vol VII: Notes

1999

Notes

[Sunday 13 June 1999 - Saturday 19 June 1999]

[Notebook BOOK 4/5/94 DB 50]

Sunday 13 June 1999

Monday 14 June 1999

Tuesday 15 June 1999

Wednesday 16 June 1999

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Thursday 17 June 1999

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The big bang expansion of the Universe can only take place in the context of meaning: it is meaning not matter that differentiates otherwise identical individuals. Continuous creation means that new meanings create new particles. . . .

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On the existence of identical particles.

POSSESS = CONTAIN: If I possess you you are a member of me, and NOT therefore a PEER

EQUALITY = Peerage.

Humility: we are plodding humans, but we also have the ability for infinite transcendence. But we get a bit carried away with the claim to be infinitely superior to other animals and refuse

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to relate to them, only to some god of our own creation which is outside the natural Universe.

On the many worlds model/interpretation of quantum mechanics. Everett III

Each vector in a countable Hilbert space is a discrete representation of a function.

ZONE OF COHERENCE = STRING OF ARGUMENT = PROOF/CAUSALITY/CONSISTENCY

How do we start QM? : Interpretations Copenhagen/many worlds/Feynman

Our best guesses at the nature of the world are represented in the language of quantum field theory (QFT). . . .

The plot thickens - sol -> gel; liquid -> glass.

UNITY <=> COMMUNICATION <=> DIVERSITY

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Communication simultaneously unites the hardware and diversifies the software.

Perry Mason: 'get all the facts and then apply the law'

Friday 18 June 1999

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On the theory of everything.

Ideas current in the mainstream of the physics community are founded on the general theory of relativity, QFT and mathematics.

Formalism is interaction free, and so 'first order'. There are no physical interactions between the elements of a formalism

Observe the difference.

Logic is procedural law.

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Can we get the baby to come out today? A period of dilation in the output channel followed by the delivery of a genotype clothed in a phenotype. The phenotype interprets the meaning of the genotype in physically interacting symbols. At the physical level any machine must . . .

We take Deutsch and make him transfinite. Deutsch

INSIGHT = REVELATION = VISION OF GOD

Every insight shows us more of the the nature of god.

Newtonian, quantum, Lagrangian.

Principle of minimum action

LIDDY [G Gordon, Will] Fighting mental state kill or be killed. This ultimately has to be my attitude to the Roman Catholic Church. Insofar as it is killing humanity and the world, it needs death. Liddy

Saturday 19 June 1999

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Further reading

Books

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Deutsch, David, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and its Implications, Allen Lane Penguin Press 1997 Jacket: 'Quantum physics, evolution, computation and knowledge - these four strands of scientific theory and philosophy have, until now, remained incomplete explanations of the way the universe works. ... Oxford scholar DD shows how they are so closely intertwined that we cannot properly understand any one of them without reference to the other three. ...'  Amazon   back

Everett III, Hugh, and Bryce S Dewitt, Neill Graham (editors), The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press 1973 Jacket: 'A novel interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed in brief form by Hugh Everett in 1957, forms the nucleus around which this book has developed. The volume contains Dr Everett's short paper from 1957, "'Relativge State' formulation of quantum mechanics" and a far longer exposition of his interpretation entitled "The Theory of the Universal Wave Function" never before published. In addition other papers by Wheeler, DeWitt, Graham, Cooper and van Vechten provide further discussion of the same theme. Together they constitute virtually the entire world output of scholarly commentary on the Everett interpretation.'  Amazon   back

Liddy, G Gordon, Will: The Autobiography of G Gordon Liddy, St. Martin's Press Amazon editorial review: 'G. Gordon Liddy's autobiography is as spookily fascinating now as it was in 1980, especially the memorably unvarnished depiction of his early years. Listening with admiration to Adolf Hitler on the radio, seeking to free himself from "disabling emotionalism" by slaughtering chickens, young Gordon must have made quite an impression on the neighbors. The army, the F.B.I., the Watergate scandal, and jail are covered with equal pungency: you have to admire the author's ferocious candor, whatever you think of his values. This new edition features a 1996 postscript as combative as the main text.'  Amazon   back

Peacock, John A, Cosmological Physics, Cambridge University Press 1999 Nature Book Review: 'The intermingling of observational detail and fundamental theory has made cosmology an exceptionally rich, exciting and controversial science. Students in the field — whether observers or particle theorists — are expected to be acquainted with matters ranging from the Supernova Ia distance scale, Big Bang nucleosynthesis theory, scale-free quantum fluctuations during inflation, the galaxy two-point correlation function, particle theory candidates for the dark matter, and the star formation history of the Universe. Several general science books, conference proceedings and specialized monographs have addressed these issues. Peacock's Cosmological Physics ambitiously fills the void for introducing students with a strong undergraduate background in physics to the entire world of current physical cosmology. The majestic sweep of his discussion of this vast terrain is awesome, and is bound to capture the imagination of most students.' Ray Carlberg, Nature 399:322  Amazon   back

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Phenomenon of Man, Collins 1965 Sir Julian Huxley, Introduction: 'We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth's immense future, and can realise more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love. That, it seems to me, is the distillation of the Phenomenon of Man.'   Amazon   back

Links

Mach's principle - Wikipedia, Mach's principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In theoretical physics, particularly in discussions of gravitation theories, Mach's principle (or Mach's conjecture[1]) is the name given by Einstein to an imprecise hypothesis often credited to the physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. The idea is that the local motion of a rotating reference frame is determined by the large scale distribution of matter, as exemplified by this anecdote: You are standing in a field looking at the stars. Your arms are resting freely at your side, and you see that the distant stars are not moving. Now start spinning. The stars are whirling around you and your arms are pulled away from your body. Why should your arms be pulled away when the stars are whirling? Why should they be dangling freely when the stars don't move?' back

Sol Invictus - Wikipedia, Sol Invictus - Wikipedia, the feee encyclopedia, 'Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun") was the official sun god of the later Roman Empire and a patron of soldiers. In 274 the Roman emperor Aurelian made it an official cult alongside the traditional Roman cults. Scholars disagree whether the new deity was a refoundation of the ancient Latin cult of Sol,[1] a revival of the cult of Elagabalus[2] or completely new.[3] The god was favored by emperors after Aurelian and appeared on their coins until Constantine.[4] The last inscription referring to Sol Invictus dates to 387 AD[5] and there were enough devotees in the 5th century that Augustine found it necessary to preach against them.' back

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