vol VII: Notes

2013

Notes

[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]

[Sunday 13 April 2013 - Saturday 19 April 2013]

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Sunday 13 April 2013

Passover over. No wonder the Jews find it so hard to face the modern world when they keep reminding themselves of these old fictions and ancient Rabbis' interpretations of them.

Monday 14 April 2013

Le Carre: Mission Song le Carre

Tuesday 15 April 2013

Feeling a bit bored because many of the old problems seem to be solved God is dynamic, the messages from God are the fixed points of the divine dynamics, quantum mechanics gives us all the fixed points we want, and so on, So what next? It would be nice to get some readers and a bit of response, but this will no doubt come if I keep on writing, so working on cybernetics, requisite variety and the guidance of the Church. The biggest problem is that my ambitions far exceed my abilities, but I am relying on the exponential power of time to get me there in the end.

Wednesday 16 April 2013

Sol Invictus (see page 96): The essential message of this book

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is that the Sun, not Jesus or Christianity is the source of life, pleasure and joy and people like Pell who oppose solar energy are the real Satan. Paula Kruger

Entrepreneurial theology

Solar theology - The Sun is our local God

How God [ie the Sun] made the world: Chapter 1.

The Sun is the only God that really delivers because it is the only God that really exists.

Evolution = revelation. The mysterious God of Christianity is slowly revealing itself through the evolution of more and more complex messages in the form of linked fixed points like myself and the plant Earth, rather a la Teillhard de Chardin and the divine milieu. So this is how we write Sol Invictus, from physics to spirituality, mot mysterious and mystical spirituality, but revealed everyday spirituality in our daily lives, showing all the mystical stuff to be politically and economically motivated bunkum. Teilhard de Chardin; The Divine Milieu

Thursday 17 April 2013

After weeks of early rain and fog the Sun, my favourite God, is shining. Of course it is always shining but often we have not been seeing it. My task is to capture the spiritual essence of this brilliance in Sol Invictus. Not a very euphonious phrase, but will do as a working title until something better comes along. One beauty of this God is that it is an obvious, observable and non-controversial

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competitor with al the other fictional Gods that infest the world. So the final chapter of the book might be entitled 'from fiction to fact.'.

A person is a message (per sona) as we see with government lobbyists who are in effect messages from industry to government , spicing their performances with political donations, often hidden by careful laundering,

Money and entropy. We proceed from simple to complex, action, energy, momentum.

Chapter 1: Act - experience.

Digitizing experience.

Hidden in the warmth and light of the Sun is a transfinite space of possibilities including life, which have been realized on Earth by the influence of the Sun. This book is devoted to elucidating the creative power of solar energy is an instance of the greater creative power of the Universe as a whole.

All human love and music come to us from the Sun guided by the laws of physics that seem to have been born with the Universe Van Morrison Tupelo Honey Van Morrison

The only things we can communicate about infinity must be expressed in finite terms to constitute a message.

Turbulence vs laminar flow. In a turbulent society we interact strongly, n a laminar society we all go our own way which happens to be shared by all the rest: a bose state?

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The Church is flying blind. It has lost contact with reality vs a series of documents written more than a thousand years ago.

Entropy (action) bandwidth / energy, structure / momentum.

The Sun is a creation of the Universe

The transfinite meaning encoded in the spectrum of solar energy.

The Universe is the operating system f the Sun.

The most difficult concept to get across - entropy and order, Cantor.

Old Sol, the God that delivers.

The Universe is suffused with potential, a lust to move, to become kinetic, to change, Most moves are a move, even the flight of the photon from the big bang till now, along a null geodesic 14 billion years duration [0 spacetime interval].

Friday 18 April 2013

Chapters of Sol Invictus - a first stab.
1. The Universe is divine
2. The Universe is mother of the Sun—Sun child of the Universe
3. The birth of the solar system, gravitation
4. Solar physics
5. Energy and entropy: Communication

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6. Science, fiction and experience
7. Dynamics and fixed points
8. Creation and annihilation
9. Complexification of peace network [evolution]
10. Cooperation and complexity
11. The Sun of God
12. At home in God

Quantum mechanics can deal with music, but we have to turn to quantum field theory when we want to deal with voice (this is, of course, only approximately true).

Saturday 19 April 2013

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Further reading

Books

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Augustine, Saint, and Edmond Hill (Introduction, translation and notes), and John E Rotelle (editor), The Trinity, New City Press 1991 Written 399 - 419: De Trinitate is a radical restatement, defence and development of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Augistine's book has served as a foundation for most subsequent work, particularly that of Thomas Aquinas.   Amazon   back

Christie, Agatha, Appointement with Death, Bantam Books 1987 'Mrs. Boynton is one of Agatha Christie's most memorable characters. She is an absolute tyrant who rules her family with fear and the possibility of losing her financial backing. She does not allow them to have contact with outsiders and even arranges a marriage for her oldest son when he seems inclined to seek out a bride. In a departure from the norm, Mrs. Boynton suggests a trip to Jerusalem and brings her family with her. They are accompanied by a family friend, two physicians, two ladies, and Hercule Poirot. Poirot overhears two of the adult Boynton children plotting to kill their mother and he uses this evidence as a beginning to investigate the eventual murder of the old lady. Everyone has a motive, as Mrs. Boynton was rude and obnoxious to everyone she met, so this case takes all of Poirot's deductive powers to figure out the actual murderer. This is classic Christie and as such it is one of the best Poirot books in the series.' Karen Potts  Amazon   back

Christie, Agatha, Sparkling Cyanide, Dodd Mead 1945 'At her birthday party, Rosemary Barton imbibes a celebratory glass of sparkling champagne and promptly keels over dead — of cyanide poisoning. The coroner’s verdict is death by suicide. But was it really? Despite the coroner’s conclusion, Rosemary’s husband, George, receives anonymous letters informing him that his wife’s death was a case of murder. In an effort to trap the perpetrator, George calls the original party together on the anniversary of Rosemary’s death. “Christie keeps her readers ... guessing to the end.” — The Times Literary Supplement (London)'  Amazon   back

Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, Penguin/Pelican 1996 Preface: '[Darwinism] is, indeed a remarkably simple theory; ... In essence it amounts simply to the idea that non-random reproduction where there is hereditary variation, has consequences that are far reaching if there is time for them to be cumulative ... '  Amazon   back

de Quincey, Thomas, Confessions of an Opium Eater, North Books 2003 'Thomas De Quincey wrote this account of his life and his struggle with drug addiction to both educate on the evils of opium and also to share the dream trances that he experienced while in the throes of addiction. This version by Penguin presents De Quincey's original version from 1821 and then his revision notes from 1856. There is also a short section of comments that De Quincey made concerning his Confessions from 1821-1855. The introduction by Alethea Hayter is one of the best I've seen in a Penguin book, and it really helps in understanding Thomas De Quincey and his writing style.' Jeff Leach  Amazon   back

Einstein, Albert, and Robert W Lawson (translator) Roger Penrose (Introduction), Robert Geroch (Commentary), David C Cassidy (Historical Essay) , Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Pi Press 2005 Preface: 'The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. ... The author has spared himself no pains in his endeavour to present the main ideas in the simplest and most intelligible form, and on the whole, in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated.' page 3   Amazon   back

Feynman, Richard, Feynman Lectures on Gravitation, Westview Press 2002 Amazon Editorial Reviews Book Description 'The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digressions and asides on the foundations of physics and other issues. Characteristically, Feynman took an untraditional non-geometric approach to gravitation and general relativity based on the underlying quantum aspects of gravity. Hence, these lectures contain a unique pedagogical account of the development of Einstein's general theory of relativity as the inevitable result of the demand for a self-consistent theory of a massless spin-2 field (the graviton) coupled to the energy-momentum tensor of matter. This approach also demonstrates the intimate and fundamental connection between gauge invariance and the principle of equivalence.'  Amazon   back

Hobson, M P, and G. P. Efstathiou, A. N. Lasenby, General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists, Cambridge University Press 2006 Amazon Editorial Reviews Book Description 'After reviewing the basic concept of general relativity, this introduction discusses its mathematical background, including the necessary tools of tensor calculus and differential geometry. These tools are used to develop the topic of special relativity and to discuss electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime. Gravitation as spacetime curvature is introduced and the field equations of general relativity derived. After applying the theory to a wide range of physical situations, the book concludes with a brief discussion of classical field theory and the derivation of general relativity from a variational principle.'   Amazon   back

le Carre, John, The Mission Song: A Novel, Little, Brown and Company 2008 Amazon Editorial Review From Publishers Weekly 'Bestseller le Carré (The Constant Gardener) brings a light touch to his 20th novel, the engrossing tale of an idealistic and naïve British interpreter, Bruno "Salvo" Salvador. The 29-year-old Congo native's mixed parentage puts him in a tentative position in society, despite his being married to an attractive upper-class white Englishwoman, who's a celebrity journalist. Salvo's genius with languages has led to steady work from a variety of employers, including covert assignments from shadowy government entities. One such job enmeshes the interpreter in an ambitious scheme to finally bring stability to the much victimized Congo, and Salvo's personal stake in the outcome tests his professionalism and ethics. Amid the bursts of humor, le Carré convincingly conveys his empathy for the African nation and his cynicism at its would-be saviors, both home-grown patriots and global powers seeking to impose democracy on a failed state. Especially impressive is the character of Salvo, who's a far cry from the author's typical protagonist but is just as plausible.' Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved  Amazon   back

Leaming, Barbara, Marilyn Monroe, Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1998 Jacket: 'What were the dreams and demons that drove Marilyn? How did a lost little girl, moved from foster home to foster home, transform herself into one of the world's brightest stars? What brought Marilyn, the incarnation of sexuality, together with Arthur Miller, the most revered writer in America, and Laurence Olivier, the greatest classical actor in Britain? Why did a woman who had the world at her feet fall into a pit of despair so black that suicide was the only way out? ... Barbara Leaming's biography is the first fully researched, objective account of the life and death of Marilyn Monroe.'  Amazon   back

Rawson, Philip, Tantra: Indian Cult of Ecstasy, Crescent 1988 Jacket: 'Suggesting as its final goal a vision of cosmic sexuality, Tantra embodies fundamental patterns of symbolic expression in a view of life which offers a uniquely successful antidote to the anxieties of our time. The act of creation is continuous: therefore sexual intercourse between human beings can be a microcosmic representation of the creative process -- a symbolic tribute to the great Goddess from whose womb, and through whose wisdom, all things in the Universe are manifested in Time.'  Amazon   back

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Divine Milieu, Harper Collins 1989 Jacket: 'Not a single thought in these pages is the result of computation; everything that is expressed is the fruit of the writer's inner life. In fact this extraordinary book can be read on different levels. There is here, as in all the writings of Father Teillhard, the expression of a scientist who takes delight in the descriptive method and the ultimate meaning of all physical exploration.' Karl Stern  Amazon   back

von Neumann, John, and Robert T Beyer (translator), Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Princeton University Press 1983 Jacket: '. . . a revolutionary book that caused a sea change in theoretical physics. . . . JvN begins by presenting the theory of Hermitean operators and Hilbert spaces. These provide the framework for transformation theory, which JvN regards as the definitive form of quantum mechanics. . . . Regarded as a tour de force at the time of its publication, this book is still indispensable for those interested in the fundamental issues of quantum mechanics.'  Amazon   back

Papers

Hussein, Jeylan Wolyie, "The Politics of Language, Power and Pedagogy in Ethiopia: Addressing the Past, Prest and Future Conditions of the Oromo Language", Austrlian Journal of Linguistics, 28, 1, April 2008, page 31 - 57. 'This paper deals with the politics of language, power and pedagogy in Ethiopia with a focus on the past and present conditions of the Oromo language. The paper evaluates the major historico-political factors that constrained the linguistic human rights of the Oromo during Haile Selassie's and Mengistu's Ethiopia, and reflects on the status of the Oromo language and the divergent myths and practices that have continued to plague the use of the Oromo language for education and development in post-Mengistu Ethiopia. . . . .'. back

Landauer, Rolf, "Information is a physical entity", Physica A, 263, 1, 1 February 1999, page 63-7. 'This paper, associated with a broader conference talk on the fundamental physical limits of information handling, emphasizes the aspects still least appreciated. Information is not an abstract entity but exists only through a physical representation, thus tying it to all the restrictions and possibilities of our real physical universe. The mathematician's vision of an unlimited sequence of totally reliable operations is unlikely to be implementable in this real universe. Speculative remarks about the possible impact of that, on the ultimate nature of the laws of physics are included.'. back

Pauli, W, "The Connection between Spin and Statistics", Physical Review, 58, , 1940, page 716. 'In the following paper we conclude for the relativistically invariant wave equation for free particles: From postulate (I), according to which the energy must be positive, the necessity of Fermi-Dirac statistics for particles with arbitrary half-integral spin; from postulate (II), according to which observables on different space-time points with a spacelike distance are commutable, the necessity of Bose-Einstein statitics with arbitrary integral spin. It has been found useful to divide the quantities which are irreducible against Lorentz transformations into four symmetry classes which have commutable multiplication like +1, -1, +e, -e, with e2 = 1.. back

Zurek, Wojciech Hubert, "Quantum origin of quantum jumps: Breaking of unitary symmetry induced by information transfer in the transition from quantum to classical", Physical Review A, 76, 5, 16 November 2007, page . Abstract: 'Measurements transfer information about a system to the apparatus and then, further on, to observers and (often inadvertently) to the environment. I show that even imperfect copying essential in such situations restricts possible unperturbed outcomes to an orthogonal subset of all possible states of the system, thus breaking the unitary symmetry of its Hilbert space implied by the quantum superposition principle. Preferred outcome states emerge as a result. They provide a framework for 'wave-packet collapse', designating terminal points of quantum jumps and defining the measured observable by specifying its eigenstates. In quantum Darwinism, they are the progenitors of multiple copies spread throughout the environment &mdash the fittest quantum states that not only survive decoherence, but subvert the environment into carrying information about them &mdash into becoming a witness.'. back

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ACU, Australia Ejournal of Theology, 'The Australian Ejournal of Theology is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary Ejournal sponsored by the National School of Theology and the Institute of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education at Australian Catholic University.' back

Albertus Magnus - Wikipedia, Albertus Magnus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Albertus Magnus, O.P. (before 1200 – November 15, 1280), also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic saint. He was a German Dominican friar and a Catholic bishop. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name. Scholars such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder have referred to him as the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church honours him as a Doctor of the Church, one of only 35 so honoured.' back

Augustine of Hippo - Wikipedia, Augustine of Hippo - Wikipedia, 'Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), Bishop of Hippo, in Algeria, was a philosopher and theologian. Augustine, a Latin Father and Doctor of the Church, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. Augustine was radically influenced by Platonic doctrines.[1] He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. When Rome fell and the faith of many Christians was shaken, Augustine developed the concept of the Church as a spiritual City of God, distinct from the material City of Man.[2] His thought profoundly influenced the medieval worldview.' back

Paula Kruger, Catholics divided over Pell's criticism of Greens, 'A division has emerged in the Roman Catholic Church over whether or not Christians should vote for the Greens. The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, warned Catholic voters on the weekend to be wary of the Greens, describing them as "sweet camouflaged poison".' back

Rolf Landauer, Information is a Physical Entity, 'Abstract: This paper, associated with a broader conference talk on the fundamental physical limits of information handling, emphasizes the aspects still least appreciated. Information is not an abstract entity but exists only through a physical representation, thus tying it to all the restrictions and possibilities of our real physical universe. The mathematician's vision of an unlimited sequence of totally reliable operations is unlikely to be implementable in this real universe. Speculative remarks about the possible impact of that, on the ultimate nature of the laws of physics are included.' back

Saint Dominic - Wikipedia, Saint Dominic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Saint Dominic (Spanish: Domingo), also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de Guzmán (1170 – August 6, 1221) was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers (OP), a Catholic religious order. Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers.' back

Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey (with Pee wee Ellis), back