Notes

[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]

[Sunday 28 March 2004 - Saturday 3 April 2004]

Sunday 28 March 2004

Monday 29 March 2004

Tuesday 30 March 2004

Revolutions, like earthquakes, are transient phenomena which start off very violent as the old structure breaks under the stresses within it. The transient then dies down as the system relaxes into a new structure. So the early revolutionaries in any revolution tend to be armed and devoted to bringing down the existing system with but little thought about what will replace it. ; except perhaps some dream of a divine providence that makes certain that, as time goes by, things will get better and better.

It is possible for some people to improve their lot and others to fail. In many cases the rich and powerful attain and maintain their wealth and power by exploiting people that they can control. It is possible that some of the differential arises by chance, history, fate and other imponderables. Finally, it is possible, by communal effort, to flatten the distribution between rich and poor, thus lessening the revolutionary forces that tend to destroy the status quo. One sees that systems are most stable when they have achieved their maximum entropy and minimum energy. By learning how to measure the entropy and energy of our societies, we can steer them toward stability and away from catastrophic failure.

Can we say that meaning is inversely proportional to frequency, so that the Universe as whole (with zero frequency, ie once in an infinity of time) has an infinity of meaning. Here we are finding a use for the inverse transfinite numbers.

Wednesday 31 March 2004

Thursday 1 April 2004

Friday 2 April 2004

Saturday 3 April 2004

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Further reading

Books

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Stiglitz, Joseph E, Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy, W. W. Norton & Company 2010 Amazon Product Description ' . . . The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is “an insanely great economist, in ways you can’t really appreciate unless you’re deep into the field” (Paul Krugman, New York Times). In Freefall, Stiglitz traces the origins of the Great Recession, eschewing easy answers and demolishing the contention that America needs more billion-dollar bailouts and free passes to those “too big to fail,” while also outlining the alternatives and revealing that even now there are choices ahead that can make a difference. The system is broken, and we can only fix it by examining the underlying theories that have led us into this new “bubble capitalism.” '  Amazon   back

Tolstoy, Leo, and Rosemary Edmonds (translation and Introduction), Anna Karenin, Penguin Classics 2009 Amazon Product Description 'Anna Karenin seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empy until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike, and soon brings jealousy and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.'  Amazon   back

van der Waerden, B L, Sources of Quantum Mechanics, Dover Publications 1968 Amazon Book Description: 'Seventeen seminal papers, dating from the years 1917-26, in which the quantum theory as wenow know it was developed and formulated. Among the scientists represented: Einstein,Ehrenfest, Bohr, Born, Van Vleck, Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauli and Jordan. All 17 papers translatedinto English.'  Amazon   back

Papers

Shinar, Guy, Martin Feinberg, "Structural Sources of Robustness on Biochemical Reaction Networks", Science, 327, 5971, 12 March 2010, page 1389-1391. 'In vivo variations in the concentrations of biomolecular species are inevitable. These variations in turn propagate along networks of chemical reactions and modify the concentrations of still other species, which influence biological activity. Because excessive variations in the amounts of certain active species might hamper cell function, regulation systems have evolved that act to maintain concentrations within tight bounds. We identify simple yet subtle structural attributes that impart concentration robustness to any mass-action network possessing them. We thereby describe a large class of robustness-inducing networks that already embraces two quite different biochemical modules for which concentration robustness has been observed experimentally: the Escherichia coli osmoregulation system EnvZ-OmpR and the glyoxylate bypass control system isocitrate dehydrogenase kinase-phosphatase–isocitrate dehydrogenase. The structural attributes identified here might confer robustness far more broadly.'. back