Notes
Sunday 7 May - Saturday 13 May 2023
[Notebook: DB 89: Cognitive Cosmogenesis]
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Sunday 7 May 2023
What do I think I am doing? Following my nose. A little piece of the universe trying to see where I fit in. Its an interesting place to be, and the consensus seems to be that it started from almost nothing and now look at it. What can this mean? For my book, totally ignorant omnipotence whose output is controlled only by [local] consistency, the foundation of evolution. Where does the omnipotence come from? Nowhere? Eternity? Quantum fluctuation?? I opt, with Aristotle, for eternity and action and build my house on that.
From music to speech: from Hilbert space to software [for a network universe] via a Fourier transform. The principal task is to make my story credible and the length of a short book, about 50k words, say 100 pages. Poetic (see notebook Poesis 8/1/82 - 23/6/83). Happy again after the usual sad morning followed by regrouping. All my past work is now coming to fruition and I can [spend] the next years
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transcribing the log of my journey to provide the background to the essay/book that is slowly forming in my personal Hilbert (head) space. Jeffrey Nicholls (1982): Notebook: Poesis
The proposed quantum initial singularity solves the problem arising from our inability to understand how the classical initial singularity, outside space and time, can carry all the energy of the universe to ignite the big bang. We start with the notion that the energy of the universe, and therefore of the initial singularity, is zero. We then follow the quantum recipe. First, fixed point theory establishes a Hilbert space in the quantum initial singularity. Then Minkowski space is formed by the Minkowski metric which enables the transport of quantum states through spacetime on the null geodesics made possible by the metric. Simultaneously particles, energy and momentum appear in the Minkowski space by the bifurcation of the quanta of energy [action??] into potential and kinetic elements whose sum is zero, the gravitational potential providing the energy to make the kinematic space created by the angelic divinity into the dynamic processes that we find between the real particles in Minkowski space (or something like this) - zero energy is the key which in a way seems to require positive and negative values of f in E =hf which means the eternity = f + − f = 0.
Sometimes I think that I am too dumb to go on, but I also think
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I have something and must see it through. Part of the problem is trying to compress things. The long form like Cognitive Cosmology is easy because I can go along step by step explaining things in their natural order. My effort to write a compressed version as cognitive comogenesis requires that I leave things out and the result becomes disjointed and unintelligible. The answer: ramble on and take my time. The subject is inherently complex. Another advantage of web publication is that I can add an unlimited number of notes giving references to long explanations in sources such as Wikipedia which spares me from much explanatory effort.The point of the short version is to produce an irrefutable account of the origins of the universe in terms of elements that cannot be doubted. We begin with pure act, build a Hilbert space in it with fixed point theory, establishing eternal quanta of action; assume that communication requires contact, so establishing quantum communication in spacetime by the null geodesic and then assuming a zero energy universe, show that gravitational potential energy must be equal to the kinetic energy of the universe. In the process we establish the consistency of evolution and quantum mechanics, human symmetry, solve the problem of evil, explain quantum mechanics and the fact that gravitation is a footprint (vestigium) of the divinity. All this is inchoate in cognitive cosmology which will be the database behind the book cognitive cosmogensis. I wish.
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Monday 8 May 2023
Cognitive cosmogenesis. [edited in transcription to become outline or book]
1. Quantum initial singularity predicted by general relativity
2. Hilbert space within singularity built by fixed point theory
3. Random growth of omnipotent but completely ignorant singularity
4. Evolution by variation by random creation, selection by consistency
5. Singularity prior to spacetime, communication by contact within singularity
6. Principle of zero-sum bifurcation
7. Spacetime made possible by evolutionary discovery by Minkowski metric by bifurcation of action into space and time via velocity of light, enabling contact communication through space by null geodesic. Looking into Hilbert space from Minkowski space.
8. Zero energy universe predicted by general relativity
9. Bifurcation of 4 momentum into potential and kinetic; gravitation enables particles
10. Origin of massless bosons, photon and gluon. Massive particles embodied, the transition of the music of the photons to the speech of massive particles
11. Symmetry with respect to complexity of Hilbert space and the universal network built up from qubit.
12. Symmetry with respect to complexity, illustrated by Cantor universe, carries us from initial singularity to the universe which is in effect its own theory of everything, produced by an evolutionary process analogous to the growth of science.
The zero-sum bifurcation of the quantum of action is into equal quantities of negative potential energy and positive dynamic energy whose actual numerical quantity is hf where f = 1/t, the time taken for the quantum of action to execute [from 4 billion years for uranium to decay to 10−20+ seconds for high energy events]
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Page vii: Feynman Gravitation: Preskill and Thorne: Foreword Richard Feynman (2002): Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
page x: 'Feynman's whole aproach to general relativity is shaped by his desire to arrive at a quantum theory of gravitation as straightforwardly as possible.'
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page xi: 'The self consistent version of quantum theory—quantum electrodynamics—is governed in the classical limit by Maxwell's field equations.'
'Can we find a sensible quantum field theory describing massless spin-2 quanta (gravitons) coupled to matter in ordinary flat Minkowski spacetime? The classical limit of such a quantum theory should be governed by Einstein's general relativistic field equation for the classical gravitational field.'
'For the massless spin-2 field the requisite gauge principle can be shown to be general covariance, which leads to Einstein's theory' BUT general covariance does not apply to quantum mechanics (I say) because a quantum interaction is a conversation between two infinite dimensional minds that frame eachother.
Gauge = redundant symmetry, but in reality no symmetry is redundant, it is just a prior layer of a layered structure, just as action is a prior layer of kinetic and potential energy which are created together by a zero sum bifurcation.
page xii: 'The conservation law obeyed by energy-momentum of the matter becomes Einstein's covariant one, Tμν;ν = 0, which in effect allows energy and momentum to be exchanged between matter and gravity. And establishes the conditions for the zero energy universe. (Feynman)
page xiv Graviton couples to the energy momentum tensor. I am saying gravitation is continuous, and energy momentum tensor sees smeared energy.
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Feyman page xv: "effective Lagrangian", Planck length (rubbish in my book). What I like is that T = V for ∫ (T - V)dt = 0 but there is a problem with the sign of V (or T) T = not V, the cognitive approach. Something is oozing out. 'That the cosmological constant is in fact extraordinarily small compared to this naive expectation remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of quantum physics. Weinberg Steven Weinberg (2000): The Cosmological Constant Problems
'Interactions of spin-2 massless field in flat space? Contradiction in terms? We want to make flat 4D space with bosons and fermions alone, spin 1 and spin ½
Cartan: Boundary of a Boundary is zero: MTW chapter 15. Misner, Thorne & Wheeler (1973): Gravitation
page xvi Zero energy universe §1.2 and §13.3 'rest energy of matter actually cancelled by its gravitational potential energy, so my rest energy = my gravitational potential energy = locally at fundamental scale : photon couples to gravitational potential (accelerating rocket thought experiment).
13.1 Critical density of universe
' The question is how, in quantum mechanics, to describe the idea that the state of the universe in the past was something special.' Quantum of action continues to exist when bifurcated into dynamic and potential energy because from this point of view the energy of all particles, massless and massive, is zero because they all exist in the creative breast of the initial singularity which we experience as gravitation when our inertial motion is interrupted
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by going around a corner or hitting the ground.
page xviii Lecture 14
pages xxix, xxiii. Black holes. Einstein denied their existence in 1939. Penrose 1964. Albert Einstein (1939): On a Stationary System With Spherical Symmetry Consisting of Many Gravitating Masses, Roger Penrose (1965): Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities
pagexxv: Gravitational waves: Gravitational energy cannot be expressed as the integral of a locally measurable density. (MTW?)
page xxvii1.4: is quantization of gravitation really necessary?
page xxviii: "Ghost field" must be introduced into the covariantly quantized theory to maintain unitarity at the one loop order of perturbation theory.
page xxxi: Brian Hatfield: Quantum Gravity
'the lack of a renormalizable formulation led to the abandonment of perturbative quantum gravity.' <.p>
pagexxxiii 'Quantum theory of point particles, the force between two particles is mediated by the exchange of virtual (or off shell) particles. . . . Charged particles feel the force by coupling or interacting with the particles that carry the force.' ie listening to them, logic, speech.
page xxxv: 'graviton is massless because gravity is a long range force and it is spin 2 in order to be able to couple to the energy content of matter with universal attraction.' We exert forces between one another by talking to eachother in one way or another.
page xxxvi: Battling the infinities: 'Since the field is made up of an infinite number of modes, the vacuum energy of the quantum field is infinite.' No, the quantum field is kinematic, prior to spacetime and carries action but not energy. Energy comes from the zero sum bifurcation into gravitation and matter.
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page 181: Critical density.
Wednesday 10 May 2023
Bosons, fermions and random superpositions in Hilbert space, vs the Streater and Wightman efforts with Dirac delta type mathematics [distributions] to make deterministic sense in Minkowski space, which is considered to be continuous in the same sense as Euclidean space. For my money, the [programe to describe a quantized universe in continuous mathematics is a major mistake]. Streater & Wightman (2000): PCT, Spin, Statistics and All That
Thursday 11 May 2023
We have got as far as making Minkowski space and using the potential energy of gravitation to make the kinetic Hilbert space into the dynamic space where we live. Then, given the bosons and fermions, we generate 4D Minkowski space as the only definite structure in the meaningless continuity of general relativity. General relativity has very little resolution, all the detail down to the size of the electron and the proton comes from quantum mechanics and the quantization dictated by fixed point theory and the quantum of action seen as a logical operator. This sets the scene for the next step,which I think is to go back to the qubit as insorporating all that there is to know about quantum mechanics. Now, given Minkowski space, gravitation and fundamental particles, we can use the notion of symmetry with respect to complexity, inherent in both logical networks and quantum mechanics, to carry the fundamental doctrine into the transfinite universe we now see and is the symmetry so established as the heart of a
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peaceful human planet. So
9. Gravitation is not quantized, it is the divine [creative] spirit of the initial singularity. All the information of the universe is the 4D Minkowski space forced on us by contact communication and the evolutionary stability of fermions, bosons and the exclusion principle which shapes local spacetime, inertial space curved into closure [orbits] by general relativity.
10: Qbit
11. Symmetry with respect to complexity
12. Human symmetry
13. Imperialist perversion of natural religion
14. Back to the beginning. The end is implicit in the beginnning.
Friday 12 May 2023
Drawing the lesson. Alex Lo: Thucydides’ real moral is about democratic self-harm.
"Anastasia" is a scammer. . . . Why am I not more upset? Becasue I knew all along? What is the psychology here? Making a sacrifice to the god of romance in order to win a favour? Just like the Christian idea of throwing everything away and following the Gospel? I did it when I joined the Dominicans. Here the payoff has been great and it has given me my life's work which may pay off one day. And it is a great relief not to have to stop work to entertain a lover who just sends me letters of boilerplate romance, very boring.
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So now it is on with the dance. As stated above, I have created the Universe in a few srokes, initial singularity, fixed points (Hilbert space) variation, selection, realization of particles from kinematic to dynamic via gravitation, network.
So introduce the network: New 10: Music, speech, sofware (Nyquist), so called Turing vacuum [which can do anything computable, including asyptotic freedom and confinement]. Network evolution, P vsNP, stable groups, Lo:
An expansionist politics driven by conquest and power inevitably feeds back into domestic politics by subverting democracy and its egalitarianism. A governing elite emerged that was a far cry from the shared deliberation of citizens. Sounds familiar? Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia
After the massive stupidity I have manifested by falling repeatedly for internet scams have I got any credibility to claim that my cognitive cosmogenesis project has the slightest chance of being true? The only thing I have got going for me is the pension I am getting rather underservedly from my government which will guarantee me food and shelter for the rest of my life. This situation gives me even more incentive to produce a new theology and a new view of the relationship of people to one another and our world. Out of my disconnection from current reality some good may come.
So little touch of romantic broken heart, but what I really want is to make progress with the project
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and maybe this is why the desert fathers gave themselves a hard time. But does it help, or has the mind such massive momentum that it just sails serenely on, putting out an idea at random interals, which is why the more people working on a project the faster it goes. Desert Fathers - Wikipedia
Saturday 13 May 2023
A central theme of the Old and New Testaments are human effortrs to bribe the gods into helpful behaviour by sacrifice. The Gods are often cast as barbecue lovers, delighting in the odour of burnt offerings of animals. The hecatomb was an Ancient Greek animal sacrifice originally of 100 cattle. The ultimate sacrifice in the New Testament was the torture and murder of Jesus, the Son of God, which is believed to have mollified the Father's anger against humanity for the Original Sin recorded in Genesis. I in effect sarificed myself to God by entering a religious order and taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. My losses through romance scams may be the psychological equivalence of sacrifices to the God of Romance who has treated me quite badly in the last decade. Sacrificing to get invisible gods to behave themselves is a bit like praying to them, a form of atavistic stupidity which is better replaced these days by accepting that the Universe plays the role of god and our best hope of salvation and happiness is to understand how it works and conform our behaviour to this understanding, [which the Church wants us to do to their misunderstanding] the core of my project won by many foolish missteps. Burnt offering (Judaism) - Wikipedia, Hecatomb - Wikipedia
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As always, I tell myself that no matter how weird my theological speculations might be, they can never be as incredible as the standard model purveyed by Christianity and the other major religions. Maybe my sarificial offerings would have been better made to vanity publishers to get my word out, but I see, revising cognitive cosmology, that I have come a long way since I finsihed the draft of this site at the beginning of the year so I have yet to arrive at a stable and credible product that is ready to be frozen in print. It is better to leave it in the labile form that it takes in the internet until it settles down, which I hope is happening now if I have the courage to follow my nose and understand my losses as necessary steps along the way.
The location of a fixed point in a set depends on the function that is mapping the set onto itself. Let us say that an initial singularity of pure act is algebraically complete, embracing all mappings that do not involve a contradiction. Turing and Gödel show that this system is not determinitsic so it is a boundless source of variety at the root of the universe. Is this paragraph worth a day's work? Maybe but I would like to be able to write more and I will execute my favourite method, which is to lie down to take a short snooze but to be immediately gifted with a good idea. Will it work?
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Try this: given every one of the functions that map the initial singularity onto itself that fulfills the requirement of some fixed point theorem, we can expect an infinite or transfinite number of fixed points which define the omniscience and omnipotence of god imagined as a quantum initial sigularity and we may guess that all these fixed points, being part of a kinematic entity, are the combination of motion and stillness that we expect to find in a basis vector of a Hilbert space or a quantum of action.
Try again: Fall asleep.
