Notes
[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 22 February 2004 - Saturday 28 February 2004]
Sunday 22 February 2004
[page 52]
Monday 23 February 2004
One may perhaps see an echo of Kipling's 'strong man working
alone' vs democracy in Gibbs free energy equation, where we see the
relationship between energy (strong man) and entropy (democracy) in
determining the course of events.
Explaining psychological (and spiritual) function in terms of
'matter' is in the same league (peer set, equivalence set) as
explaining literature in terms of metal type. The physical substrate
(given minimal logical powers) is irrelevant (ie a symmetry) in the
explanation of spiritual matters. This is the point of 'Portrait of
an Abstract Man'. where the [same] mind exists in two substrates of
equivalent material complexity and connectivity.
Tuesday 24 February 2004
Wednesday 25 February 2004
A forces commitment is liable to be inherently unstable and need
continual reinforcement by sanctions, violence, etc. We may look at
Einstein's A and B theory as a foundation for the interaction of an
individual with the social field in which it finds itself.
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Thursday 26 February 2004
The world is a wilderness and nothing we can do can change that
because it fluctuates at all scales. No amount of damming a river
will stop the big flood that takes away all, but the dams may give
the peace and prosperity necessary to devise methods of dealing with
the big one when it comes : like putting all the capital intensive
stuff in the hills and developing the flood plain for agriculture in
a way that can not only handle floods, but preserve all forms of
diversity.
What we seek to show is that the structure of the transfinite
network automatically produces the mixture of order and chaos which
we call wilderness.
In the wilderness we are like chemists dealing with quantum
statistical mechanics, unable to determine outcomes but well able to
tune probabilities by managing our overlap integrals - COVER. Take
cover and survive.
Friday 27 February 2004
Saturday 28 February 2004
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Bjorken, James D, and Sidmney D Drell, Reltivistic Quantum Mechanics, McGraw-Hill 1998 Amazon Product Description
I'n this text the authors develop a propagator theory of Dirac particles, photons, and Klein-Gordon mesons and perform a series of calculations designed to illustrate various useful techniques and concepts in electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions. these include defining and implementing the renormalization program and evaluating effects of radiative corrections, such as the Lamb shift, in low-order calculations. The necessary background for the book is provided by a course in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics at the general level of Schiff's text, Quantum Mechanics.'
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Hanff, Helen, 84, Charing Cross Road, Penguin 1990 Amazon.com Review
.84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive." Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that works by Hazlitt and Robert Louis Stevenson would be coming under separate cover. When they arrive, Hanff is ecstatic--but unsure she'll ever conquer "bilingual arithmetic." By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. But only when FPD turns out to have an actual name, Frank Doel, does the real fun begin.
Two years later, Hanff is outraged that Marks & Co. has dared to send an abridged Pepys diary. "i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page by page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT." Nonetheless, her postscript asks whether they want fresh or powdered eggs for Christmas. Soon they're sharing news of Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, the firm's secretary informed her that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much." '
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Lee, T D, Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory, Taylor & Francis 1981 Amazon Product Description
'This unique book gives a unified presentation of the entire subject of particle physics, starting with a self-contained discussion of quantum field theory and going on with the symmetry and interaction of particles. It expresses the author's personal approach to the subject, and will be useful to beginning students as well as seasoned workers in the field.'
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Lonergan, Bernard J F, and Robert M. Doran, Frederick E. Crowe (eds), Verbum : Word and Idea in Aquinas (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan volume 2)
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Nielsen, Michael A, and Isaac L Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press 2000 Review: A rigorous, comprehensive text on quantum information is timely. The study of quantum information and computation represents a particularly direct route to understanding quantum mechanics. Unlike the traditional route to quantum mechanics via Schrödinger 's equation and the hydrogen atom, the study of quantum information requires no calculus, merely a knowledge of complex numbers and matrix multiplication. In addition, quantum information processing gives direct access to the traditionally advanced topics of measurement of quantum systems and decoherence.' Seth Lloyd, Department of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Nature 6876: vol 416 page 19, 7 March 2002.
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Sakurai, J J, Invariance principles and elementary particles, 326 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press; 1st edition (1964)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0007DRJG8 1964
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Schwinger, Julian, and (editor), Selected Papers on Quantum Electrodynamics, Dover 1958 Jacket: In this volume the history of quantum electrodynamics is dramatically unfolded through the original words of its creators. It ranges from the initial successes, to the first signs of crisis, and then, with the stimulus of experimental discovery, the new triumphs leading to an unparalleled quantitative accord between theory and experiment. In terminates with the present position in quantum electrodynamics as part of the larger subject of theory of elementary particles, faced with fundamental problems and future prospect of even more revolutionary discoveries.'
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Papers
| Bohr, Niels, "Atomic Theory and Mechanics", Nature, 116, 2927, 5 December 1925, page 845-852. 'THE CLASSICAL THEORIES. THE analysis of the equilibrium and the motion of bodies not only forms the foundation of physics, but for mathematical reasoning has also furnished a rich field, which has been exceedingly fertile for the development of the methods of pure mathematics. . . . '. back |
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| Aquinas 160 Summa: I 27 1 Is there procession in God? 'Our Lord says, "From God I proceeded" (Jn. 8:42).' back |
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Energy is converted from one form to another, but it is never created or destroyed. This principle, the conservation of energy, was first postulated in the early 19th century, and applies to any isolated system. According to Noether's theorem, the conservation of energy is a consequence of the fact that the laws of physics do not change over time.' back |
| Qubit - Wikipedia Qubit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'A quantum bit, or qubit . . . is a unit of quantum information. That information is described by a state vector in a two-level quantum mechanical system which is formally equivalent to a two-dimensional vector space over the complex numbers.
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