[ Sunday 6 November 1983 - Saturday 12 November 1983 ]
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[Creation - The Metaphysics of Peace = CMP I] = [DB20]
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Entropy and information are real. The probabilities of the wave function have a real bearing on the outcomes of events in the world and, if we are correct, the entropy approach will explain the energies and masses of all the particles involved without invoking any free parameters. The Feynman approach of diagrams seems to point to the notion of particles communicating with themselves and others; and the rates of communication must explain the energy of the particles. What is needed is a bit of close numerical work here.
Obviously,
this book requires a relatively long discussion of epistemology,
scientific method and related disciplines, and, like Lonergan, will
draw a large proportion of its conclusions from this sort of
discussion. Lonergan.
One may marvel at the fact that the electron retains its
properties with such precision, given that it is so small - g
measured to 1 in 1012, charge and other properties
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imputed precise to very much finer limits than gravitational
interactions, and therefore, presumably, to better than say 1 in
1050 (gravitation is 10~40 less strong than
electromagnetism and various equivalence principle experiments
accurate to 1 in 1012). The explanation of this precision,
from a quantum mechanical point of view, must lie in very high mass,
in fact the mass of the Universe. The mass of the electron itself may
be only able to account for a small proportion of the precision of
its properties. Thus we come into context theory.
Also: long term observations to establish properties of
fundamental particles, precision proportional to time, not as exp(t)
as it does with a decimal printer operating at fixed finite speed
printing out, for instance, pi to an endless number of decimal
places. It is of great theoretical interest to see where this linear
and logarithmic business obtains, and to see if the differences point
to special new structures.
Since we define violence as interaction where the proper protocols
of communication are not observed, we can speculate that each act of
violence causes and represents a backlog of communication which must
be made up if peace is to resume.
Saturday 12 November 1983