Notes
Sunday 29 October 2023 - Saturday 4 November 2023
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Sunday 29 October 2023
cc22_network_QED flowing as last thanks to Feynman QED Richard Feynman (1988); QED: The Strange Story of Light and Matter
In the cognitive computing universe the waves are the interface clocking the logical proofs and the dynamics manipulating the kinematic logic, or something like this, as a replacement for the fictions of continuity and renormalization based on our notion of logical continuity. Counterintuitively we might think of the kinematics as the dynamic [moving] phase, like Feynman's stopwatch and [physical] dynamics as the stationary [observable] phase (revealed by Hamilton's principle) where the phase has absolute value 1 in the path integral picture. This is what we learn in QED which solves the renormalization problem and can be extended to QFT and QCD.
Wave - real - imaginary = real - imaginary [going around the complex plane] dynamic - kinematic - dynamic - kinematic. So perfect. Hilbert space was made for the world - this can be expanded to 22.3 from mathematics (imaginary) to engineering (real).
Stopped clock = observation, amplitude. Why is it a probability - because it is the selection of one face of a die [with maybe ℵ0 faces].
Anandi Gopal, SBS: "With such a dream I need to be courageous". Anandi Gopal Joshi - Wikipedia
Monday 31 October 2023
cc20_network_QED: progressing.
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Tuesday 31 October 2023
Wednesday 1 November 2023
cc22_network_QED finished at last. Now cc23_quantum_field. What is the idea of this - all things require annihilation and creation of fundamental particles flowing in and out of Hilbert and Minkowski spaces - Hilbert is the invisible connection between all the particles, and this process is associated with accounting with gravitational potential, Wilczek's metric field, a massless formalism.
According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unhinkable; for is such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time (measuring rods and clocks), nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense.
Franlk Wilczek (2008): The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces, page 97, Albert Einstein (1920): Ether and the Theory of Relativity
Spirit: Kinematic form without mass or energy, represented by Hilbert space, energy free motion [see more below]
Thursday 2 November
Feynman would like us to think that nobody understands quantum mechanics. Sometimes I like to think that I do and if this is true I should be able to explain myself. My starting point is the idea that Hilbert space is distinct from and prior to Minkowski space and because it is in perpetual motion it is the source of variety on the world, and so the foundation of the evolutionary picture that I like to paint. Feynman's discussions separate Hilbert and Minkowski space without explicitly saying so and he rarely says anything about the measurement problem which is where Hilbert is mapped onto Minkowski and gives us different elements of a spectrum of random different points in spacetime where things happen.
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Let us say that in quantum mechanics everything is normalized to the quantum of action, ie given spiritual elements si = Σi pi log pi = 1, ie Σi |φi|2 log |φi|2 = 1. A logical operation may be conceived in Minkowski space as a 'turn' measured by angular momentum and strictly normalized to 1 by its logical foundation [one revolution in the polar complex plane]. Somewhere here is the connection between physical and logic (cognition). This has to be made explicit on the page about QFT, starting from Planck. What is the conservation law embedded in the Boltzmann constant kB?
We can simply accept the results of empirically correct quantum calculations but interpret what is going on differently. The page on quantum field theory brings me to the crunch and now I am due, like the history of physics, to go through a long dead zone since I have little faith in the string theory and suspect that it is a mathematical furphy, but have yet to get real traction from my cognitive approach.
Two points that might carry weight: what appear to be false claims that the uncertainty principle and the zero point energy create enormous amounts of energy at the level of Planck length which feeds into the cosmological constant problem. This is the physics point. The theological point is that the claim, in violation of the physical nature of information, that a structureless immaterial divinity can be omniscient. Two starting points in the search for unity between theology and physics.
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Third, treatment of electron/photon interactions at zero distance leading to infinity, cured by renormalization. Above all I want to exploit the degree of freedom gained by separating Hilbert form Minkowski, but in the kinematic domain (see Einstein special relativity paper) and the notion that gravitation is the source of mass and energy, since it is self contained, mass is both the source and the recipient of gravitation. Electric field is electric field [attached to a massive particle]; gravity field is mass/energy field and does not need all the supersymmetrical claptrap about gravitons. Maybe this is the theme of the page about QFT, a big list of what is NOT, beginning with the quantum, the [kinematic] NOT operator,The real problems in field theory do not seem to be so much the detached interactions of individual particles but the very broad range of such interactions that have to be taken into account and summed or multiplied to get the final result.
The core of my new theology is the material basis of knowledge, intellect, love and spirituality.
Friday 3 November
The imperial powers took the indigenous world of pure light and beauty and converted it in a hearbeat to a world of sin and pain. We see it in the Book of Genesis. God created a Paradise. Within a few words Satan had led God to destroy it. The philosopher of Christianity, Plato confined us to a dark cave
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seeing only reflections of the beautiful world outside. There was a brief period in the Middle Ages when the divinity of Aristotle ruled, but that was in the midst of religious war which has continued unabated to the present days as empires us the glorious powers of the world to create weapons of mass destruction to realize their hatred of their enemies. The only answer, it seems to me, is to recognize the divine beauty of the world and use it to save ourselves while there is yet time to put aside the crimes of the fundamentalists.
What has quantum field theory to do with theology? It shows that the world is divine because it contains enormous possibilities and no contradictions thanks to its growth from a divine initial singularity by the foolproof process of evolution [and it provides us with an enormous variety of symbols to express our own reality, so procreating ourselves].
Pais Inward page 74: electron quantum of electricity, a mate for the quantum of light whose romance is quantum electrodynamics. Abraham Pais (1986); Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World
My problem seems to be that I am not really a party to a current debate about whether or not the world is divine. The divine and not-divine parties are so far apart that they do not emerge from their camps to argue with one another. The Roman Catholic Church is still centuries behind modern social mores and scientific commonplaces and the progressive and scientific world simply laugh at the theologians. Nevertheless I am thinking of updating an old article for Theological Studies which I wrote in 2009
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and submitting it to gauge the reaction. My desire to produce a book from cognitive cosmology is also aimed at producing a dialogue between religion and science.
The thing to do is to make a discovery. What is my discovery: the material basis of spirituality. my other discovery is that material continuity does not exist [in Minkowski space, though it exists in Hilbert space where there is no space!]. These two are connected by the fact that quantization is implicit in matter. My data is the history of physics, much contained in Paid Subtle and Inward. Pais (1982): 'Subtle is the Lord...': The Science and Life of Albert EinsteinSigmund Freud quoted in Pais Inward page 139:
You often estimate me too highly. For I am not really a man of science. Not an observer, not an experimenter, and not a thinker. I am nothing but by temperament a conquistador—an adventurer, if you want to translate the world—with the curiosity, the boldness and tenacity that belongs to that type of being. Such people are apt to be treasured if they succeed, if they have really discovered something; otherwise they are thrown aside. And that is not altogether unjust.
Saturday 4 November
Have discovered (see Friday) that matter is the basis for spirituality. Where do we go from here? What is the most important implication for a) quantum field theory; and b) human politics:
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ie Q: what is the point I should be making in cc23_QFT and cc24_QCD? A: The creation of the world and our part in it. The running of the vacuum. How the creation of matter is coupled to the creation of spirit, the QFT and QCD versions. Maybe I am getting somewhere at last. The fundamental evil of traditional theology is that it is all fiction made up by the intellectual servants of the ruling class for the benefit of their masters because both groups value their heads.
Ie matter and spirit grow together and this is the coupling we are looking for to build human spirituality (theology) on matter (physics). We would all be so much holier if we were well fed and housed and all have no reason to hate one other, ie we are all in this together and cooperation is king. We need loyal, not suicidal opposition. An image of this is the very difficult interaction between quantum electrodynamics, the weak force and quantum chromodynamics, the pons asinorum of the evolution of the Universe that ended the equivalence of antiparticles and made time go forward.
The 'Wigner effect' arises because both mathematics and reality deal in units, although mathematicians have long been seduced by continuity and infinity. God made the integers. The complex integer is a full circle [on the polar complex plane, something complete, ie integral]. Eugene Wigner (1960)
Pais: Inward:
'Man's sense of place in the Universe was evolving' (page 178)
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Theologians are all charlatans because they avoid evidence (Paul, Hebrews, Faith). Physicists, on the hand, measure and calculate. Aquinas, Summa: II, II, 4, 1: Is this a fitting definition of faith: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not?" (Hebrews 11:1)
I am so simple minded that it makes me happy to draw a neat tick. Small pleasures.
Pais (1986) page 193: Einstein Ann Phys 1906 20 199: 'We must consider the following theorem to be the basis of Planck's radiation theory: the energy of a [linear material oscillator] can only take those values that are integral multiples and hν in emission and absorption the energy of this oscillator changes in jumps which are integral multiples of hν.
My isolation has been extreme. In 60 years of theology I have never has a collaborator, and as I read Pais I see that the spectrum of strange ideas I have has in the period has had roughly the same entropy as the ideas thst flowed through physics from the middle of the nineteenth century to the birth of the old quantum theory and general relativity in 1915. I am still completely isolated, but see that my idea that matter supports the spirit may eventually lead me into the light.
The 'field' question is in Hilbert pace, not Minkowski space and this is the source of uncertainty
The letters on the paper are joined by the paper
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which maintains their order but the actual meaning is a Hilbert thing which exists in the minds of the readers and writers. Nevertheless the spirirt of the text is constrained by the order of the letters as we see in the Gaussian space of general relativity.
The matrices do the computations in Hilbert space where there is no problem with connection because there is no space but on the other hand all solutions are available for observation. Both matrix and Schrödinger are eigenvalue problems and eigenvector depends on its length (for probability) and the information content depends on angle. The uncertainty arises in the Hilbert space just as the uncertainty in our conversations arises from the superpositions of ideas in our minds.
This was a good walk (1 hour). I take heart from Pais who explains why physics developments take so long. I demand a lot of myself but must also take my time to get it right.
Kinematic moving form, dynamic moving force. Minkowski is more deterministic [selective, P] than Hilbert [variation, maybe NP].
