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[Sunday 18 may 2003 - Saturday 24 May 2003]

Sunday 18 May 2003

Monday 19 May 2003

To a grazier breeding is simply a matter of genetics, but in a human community it includes nurture as well as ancestry. Each newborn is consciously and unconsciously downloaded with the culture of its human environment, everything from language to the rules surrounding business, reproduction and war. In stable societies it is relatively easy to identify and codify everything a child needs to know, what we might call the classics, not only of literature, but of cookery, agriculture and everything else. The classics are highly esteemed since they are in effect imbued with the power of life and death. If one does not fit in, economic and reproductive opportunities may be limited and the misfit eventually eliminated. We may see this as a natural error correcting mechanism in a stable society. The public torture and murder of misfits served the dramatic purpose of guiding the more timid elements of society into the paths of righteousness. The continual roar of revolution in human affairs tells us, however, that our dynamical theories of human affairs must be able to deal with quantum leaps as well as smooth evolutions. The ancient stable religions of the world, in other words, should perhaps be driven by the evidence to so that they must make the same adjustments in the coming century as physicists made in the last. The aim of the website is to identify the transfinite expansions of the infinite quantum theory as models, at every scale, of the quantum jumps (or as we say, transfinite transitions) in the affairs of the Universe at every level from the detonation of a supernova to the firing of a neuron and beyond, in terms of both energy and action. We have, however a firm starting point, the physically ubiquitous quantum of action, measured by h.

MEASUREMENT

Mathematics Nature 423:124 8 May 2003 Ian Stewart:

"The early topologists proved that any surface is topologically equivalent to a torus with a finite number of holes."

Tuesday 20 May 2003

Integration is a wonderful thing in that it gives us time to fulfill the measurements. So deficiency takes a few months to develop and if we can balance inputs over this period, health will be preserved, Integration is achieved by storage, so that things that are in steady demand are available from stores, if not in real time.

Do people who compromise themselves (ie accept corruption) become filled with hate? We need a communication theoretical modelling of all the traditional virtues and vices.

The notion that wilderness us that wilderness is the tamest form of life remains true to the same extent even if we practice insurance for no matter how widely we spread our risk, there is a finite chance (?) of an event coming along (like the hyperspace freeway) . . .

Wednesday 21 May 2003

On the way to work: Once again the coordinate system has dissolved. I know the thought is there somewhere, and it crossed my mind during the day, but where is it now? Wait. It was the idea that the measure of tolerance can be a time constant. The longer one can be happy with a situation, the more tolerant one is

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of it. On the other hand, intolerance and more instant rejection can go together. Hence the importance if the eternal view of god, which tolerates everything without discrimination [except unstable structures collapse]

Already, like other bright ideas, this one begins to fade (decohere?) as other pictures enter the superposition. We must include space also into our measure of tolerance. One may tolerate an error in a low intensity relationship for a long time, whereas in a high intensity relationship an error may lead quickly to trouble. We measure intensity by bandwidth, spatial (momentum) temporal (energy)

energy² = momentum² + mass² (c = 1)

Why the Pythagorean relationship? God is one and many. Orthogonal processes unite seamlessly into the divine whole. How? Orthogonality is a property of a reference system which enables us to treat multiple features of reality in the same matrix, but is this how the diversity of nature is encoded?

Thursday 22 May 2003

Spacetime serves as an addressing system accurate to one quantum of action ie (?) function of the Planck length (momentum) and the Planck time (energy). It is this system which distinguishes otherwise identical particles like electrons. From this point of view it looks very much like the transfinite network. In this network, many identical Turing machines operate, ie many identical particles separated by their different locations in global memory. This, in a sense, makes spacetime the high (spiritual) end of the addressing scale ie it provides the most significant 'tits' (transfinite digits).

This (if true) is a neat inversion of the old idea that space, matter and time are as unspiritual as it is possible to get. Evidence. The evidence for the model, if ever it leaves

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the factory.

This idea makes spacetime the most continuous thing there is, although quantized in its operation, the whole of spacetime acts as one seamless entity. It is, nevertheless quantized at every scale, from Planck's constant to ℵ₀.h.

Han Suyin: Crippled Tree. Suyin

'It was on this railway issue that imperious consciousness of change began to solidify, assembling into a mental structure capable of being handled, capable of specific demands, a concrete practical issue demanding a positive, inescapable answer. And it is this crystallization, this specification into concepts easily handled by everyone, peasant as well as official, which precedes a revolution. And this psychological pre-revolutionary mental state is a phenomenon least understood of all.

'Truth is truth." But the real truth is the superposition of all possible permutations of the circumstances that go into the structure of the event. So we say a state ax + by, x, y are bases, a² + b² = 1.

Pythagoras theorem has something to do with the normalization of the Universe. This normalization comes from the fullness and quantization of the Universe.

Friday 23 May 2003

Saturday 24 May 2003

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Edenhofer, Ottmar, et al, "Climate policies will stimulate technology development", Nature, 453, 7192, 8 May 2008, page 155. 'It is most unlikely, however, that technology will be frozen. Over the past 30 years the decrease in energy intensity has been 1.1% a year -- well above the 0.6% a year assumed in 75% of the scenarios assessed by the IPCC.'. back

Shannon, Claude E, "Communication in the Presence of Noise", Proceedings of the IEEE, 86, 2, February 1998, page 447-457. Reprint of Shannon, Claude E. "Communication in the Presence of Noise." Proceedings of the IEEE, 37 (January 1949) : 10-21. 'A method is developed for representing any communication system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are points in two function spaces, and the modulation process is a mapping of one space into the other. Using this representation, a number of results in communication theory are deduced concerning expansion and compression of bandwidth and the threshold effect. Formulas are found for the maximum rate of transmission of binary digits over a system when the signal is perturbed by various types of noise. Some of the properties of "ideal" systems which transmit this maximum rate are discussed. The equivalent number of binary digits per second of certain information sources is calculated.' . back

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