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vol VII: Notes

2013

Notes

[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]

[Sunday 24 November 2013 - Saturday 30November 2013]

[page 20]

Sunday 24 November 2013

We take the pure activity of the divinity as given, something about which we can say nothing, and instead we study its fixed points, beginning with quantum mechanics. To date we have been working on the assumption that the cardinal of the fixed points in the divinity grows like the natural and transfinite numbers, This assumption needs to be tested against reality, of coure, which means against physical observations and quantum mechanics in the first instance. The difficulty is [it is] now fourteen billion years after God began to differentiate and so it is difficult to find the root of the tree of fixed points. Must guess, and the guess I am mostly working on is the sequence pure action (1), energy (2), momentum (3) . . .

Monday 25 November 2013

Following two paths. One is to re-establish theology on the basis that the Universe is divine; the other (and related) is to establish that the Universe is compatible with

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divinity on the bass that it is constrained only by consistency, as we assume God to be constrained. This latter seems to be supported by the theory of quantum computation and the transfinite network constructed on the basis of quantum computation, assuming that all communication can be understood as a computed transformation.

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So we come around again to the non-locality of quantum mechanics and couple it to the continuity (non-determinism, symmetry) of gravitation. The idea while back was that the initial singularity is the ultimate hardware layer of the Universe, and since it has no structure (and so no processing) signals at this level are transmitted at 'infinite' velocity (since there is no distance, or even (possibly) time at this level. And so? Here we are back at the classical divinity, omnino simplex, no mapping and so no fixed points. Salart et al: Testing the speed of 'spooky action at a distance'.

The big question is what do the messages we are getting from the Universe (God) mean? And the messages we are not getting? How do they mean the Dirac equation? Because it fits the measurements.

Tuesday 26 November 2013
Momentum implies memory; Newton's first law
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Thursday 28 November 2013
Friday 29 November 2013

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The whole reason for complex numbers in quantum mechanics is the periodic nature of computation.

What is the intellectual equivalent of mechanical advantage? With my little 10t hydraulic jack I can lift a good portion of a house by substituting many metres of motion of a force of about 100N for millimetres of motion of about 100kN [more or less conserving energy as I go] Intellectually the answers to questionare found by considering the field of possibilities go at a constant rate of possibility consideration [like a chess program] the advantage comes either from long time or parallelism, many people working on the same problem.

The digital approach to quantum mechanics introduces probability through the relative phase of independent processors. A process may work if both processors are in hase and not work if they are out of phase, 'Inphase' and 'out of phase' depend upon the local resolution of the system. Two state systems, for instance, may be counted as in phase if they are within ± π/2 of eachother and out of phase otherwise, so in the case of relatively random phases they are in phase half the time and out of phase the other half.

Saturday 30 November 2013

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Papers
Salart, Daniel, et al, "Testing the speed of 'spooky action at a distance'", Nature, 454, , 14 August 2008, page 861-864. 'Correlations are generally described by one of two mechanisms: either a first event influences a second one by sending information encoded in bosons or other physical carriers, or the correlated events have some common causes in their shared history. Quantum physics predicts an entirely different kind of cause for some correlations, named entanglement. This reveals itself in correlations that violate Bell inequalities (implying that they cannot be described by common causes) between space-like separated events (implying that they cannot be described by classical communication). Many Bell tests have been performed, and loopholes related to locality and detection have been closed in several independent experiments. It is still possible that a first event could influence a second, but the speed of this hypothetical influence (Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance') would need to be defined in some universal privileged reference frame and be greater than the speed of light. Here we put stringent experimental bounds on the speed of all such hypothetical influences. We performed a Bell test over more than 24 hours between two villages separated by 18 km and approximately east–west oriented, with the source located precisely in the middle. We continuously observed two-photon interferences well above the Bell inequality threshold. Taking advantage of the Earth's rotation, the configuration of our experiment allowed us to determine, for any hypothetically privileged frame, a lower bound for the speed of the influence. For example, if such a privileged reference frame exists and is such that the Earth's speed in this frame is less than 10-3 times that of the speed of light, then the speed of the influence would have to exceed that of light by at least four orders of magnitude.. back

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