Notes
[Notebook: Transfinite Field Theory]
[Sunday 28 December 2003 - Saturday 27 December 2003]
Sunday 28 December 2003
Monday 29 December 2003
[page 33]
Tuesday 30 December 2003
Our fundamental fact is that the Universe in which we find
ourselves is (at least to some extent) measurable. In other words,
knowledge is possible in our Universe. This knowledge is implicit in
human language and culture, and, we wish to show, in the whole
Universe. It serves as the metaphysical hypothesis within which we
pursue knowledge and knowledge of knowledge.
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| Crankshaw, Edward, Krushchev, Collins 1966 'Most of the material for my . . . book was gathered over a long period and in a number of countries, above all, of course, the Soviet Union. I cannot thank by name the many who have helped me, and those who still live in Russia and Eastern Europe would not be pleased if I did so. I am grateful to them all the same. It would be pleasant, if, twelve years after Stalin's death, I could acknowledge assistance from 'official' Russians; but from these, as always during the past 25 years, -- save for on startling gesture from Krushchev himself -- there has been nothing but obstruction.'back |
Feynman, Richard P , and Albert P Hibbs, Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, McGraw Hill 1965 Preface: 'The fundamental physical and mathematical concepts which underlie the path integral approach were first developed by R P Feynman in the course of his graduate studies at Princeton, ... . These early inquiries were involved with the problem of the infinte self-energy of the electron. In working on that problem, a "least action" principle was discovered [which] could deal succesfully with the infinity arising in the application of classical electrodynamics.' As described in this book. Feynam, inspired by Dirac, went on the develop this insight into a fruitful source of solutions to many quantum mechanical problems.
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