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Sunday 2 July 2023 - Saturday 8 July

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Sunday 2 July 2023 - Saturday 8 July

Kazakhstan or Mongolia: Eagle Festival: Aisholpan The Eagle Huntress: The Eagle Huntress - Wikipedia

Can I really do it? So far so good. page 15: Quantum amplitudes and logical processes are invisible; easy.

Monday 3 July 2023

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The purpose of uniting physics to theology was to enable the identification of the universe as divine so establishing theology as a science and eliminating the mythologized, autocratic sexist and antidemocratic features in Catholicism. I have been devoting a lot of attention to the establishment of physical theology, and perhaps losing sight of the political advantages of my plan [although God has to become physical to be observable and therefore a subject of science]. This has brought me to something of a standstill until today. The theological part of the job is done insofar as I have identified God and the initial singularity.

The question now is whether I should just accept the standard big bang cosmological leadup to the evolution of humanity, or whether I should continue along the lines of interpretation that I have outlined in the first six months of this year from page 15: Quantum amplitudes and logical processes are invisible to age 26: Conclusion—political constitution built on human symmetry These pages offer a different model of physics and cosmology while attempting to preserve the physically observed data. This is speculative, however, even though it does seem to provide a clearer exposition of how things work without, however, being able to provide actual mathematical and calculational details; . . . it may be seen as simply philosophical and relatively useless for the design of nuclear weapons and room temperature superconductors. It is not offering any new theoretical insights, just a new philosophical picture which may be sen to suggest that the project is rather useless, which is the pressure I am feeling now which seems to be giving me a headache. I just have to move forward gently, moving from handhold to foothold without slipping. [Nevertheless, the massive simplification provided by the heuristic of simplicity may simplify quick and effective computation of physial conclusions].

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Next cc16_network [?]. We start with the network atom sharing one bit of information via a process linked to a Hilbert space driving a one bit processor, with one bit of memory, a Turing machine with 2 squares on its tape copying from one to the other and back. A simple harmonic oscillator? No.

I have rearranged. Next is page 16: Potential + kinetic = zero energy universe Is this good? Zero energy = eternal. This is good, God is eternal. [The next thing we have to introduce is real time, real dynamics, making the Hilbert kinematics of the initial singularity into real space, time, mass, energy, momentum, the full panoply of Minkowski space, beginning with the photon, the null geodesic, mass, energy and gravitation, which all seem to be born in one event [logically connected]?

Tuesday 4 July 2023

Remembering my quixotic days of building a house in Crescent Head. No sooner was it finished and we moved in when she left me with our child [because the bush was too dangerous], a lot of work for nothing which seems to be the story of my life. 60 years of theological research and I have very little to show for it except the feeling that I am getting somewhere and hundreds of thousands of words on the internet. This is very much my fate. Work hard and then you die, due to very poor choice of career. But don't worry, be happy and press on regardless. So many great ideas fizzle in the end, like space ships.

[onset of] influenza [later diagnosed as shingles, a 75 year old virus springing back into action!].

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Problem 1: how can an initial singularity with no spacetime structurr bear all the entropy [energy] of the universe?

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Solution 1: Proposed by Feynman that all the kinetic energy of the mechanical particles comprising the universe is balanced by the potential energy of gravitation. Richard Feynman (2002): The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation

Problem 2: So how does this zero energy allegedly locked in a classical initial singularity which has no structure and yet appears to be bifurcated into potential and kinetic energy, which contradicts the assumption that it is featureless?

Solution 2: We therefore state that the quantum initial singularity is identical to the traditional God, a source of pure action and we may apply fixed point theory to establish that it introduces Hilbert space within itself. We then assume that Hilbert space, which is a pure kinetic space motivated by the creative power of the initial singularity becomes a source of variation capable of forming a Minkowski space with a 1, 1, 1, -1 metric which enables to the execution of quantum content through spacetime and the key to this process is the zero sum bifurcation of quanta of action into quanta of spacetime, that is quanta of kinetic and potential energy which transform in the same way as space and time, giving us the basic Einstein equation that enable the creation of the first energetic particles, photons, which serve as the carriers of quantum states in at least 2D Minkowski psace.

Problem 3: Why is Minkowski space 4D?

Solution 3: Because massive particles are fermions and obey the exclusion principle which is a version of the no cloning theorem, QED.

Problem 4: Why are massive particles spin ½ fermions? Does this have anything to do with mass and gravitation?

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Remember that massive particles have mass and rest frames, unlike photons which are never at rest [like the Hilbert space at the bottom of it all the big question is not why time moves but why space stands still]. We have to sork it out within the limits of the heuristic of simplicity. What have we got to deal with the transition from kinematic to dynamic? from Hilbert to Minkowski with the origin of photon the first real particle. The next step is massive particles. What is new here? Split spin. Can something happen as soon as we have a qubit, ie is the world so simple at this point that it has no choice - gravitation must be contemporaneous with the initial singularity - quantum mechanics, Hilbert space, variations, gravitation, potential, selection, one cannot have one thing without two things, this and that.

Newton worked on force. Lagrange brought it back to energy. Now we are looking to understand the world in terms of act and logic, following Lagrange's bifurcation into potential and kinetic. Part of the problem is how to turn logic into numbers and it would seem that it has all got to do with timing which is good because most sport is about timing.

What we are looking for is for a natural way for this to happen. 4D Hilbert to 4D Minkowski. Where is the idea, in my Hilbert brain, superposition wired into the synapses. I cannot see it and then it will come.

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Saturday 8 July 2023

The usual morning depression bites enhanced by post influenza [shingles]mental obsessions that are somewhat like nightmares that can only be eliminated by becoming wide awake. I have been dreaming of detailed computer screens that I struggle to operate until I open my eyes and see that there is nothing there but something like eidetic imagination, a new mode of mind that I have not experienced before. I am in a way relying on this little bit of disease to carry me through the walls that I seem to have enclosed my efforts to develop a new picture of divinity, a union of physics and theology. As always I remain optimistic and feel confident that after a few coffees and some breakfast cc16_zero-energy will emerge fully visible before me as another step in a life long story of self creation which seems to be the analogy of the creation of the world.

Heuristic of simplicity seems foolproof, and its power is maximized the closer to get to simplicity, ie the recognition that the source of the world is omnino simplex. Here we come up against the fatal contradiction in the dichotomy between matter and spirit. Aristotle and Aquinas equate immateriality with knowledge and so claim that God is maximally immaterial and therefore omniscient. Modern information theory tells us exactly the opposite - that the information carried by a point in space is equal to the entropy of the space and that entropy is a count of the number of really distinct states in the space, as in, for instance, the number of addressable binary locations in a memory chip.

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Richard Shaw on Norman Kirk: 'the purposes of state (to support and enable rather than to punish and prevent). Richard Shaw: The politics of ‘wide purposes’ – how Norman Kirk still speaks to 21st century New Zealand.

' Welch does not really linger on Lange, Clark and other Labour leaders - he positions Ardern as Kirk's true successor on the left. Kirk "cuts a swathe" internationally; so did Ardern. And her " kindness and compassion chime with [Kirk's] view that 'Sentiment is the most effective political base'."

As the universe began, so shall it continue: the heuristic of complexity invariance.

Every event has two faces, what it does and what it undoes, creation and annihilation. So we see the fundamental logical function of the quantum of action, not-p destroys p and introduces not-p in its place, just as a pendulum destroys potential energy and creates kinetic energy in its place through the mediation of gravitational potential and other operations operate in other potentials except the fundamental kinematics of Hilbert space and quantum mechanics that work without potential, gradient or force. So much of what I want to say revolves around the difference between kinematic and dynamic. Einstein gravitation is expressed by a formal kinematic process in an abstract differentiable manifold which becomes real when quantum mechanics is involved employing electrodynamic, weak and strong potentials that make collisions possible between quantum mechanically determined material objects, like my impact upon the Earth when I fall.

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Dreamt a little scenario, proton + anti-proton + photons, all built out of zero-sum bifurcation. Complex, so go back to the first photon, Minkowski space and the first tangent plane to the growing curved space of gravitation, unquantized, potential.

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Feynman (2002), Richard, Feynman Lectures on Gravitation, Westview Press 2002 ' The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues. ' 
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Nature Editorial (20213_06_28), A decades-long decline in extreme poverty has gone into reverse — here’s how to fix things, ' The United Nations has a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030; this was always ambitious, even when policymakers and researchers set the SDGs in 2015. It is now unattainable. . . .. Even more fundamentally, researchers are advocating a rethink of how poverty is measured. One problem with using an income-based measure is that it excludes people who are earning more than $2.15 a day but are still unable to fulfil their basic human needs. In 2010, researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, working with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), created the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). It is an estimate of the number of households facing deprivation when measured by ten basic indicators, including adequate housing, child mortality, clean water, sanitation, cooking facilities and an electricity supply. By this measure, some 1.2 billion people worldwide are living in acute poverty, almost 580 million of whom are in sub-Saharan Africa. The global figure is nearly double that calculated on the basis of income. The UN currently uses the MPI to track progress towards another SDG target: reducing by half the proportion of people experiencing poverty in all its dimensions.' back

Randy R, Potts, Fundamentally Fascist: A journalist’s bleak tour of the Evangelical Far Right, ' Trump’s entire project is to overturn both the sexual and civil-rights revolution of the 1960s and what’s left of the New Deal that preceded it. Sharlet’s writing suggests that there is an army all around us ready to help fulfill this project. He attempts to decipher the parables and sermons that hold sway in Ashli Babbit country and to understand why, for instance, the mob that descended on the Capitol was, for at least a couple hours, successful in taking it. The Undertow is an ear to the ground, recording the seemingly disconnected notes of what for many armed Americans is a coordinated symphony of revolution.' The Undertow Scenes from a Slow Civil War Jeff Sharlet W.W. Norton back

Richard Shaw, The politics of ‘wide purposes’ – how Norman Kirk still speaks to 21st century New Zealand, ' Denis Welch’s We Need To Talk About Norman: New Zealand’s Lost Leader touches on the social mores of that period, but dives deep into Kirk’s significance, now and still. Strictly speaking, the book is neither a biography nor an academic study of political leadership (although it contains healthy servings of both). It is something else: a meditation on both the state we are in as a nation, and on the other, better place we might be in had Kirk’s story had a different ending. In short, for Welch, Kirk is not the only thing we have lost. Since his death, something deeper, more fundamental has also gone missing from our polity. . . . .. The emphasis, however, is very much on Kirk’s practice of political leadership (compassionate, humane) and views on the purposes of the state (to support and enable, rather than to punish and prevent). Not for Kirk – or Welch – some arid conception of the human condition as one of self-absorbed utility maximisation. Rather, what animates both the politician and the author is a vision of people as relational, connected beings who want “someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for” – and who need a state for which those things are also the priority.' back

The Eagle Huntress - Wikipedia, The Eagle Huntress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' With her father Nurgaiv's help, she learns how to train golden eagles, and then captures and trains her own eaglet. Although she faces some disbelief and opposition within the traditionally male sport, she becomes the first female to enter the competition at the annual Golden Eagle Festival. She ends up winning the competition, and her eaglet breaks a speed record in one of the events. After the competition, she takes the final step toward becoming an eagle hunter by traveling with her father to the mountains in the winter to hunt foxes, braving snowy conditions and extreme cold. After some initial misses, her eaglet successfully kills its first fox and she returns home. back

Zero-energy universe - Wikipedia, Zero-energy universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The zero-energy universe hypothesis proposes that the total amount of energy in the universe is exactly zero: its amount of positive energy in the form of matter is exactly cancelled out by its negative energy in the form of gravity. . . . The zero-energy universe theory originated in 1973, when Edward Tryon proposed in the journal Nature that the universe emerged from a large-scale quantum fluctuation of vacuum energy, resulting in its positive mass-energy being exactly balanced by its negative gravitational potential energy.' back

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