.” He calls for a return of “the church militant” who will “fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity,” which threatens to “completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.” ' back

Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric - Wikipedia, Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric is an exact solution of Einstein's field equations of general relativity; it describes a simply connected, homogeneous, isotropic expanding or contracting universe.' back

Jason Horowitz, Steve Bannon Carries Battles to Another Infuential Hub: The Vatican, 'Just as Mr. Bannon has connected with far-right parties threatening to topple governments throughout Western Europe, he has also made common cause with elements in the Roman Catholic Church who oppose the direction Francis is taking them. Many share Mr. Bannon’s suspicion of Pope Francis as a dangerously misguided, and probably socialist, pontiff.' back

Jugal K. Patel, A Cracki n an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months, 'Once the crack reaches all the way across the ice shelf, the break will create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, according to Project Midas, a research team that has been monitoring the rift since 2014. Because of the amount of stress the crack is placing on the remaining 20 miles of the shelf, the team expects the break soon.' back

Katinka Ridderbos, The coarse-graining approach to statistical mechanics: how blissful is our ignorance?, 'The microdynamical origin of thermodynamic irreversibility represents perhaps the most important unsolved problem in the conceptual foundations of statistical mechanics, and it is this problem on which I shall focus attention in this paper. In particular, I will analyse the coarse-graining approach to statistical mechanics and the problems it faces in accountin gfor thermodynamic irreversibility.' back

Louis-Phillippe Belland and Daniel Brent, The stress of sitting in traffic can lead to more crime, 'Our results highlight a new consequence of traffic, in addition to the congestion, pollution and health impacts that have been established in the literature. This is important, as the direct and indirect costs of a domestic violence incident is estimated to be up to US$107,020. We estimate that the economic cost of traffic-induced domestic violence ranges from $5 million to $10 million per year. ' back

Margaret Thatcher, Epitaph for the eighties? "there is no such thing as society", '"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation." ' back

Mark Steel, The Lords should block Brexit to remind the people rthat 'will of the people' is nothing compared to the will of the rich., 'But some of those who campaigned to remain in Europe are in such a state of shock that they’re desperate to find any way to stop us leaving, including through the House of Lords. You can understand the confusion, but it may not be healthy if you’re thinking, “the only way to keep this country in a liberal inclusive direction is to ignore a referendum and hand the decision to unelected squires and the Archbishop of York”.' back

Massoud Hayoun, A Chinese American lesson for Trump, 'Remembering how the earliest arrivals among them were targeted by discriminatory immigration policies, some Chinese Americans are cautioning Washington against repeating the mistakes it made more than a century ago.'˜ back

Melissa Davey, Medical journal to retractpaper after concern organs came from executed prisoners, 'A prestigious medical journal will retract a scientific paper from Chinese surgeons about liver transplantation after serious concerns were raised that the organs used in the study had come from executed prisoners of conscience. The study was published last year in Liver International. It examined the outcomes of 564 liver transplantations performed consecutively at Zhejiang University’s First Affiliated hospital between April 2010 and October 2014.' back

Rachel Browne, Catholic Church a 'law unto itself' Archbishop tells royal commission, 'The Catholic church is a "law unto itself" in need of serious cultural reform if it is to properly address widespread allegations of child sexual abuse within its ranks, a royal commission heard. The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse there was a lack of transparency within the church.' back

Rebecca Smithers, Instagram generation is fuelling UK food waste mountain, study finds, 'The over-55s are the most comfortable in the kitchen, the survey found, with just 18% wishing they knew more about managing and cooking food. In contrast, more than half of those aged 18 to 34 admit a lack of culinary know-how. When it comes to throwing away leftovers, 18- to 34-year-olds are the most likely culprits, with 17% of them leaving leftovers three or more times a week.' back

Richard Thompson Ford, The Ties That Bind, 'Mr. Trump’s tie symbolizes one of the central questions of his candidacy, and now his presidency. Is his seeming ineptness genuine? Or is it part of a contrived performance, designed to deploy the symbols of power while rejecting the conventions of civility that have traditionally defined and constrained them?' back

William D.Cohan, Welcome Back, Wall Street. Now Pay Us Back., 'If only we had been clever enough to take Donald Trump neither literally nor seriously, we would have known that after vilifying Wall Street throughout his campaign, he would embrace it once he got to the Oval Office. And, just like that, Wall Street is swarming the Trump administration and steering financial policy.' . . . The 2008 financial crisis badly hurt Wall Street by removing all doubt that the people who work there are in it for themselves (and their fat paychecks) regardless of the consequences of their poor judgment on the rest of us. That perception must be changed if we want ordinary Americans to benefit from a functioning Wall Street.' back