vol VII: Notes
2017
Notes
Sunday 6 August 2017 - Saturday 13 August 2017
[Notebook: DB 81: Scientific theology]
[page 84]
Sunday 6 August 2017
Auyang page 186: 'For it is the potential, not the force, that couples to the phase factor, the other conventional element on physical theories.' Auyang: How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?
From the network point of view, the potential is a message and the evolution of phase represents the computational process coding and decoding the messages.
'Phases and potentials are both what I call relational properties or gear properties in the sense that an isolated gear is incomplete; gears are designed to be coupled into a system.'
In stark contrast to classical mechanics, field theories admit no path-independent means of comparing and correlating. This is epistemologically satisfying, for universal and path-independent standards of comparison are conventional.' Meaning? They do not conform to reality? The network convention of coding and decoding and the network structure of many paths from a to b may be consistent with Auyang's vew of field theory.
[page 85]
Auyang page 189: Feynman path integral: 'To evaluate the phase difference and coupling between two events we have to account for the contribution from all paths [if they exist at this quantum mechanical level of space].
What does this mean for the network model? There is one highly probable path where the phases add and a lot of improbable paths where the phases cancel.
189: '. . . we find that the general concept of interactions is inherent in the general concept of objects. . . . [Events] have individually acquired richer intrinsic structures accounting for their being members of a community that is the interactive field system.'
Auyang's continuous field system is a continuous approximation to the digital (particulate) communication network. She is following Weinberg's notion that the field is the reality and the particles (messages) are 'epiphenomena'. This seems, from a communication theoretical point of view, to be exactly wrong.
page 190: 'Can we define entities that are absolutely and not merely approximately free from relations?'
Internal and external relations. All relations are internal as in God. An atom changes state when is absorbs or emits a photon. Accusations of crime dig deep into my soul. They are breaking the isolationist shell that I grew to protect myself from the Catholic Church.
Aquinas thought relations were accidents in the world but real in God. In the divine world, all relations are internal and are mediated by communication. Aquinas: Summa: I 28 2: Is relation in God the same as His essence?
Monday 7 August 2017
Tuesday 8 August 2017
Auyang page 260: Einstein (translated by Schilpp): 'The real is not given to us but put to us (by way of a riddle).' 'Das Wirkliche ist uns nicht gegeben, sondern aufgegeben (nach Art eines Rätsels).
[page 85]
Wednesday 9 August 2017
Hopelessness is closely related to powerlessness. To have power over a system is to be able to control it. The level of power is measured by the . . . score in two bins: 'made it do what I wanted' and 'it went its own way'. In the end the aim of religion is control of a population. In most systems we have the majority of power in the hands of a relatively small proportion of the population who exploit the rest, but like any entrepreneur, they must maintain the value of the exploited population. This is the business approach to government. The alternative is the symmetrical approach where we are all fermions living our lives in communication with one another by bosons.
Insight gives control, ie [seeing symmetries, so] bringing the size of the space to be controlled down to a manageable level.
My dream is a thermonuclear idea that brings peace to the world by demonstrating that we are all subject to force majeur and better get used to the idea. This is what two year olds like Trump fail to see, that we can only do what we like if we stay within the bounds imposed by reality. There is a limit to how much carbon we can burn and methane we can release into the atmosphere.
The next step is to update the theory of peace by revising it into a chapter pf scientific theology. We live in the bounds of realty and when we step outside it we sicken and die.
Thursday 10 August 2017
Friday 11 August 2017
A new project: a version of digital network field theory directed to Physics Today
[page 87]
Not getting very far these days but want to think of the network dynamics of the universe somehow in terms of rotation in a transfinite dimensional space. Why? Perhaps because the foundation of all process is the group U(1). This fits neatly with quantum mechanics which is all a matter of phase, that is a measure of rotation, and also closely [related to the motion of vectors in Hilbert space].
What we are looking for is a model that is both simple and comprehensive enough to give guidance on human affairs. What we want is a democratic network that harnesses the efforts of everyone working in parallel towards a peaceful and prosperous society. Such a society requires a common code which we here like to call God, the incorporation of consistency.
Physics Today: — the network model mapped onto quantum mechanics through the medium of complex function space. Hilbert space of varying cardinality from 0 to unlimited transfinite numbers. Somehow the Hilbert oscillator comes into this. We begin with the fundamental 4D network we want to call the diron alluding to the 4D Dirac equation. Finite network gives us a clear and computable version of the space-time, momentum-energy, fermion-boson structure of the universe and somehow link this back to the nergy equation which bifurcates twice to give us the 4D world. Given a firm finite foundation we can then branch out into the transfinite 'wave function of the Universe' which is generated by permutations of very simple wave functions beginning with energy and U(1).
Saturday 12 August 2017
Mathematics is formalized fiction bound only by an infinite supply of symbols, a transfinite supply of mappings between symbols, and the requirement of consistency. In this respect it is not much different from artistic or dramatic [literary] fiction, which adds the requirements of beauty and truth to human experience. Consistency is not so important. We would be disappointed with a detective novel whose denouement is not consistent with the clues, but
[page 88]
much of the interest in novels and drama lies in the inconsistencies between the characters and their points of view, reflecting the multiplicity of human and animal personalities that inhabit the world.
Physics: the application of mathematical fictions to the world. The dominant paradigm in physics is continuity, differentiability and integrability. The dominant paradigm in mathematics, on the other hand is logical continuity [proof].
Physics Today article begins with Wigner revisited. Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics Revisited
Up tp now I have been very much on a reconnaissance mission scoping out the possibility of scientific theology. Nearly everything I have written has the word theology in it somewhere. Now I turn to pure physics. In the context of the divine universe, physics is the study of God's body. But we do not have to mention God. Instead we construct the transfinite computer network, show that it can do everything that quantum mechanics and quantum field theory can do, placing it into a logical continuum rather than a geometric continuum. We can only begin to understand the mental powers of the Universe when we model them by our own [mental powers, which are a consequence of the network structure of our minds].
Continuous mathematics does not truly represent reality except through the law of large numbers which enables us to treat very large numbers of individual events as a continuum. So general relativity gives us a fictitious continuous description of a quantized universe.
Cut the internet of to make myself write.
Berger, page 119: 'A rediscovery of the supernatural will be above all a regaining of openness in our perception of reality.' Supernatural = transfinite. Berger: A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural
[page 89]
Modern physics is a lot like the Catholic Church, discounting the observables ('mere epiphenomena') in favour of the invisible continuous fields [not phenomena at all] that embody a heap of inconsistencies arising from the desire to make them the real continuous ontological foundation of reality.
Fermions and the corresponding bosons are born simultaneously since we cannot have one without the other: no bosons, fermions cannot communicate and so may as well not exist. No fermions, no need for bosons. In fundamental physics the spin statistics theorem depends on the velocity of light [and spacelike separation]. We can imagine an analogous theorem in other communication links where the differentiation of fermion and boson depends on some local velocity, like the speed of a horse.
The basic universal Turing machine simply adds phases.
