Notes

Sunday 2 April 2023 - Saturday 8 April

[Notebook: DB 88 Salvation]

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Sunday 2 April 2023

Have said it before and I will say it again. Kinematics is formal sequence of events without any intrinsic causality, the sequence established by some other method such as running a film or a computer process. Dynamic or causal means that the events occurring are a causal sequence involving some sort of forces, like actually walking with all the physiological chain from food to muscle contraction happening in real time.

The key idea is to replace the whole notion of quantum fluctuation with the divine emission of action. Here is the radical theoretical error exposed in the cosmological constant problem. Cosmological constant problem - Wikipedia

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (film) - Wikipedia – a work of art. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (film) - Wikipedia

The data behind quantum chromodynamics was collected over many years with very complex and sophisticated equipment using very innovative methods. The data is very precise. The interpretstion, like the rest of quantum field theory, is ratshit, built on radical misunderstandings of the role of mathematics in physics.

Monday 3 April 2023

Here we come to the critical part of my critique and interpretation of quantum field theory. My ambition is

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far greater than my ability, but I must do what I can to build my new picture of the world by always seeking clear foundations from the beginning of the world, the divine sequence of action. Quantum mechanics is deprecated as a random affair when in fact the quantization of communication is more precise than the continua of classical physics. The precision is to be found in eigenvalues. The probabilistic element is what causes the choice of precision utterance to be made. I may speak at random, but each speech must be considered and precise, like a quantum eigenvalue, a clear and distinct idea in the mind of the universe. We contrast this with the prevailing idea that the vacuum is a seething maelstrom of quantum uncertainty

Badgehot: Be very careful; don't let daylight shine in on your magic. Walter Bagehot (1826 -1877)

Tuesday 4 April 2023

Wednesday 5 April 2023

Tuesday spent preparing documents to restore peace to this house. Cognitive Cosmology and force: information exerts a force on receptive sources, which may explain the factor of 10⁴⁰ difference between electromagnetism and gravitation.

Feynman's path integral approach maps quantum phase represented by complex functions onto Minkwski space, which is exactly the opposite of what I propose.

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I still have a long way to go interpreting my picture but I think the important thing about the Turing network model is its vast potential entropy and the replacement of operators in Hilbert space with computers in Minkowski space which act as the front end to the quantum processes that underlie observations in Minkowski (= dynamic) space. I am at present working through cc23_quantum_field as a preparation for updating cc24_chromodynamics, and then I will work back up through 22, 22, 20 etc to get them to fit more closely to the final story. I hope that I can see some more light as I go along and find a way to map the computer network model onto the vacuum quantum fluctuation model that currently occupies the stage and introduces impossibilities like infinities and point sources through its adhesion to continuous mathematics. Vacuum is a word for empty space. My version of empty space is the divinity full of angels which we understand to represent the divine basis vectors which, taken as a whole, represent a long piece of music [stretching across the life of the universe] (sound) which can be Fourier transformed into a [transfinite] computer network [executing the life of the universe].

Thursday 6 April 2023

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cc19_fixed_points: Angels formally identical to vectors in Hilbert space, perhaps identical to eigenvectors. Aquinas, Summa I, 50, 4: Is every angel a different species?

Networks involve waiting for synchronization, memory and buffering.

Finding viable software in a Fourier transform of a Hilbert space is like the natural selection of finding an eigenvalue in a matrix.

Friday 7 April 2023: a.k.a. GOOD FRIDAY

Today we celebrate the idea that the Christian God gave themself up to be tortured to death to save the world from imperialism, in this case the Roman forces occupying Palestine. Conditions in Palestine have not improved. The country is still occupied, this time by the proxies of the US Imperium.

My ownlife has been on a similar track, although I have never had the slightest intention of sacrificing my life to the cause. I unwittingly sacrificed myself to the imperialist Christian heirs to the Roman emporer Constantine by joining the Dominican Order. This religious order was and is part of the Military Theological Complex that ran the medieval Crusade against Christian heretics in the Middle ages, a project run by the Holy Inquisition whose descendants are still a dominant force in many theocratic societies around the world.

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After five years the Order let me go for heresy, but the seeds of my life's work were sown. Now, 60 years later, I have woken on a Good Friday morning with the conviction, arising from much 'soul searching' that I have the answer to imperialism. The imperialists believe that power comes from above, from the creator of the world, a warlord who enforces their hegemony by military violence, sometimes, in its more mature stages, disguised as love and compassion. This follows naturally since deceptive propaganda is a lot cheaper and often as effective as military violence, probably the most expensive endeavour undertaken by the forces of evil on Earth.

My initial (and continuing) heresy is that power comes from below, not from above, and that the creator is not an omniscient god, but an eternal source of action, formally identical to the Christian God of Aquinas, which has come to be called the initial singularity. This entity is the source of discrete quanta of action which we represent mathematically as orthogonal vectors in Hilbert space, or in poetic language as angels, spiritual creatures distinguished from one another by their formal structure rather like the natural numbers. We postulate that like natural numbers there are a countable infinity [of them]. These beings exist before the emergence of space and time and are the

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source of the universe. They are kinematic, superposed upon one another and are equinumerous with the set of Turing machines to which they are coupled by forward and reverse Fourier transformations. From the computational point of view, they explain the network strucure of the universe.

The Fourier transformation from Hilbert space to an equivalent Turing network space is reversible and we can imagine that some of the Turing results are closed circuits representing stable groups which we can identify with eigenvectors (fixed points) and eigenvalues in matrix mechanics. Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia

We can now try to apply the "Turing vacuum" to the chromodynamic problem. What we are talking about is that the gluons and quarks cannot exist independently but need the complex little hadron ecosystem to survive and when the energy is available they will do it, creating a new hadron. All the screening and anti-screening is ad hoc rubbish.

Saturday 8 April 2023

On the one hand my theological story seems to be going like magic and on the other I feel that I have completely lost confidence in it. What is right?

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I keep going back to basics to find a solid foundation. A divine initial singularity creates a Hilbert space of singing angels. A Fourier transform turning this music into a logical network whose continuous elements form the fixed points we observe in this world, as I observe myself each morning waking up, getting dressed, drinking coffee and going to work. But is my heart in it? Am I so fixed on all the stories of the Catholic Church and nuclear physics that I cannot let them go. Revolution is a painful and uncertain process best served by blind faith and hope spurred by hopelessness?

I feel like a shrinking anemone, unable to stand up for my story which, although it seems better than the old chasm between matter and spirit, has still to win my subconscious seal of approval. What is missing? Where is my weak point? Lack of empirical and numerical verification? The answer to this might be to continue the shift toward logical and concise symbolic reasoning and play down the physicists claim to multidigit coincidences between measurement and computation which are possibly obtained by liberal use of fudge factors in renormalization, screening and anti-screening.

Maybe the time has come to seek help and profit from 'angel' investors, and aim for the cleaned up and compressed

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version of my story as cognitive cosmogenesis, modelled on cognitive cosmology.

Like most practical operations (in my erstwhile building trade, for instance) each operation is surrounded by an aura of possible failure, (a nail might bend or a load might slip) writing also has a failure spectrum when the choice of words and their order can lead to a failure of accurate communication. This problem is particularly acute in my chosen region of operation, the attempt to harmonize physics and theology. These two disciplines span the ancient dichotomy between matter sand spirit, so language is heavily stressed by the distance to be covered. My choice of insight, communication, logic and computation seems to be best suited to bridge this gap. Since it must be done, I will conitnue with the cognitive cosmology project [because I can] even though it is just an approximation to the picture I am trying to capture.

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