vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
[Sunday 1 February 2015 - Saturday 7 February 2015]
[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]
[page 94]
Sunday 1 February 2015
Brouwer's theorem holds in continuous, convex compact space. Brouwer fixed point theorem - Wikipedia
More general: Schauder's fixed point theorem: Every continuous function from a convex compact subset K of a Banach space
[page 95]
has a fixed point. Does this apply to God. God is continuous insofar as a continuum is nothing and God is absolutely simple. Is God a Banach space? Schauder fixed point theorem - Wikipedia
Banach space is a complete normed vector space. Complete is good. Metric (normed) is a bit dodgy. Also God is not a subset of anything, but we might use the layered approach to work our way asymptotic to God. Einstein in effect mapped God to a differentiable manifold. Banach space - Wikipedia
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity is the first glimpse of fixed points in God, ie persons (or personalities) called Father, Son and Spirit who remain the same while serving as sources of messages to the faithful. The notion that the Second Person incarnate of jesus Christ is the whole of the Christian message supports this position.
Abbott's Catholic government is intent on trashing the democratic social contract that has grown in place since the Enlightenment, no thanks to the fundamentalist Catholic papal monarchy.
Monday 2 February 2015
On the mystical body of Christ, or social structures in general It takes more than Adam Smith's invisible hand but it may be a good start when we realize that good social structure id the key to individual and collective success, as we can see in the buildup in the structure of the world from hydrogen to Earth.
The physical structure of a computer network gives a unique identity to every bit of data that flows in the network by assigning it an address. The beauty of an engineered system such as the internet is that t is complexity invariant
[page 96]
insofar as given adequate hardware the same theory holds if we are dealing with two bits or terabytes.
The lower layer provides addressing [hardware and software are relative terms]
The spiritual body of the community is based on each person having an inalienable right to some real property.
The scale invariance of networks also shows in the time domain, since the algorithms are all the same whatever the processing rat. So I stared at 300 bps and am not on 10 Mbits. My first computer operated at 1 MHz, this one at 1.5 GHz, 1500 times as fast.
Symmetry with respect to complexity connects the microcosm to the macrocosm , since the logical processes at each interface between ayers and devices is the same, It formalizes the dynamical processes of communication by buffering and writing static structures (self refreshing) that can be read later (and in non-volatile cases, often.
We live by promoting some things [and repressing others, a game of probabilities] Basically this implements the allocation of funding or energy to promotion and repression.
Complexification or increase in entropy requires the defeat of noise that would otherwise blur and destroy the complexity.
I feel good when I feel I have done something which I feel to be good, a good bit of work, a good gesture, good speech etc.
Comment on Shaun Carney: What ails Abbott is a symptom of the disease of government today
As a Catholic, Mr Abbott should know that God is our judge. Where the Catholics go wrong of course, is that when they talk about God, they are talking about a fictitious being that they have made up for themselves. The role of this God is to justify the divine right of monarchs like the Pope, Tony Abbott and all the other Christian monarchs whose dead hands have rewarded the rich and swatted down the poor since time immemorial.
The Christian God is false. The real God is the way things are. This God is revealed by science and we ignore it at our peril. One thing that science tells us is that stable systems have maximum entropy. Monarchies like Abbots have very low entropy. Their method of government is to use violence to reduce the entropy of society to the entropy of the monarch, a very unstable approach. Uneasy lies the head, etc. If the current government wishes to redeem itself, it must give up the notion that it rules by divine right and get with reality. It guiding star must become scientific democracy. The entropy and stability of a society is maximized when we are all have equal power. Shaun Carney
[page 97]
Tuesday 3 February 2015
Faith comes from experience, real or imagined, and scientifically amounts to a hypothesis conjectired to fit the data.
Faith and work. My faith motivates my work insofar as I find that if I obey God, ie do things propperly, they will work, like soldering a watertight joint.
So to New Yorker: My God: Faith and Work.
Abbott shows the ned to theological revision and then theological activism (propaganda). I am moving along this course. As I become more at home with the new doctrine the more I am motivated to propagate it, for my own safety and wellbeing, my family and ultimately everybody.
Australian eJournal of Theology (ACU) Australian eJournal of Theology
What is the next step forward? The next problem to deal with?
Wednesday 4 February 2015
I have spent a long time meditating on the hardware of the Universe, that is the fixed points in the divine dynamics. This has been a question for me for a long time. if the Universe is a compute system, what us the hardware that it runs n? Given a tentative solution to the hardware problem, we can now go into the layering and complexification questions culminating in the lessons for the design of human societies arising from these ideas.
[page 98]
Thursday 5 February 2015
Letter to the Pope: failure of absolutism; internecine warfare in the Moslem camp reminiscent of European wars of religion.
If we accept the evolution model, there was some epoch in our passage from lemurs to now when our imagination became powerful enough to lead us away from the scientific path. Once we thought that we were the beast and that all other species were just animals and plants. Since we have developed a scientific understanding of how living things manage to exist, we see that all existence is based on scientifically reasonable strategies for survival. All life is scientific, by which I mean it uses models to understand the data it is getting from its environment and so devise strategies and tactics for dealing eith environmental inputs, like the approach of a predator.
The Theology Company: sex sells. Most of the old religions deprecate sex but we set it free, subject to reasonable constraints to control violence, [deceit,] disease and unwanted pregnancy.
Christianity rejoices in the torture and death of a naked man. We are more inclined to sexual ecstasy.
Although the Roman Catholic Church makes much of Jesus being poor, hungry, meek, etc it is in fact a structure built to obtain and exercise power [ie control people].
PEER (neither can prevail) POWER (the powerful prevail).
[page 99]
The dark side: pleasure is dangerous, ie error prone.
Its time to ditch the fundamentalist Christian worldview. It is a load of fiction dreamt up by the ruling set to justify and reinforce their position, For this it has worked very well;. and we have a tri;e crowned potentate, the Pope, dictating behaviour to the wealthiest and most violent billion of the inhabitants of Earth.
The neo-liberal core value is wrong whatever it is. I think at its simplest it is that we are all on our own and should expect minimal assistance fom our compatriots even when we are having a hard time. This, it seems, goes with small government.minimal taxes and minimum government services.
The conservative parties are unscientific, not observing and responding to their constituents and despotically trying to enforce unpopular and and unfair policies. Chris Earl
Liberal Party latform treats people as a gas, making random simple interactions with minimal overall structure. It overlooks the forces acting on individuals through social structure, and the excessive force acting on many in the unstructured liberal Utopia.
From gas to liquid. Given that both gas and solid are restricted fro a social point of view, having low entropy, we opt for the highest entropy state, liquid (if we can dream up a method of counting that makes this true).
Are we all agreed that God is one, a consistent whole in which we can place our trust.
The Church claims to be Lumen gentium, but in fat it is a pall
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of darkness. Lumen Gentium
Throw ourselves into the arms of wilderness and hope for the best? Yes, wilderness is the region of maximum control, where communication is unconstrained, that is local. We come to understand this through the layering of the fixed points in God. Each layer is a new space built on the one beneath it by permutation [and selection]. Only computable processes are deterministic [and can therefore provide closure].
Have spent a lot of time worrying about physics, the physical layer of the Universe Now time to spend more time n the human layer, that s get a bit political.
The Role of Wilderness Survival, ie the Metaphysics of Evolution.
Increase in entropy requires noise reduction which is achieved using the increased entropy. The source of theology is divine revelation.
Bring Wigner into fixed points, ie why mathematics works to well for science. Revise and send to logic journal. [human software]
Mathematical relations are build on the idea that symbols are eternal forms, whereas in the real world all information is represented physically [and] symbols are usually temporary, sometimes with very short lifetimes. Others, like photon and proton may last forever of left to themselves, ie between creation and annihilation [ie can last for infinite time after creation]
Friday 6 February 2015
'Trades occur at equipotential, ie frequency matching, being in tune.
[page 101]
Perhaps the greatest scientific discovery of Western intellectual history was Aristotle's realization that the world is animated by pure action, the entity called God in Catholic theology - see Canon Law and Thomas' treatment of God. God is the source of the world, invisible because of the invisibility theorem, [in perpetual motion] but also visible. The ambition is to use the theory of computer networks to understand the messages we are receiving from God. Code of Canon Law 252, Aristotle, Metaphysics Book XII.
Since God and the Universe are absolutely simple, we can expect them to be easy to understand. The unmoved mover simply moves., but this movement generates fixed point which enable movements to communicate with one another, one movement establishing a fixed point which constrains another movement, so talking to it, and the action of the fixed point on the motion and the motion on the fixed point are some how equal as envisaged by Newton's Third law which we might understand as operating in an infinite dimensional space, each dimension being both dynamic and having a fixed point, ie a fixed frequency (velocity in time?[velocity in processing space]).
John O'Sullivan, editor, Quadrant.
The Papacy claims to speak for God and the errors propagated by the Papacy refute this position, If they are speaking truly about their God, it is at least partly (and therefore wholly) a false God.
What should liberal conservatives conserve?
Ekpo: Sensus fidelium: Finucane: 'the ongoing lived instinct of believers that grasps and is penetrated by the truth of the Gospel. Anthony Ekpo
[page 102]
'. . . the sensus fidelium originated with the Church. It is a reality that emerged with the Church and was already present in the consciousness of the Church before the expression of it was forged . . . '
'The sensus fidelium, however, is not a majority vote or a public opinion, but a charism of the Hold Spirit moving the Church towards the truth.' eg by looking where it is going.
Quiet Smith Offutt. Chris Offutt
Saturday 7 February 2015
Publish 2014 letters to francis with preface, intro and links [also metaphysical appendix].
In terms of profitability / fitness, the most productive process available to us is sex.
It is very true of the Roman Catholic Church that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Honore de Balzac.
A passionate attack by a little man on a great power.
True fictions last forever. False fictions have an expiry date, when their falsitude [fallacy] becomes obvious.
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Ashby, W Ross, An Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen 1964 'This book is intended to provide [an introduction to cybernetics]. It starts from common-place and well understood concepts, and proceeds step by step to show how these concepts can be made exact, and how they can be developed until they lead into such subjects as feedback, stability, regulation, ultrastability, information, coding, noise and other cybernetic topics'
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Churchill, Winston S, A History of the English Speaking People (Volume 1), Cassell Reference 2002 Amazon Product Description
'Volume I tells the story of Britain from pre-history to the Battle of Bosworth - the last of the battles of the Wars of the Roses in 1485 - and describes the strife and turmoil in the making of a nation. When this volume begins, tribal law was supreme; when it ends, Brtiain had become a nation and stood on the threshold of those adventures overseas which were to make an empire. Along the way we encounter a plethora of closely observed characters - William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great, Richard the Lionheart, Joan of Arc - and Churchill analyses the beginnings of Parliament, the Church and the monarchy with an eye as sharp as his legenday wit.'
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Churchill, Winston S, A History of the English Speaking People (Volume 1), Cassell Reference 2002 Amazon Product Description
'Volume I tells the story of Britain from pre-history to the Battle of Bosworth - the last of the battles of the Wars of the Roses in 1485 - and describes the strife and turmoil in the making of a nation. When this volume begins, tribal law was supreme; when it ends, Brtiain had become a nation and stood on the threshold of those adventures overseas which were to make an empire. Along the way we encounter a plethora of closely observed characters - William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great, Richard the Lionheart, Joan of Arc - and Churchill analyses the beginnings of Parliament, the Church and the monarchy with an eye as sharp as his legenday wit.'
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Cohen, Paul J, Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis, Benjamin/Cummings 1966-1980 Preface: 'The notes that follow are based on a course given at Harvard University, Spring 1965. The main objective was to give the proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis [from the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms for set theory with the axiom of choice included]. To keep the course as self contained as possible we included background materials in logic and axiomatic set theory as well as an account of Gödel's proof of the consistency of the continuum hypothesis. . . .'
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Conrad, Joseph, and Edward Garnett and David Garnett, Conrad's Prefaces to His Works, 218 pages
• Publisher: Haskell House Pub Ltd; New edition edition (June 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0838313043
• ISBN-13: 978-0838313046 1971 Amazon Product Description
'Conrad's long, detailed prefaces to his works furnish the factual background upon which he based his works of fiction. This collection of the prefaces provide the reader with the author's rationale for each story. An introductory essay by Edward Garnett, his editor, provides yet another side to the story of how Conrad came to write his novels, and, possibly as important, elaborates on the influence of the editor on the final result.'
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Dawson, Jr, John W, Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Goedel, A K Peters 1987 Jacket: 'This definitive biography of the logician and philosopher Kurt Goedel is the first in-depth account to integrate details of his personal life with his work, and is based on the author's intensive study of Goedel's papers and surviving correspondence. ...'
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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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Gourevitch, Philip, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda, Picador USA 1999 Amazon Book Description: (Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction) 'In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill each member of the Tutsi minority, and over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis perished in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath. One of the most acclaimed books of the year, this account will endure as a chilling document of our time.'
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Grozin, Andre, Lectures on QED and QCD: Practical Calculation of Renormalization of one- and Multi-Loop Feynman Diagrams, World Scientific Publishing 2007 Product Description 'The increasing precision of experimental data in many areas of elementary particle physics requires an equally precise theoretical description. In particular, radiative corrections (described by one- and multi-loop Feynman diagrams) have to be considered. Although a growing number of physicists are involved in such projects, multi-loop calculation methods can only be studied from original publications. With its coverage of multi-loop calculations, this book serves as an excellent supplement to the standard textbooks on quantum field theory. Based around postgraduate-level lectures given by the author, the material is suitable for both beginners and graduate students.'
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Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '... Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding'
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Misner, Charles W, and Kip S Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman 1973 Jacket: 'Einstein's description of gravitation as curvature of spacetime led directly to that greatest of all predictions of his theory, that the universe itself is dynamic. Physics still has far to go to come to terms with this amazing fact and what it means for man and his relation to the universe. John Archibald Wheeler. . . . this is a book on Einstein's theory of gravity. . . . '
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Newton, Isaac, and Julia Budenz, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman (Translators), The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, University of California Press 1999 This completely new translation, the first in 270 years, is based on the third (1726) edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. ... The illuminating Guide to the Principia by I. Bernard Cohen, along with his and Anne Whitman's translation, will make this preeminent work truly accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.
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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 Schroedinger'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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Pais, Abraham, Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press 1986 Preface: 'I will attempt to describe what has been discovered and understood about the constituents of matter, the laws to which they are subject and the forces that act on them [in the period 1895-1983]. . . . I will attempt to convey that these have been times of progress and stagnation, of order and chaos, of belief and incredulity, of the conventional and the bizarre; also of revolutionaries and conservatives, of science by individuals and by consortia, of little gadgets and big machines, and of modest funds and big moneys.' AP
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, The World as Will and Representation (Volume 1) (translated by E F J Payne), Dover 1969 Jacket: 'Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work, and, conceived and published before the philosopher was 30, and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.
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Tindall, Gillian, The Intruder, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1979 Jacket: 'A mother and her teenage daughter come to the isolated French village of St Lurent-La-Riviere, a village still scarred by the blood and fire of thirty years before. It was here that the mother survived her years of war, an Englishwoman alone in occupied France, an intruder cut off by the flood tide of battle . . . '
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Veltman, Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...'
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Papers
| Heisenberg, Werner, "Quantum Mechanical Re-interpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations", Zeitschrift fur Physik, , 33, 1925, page 879-893. tEnglish translation in B L van der Waerden, Sources of Quantum Mechanics, Dover Publications, New York, 1968, pp 261-276. 'It has become the practice to characterize [the] failure of the quantum-theoretical rules as a deviation from classical mechanics, since the rules themselves were essentially derived from classical mechanics. This characterization has, however, little meaning when one realises that the Einstein-Bohr frequency condition (which is valid in all cases) already represents such a complete departure from classical mechanics, ... that even for the simplest quantum-theoretical problems the validity of classical mechanics simply cannot be maintained. In this situation it seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron, and to concede that the partial agreement of the quantum rules with experience is more or less fortuitous. Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.' (van der Waerden pp 262-263.). back |
| 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 |
| Weinberg, Steven, "The cosmological constant problem", Reviews of Modern Physics, 61, , 1989, page 1-23. 'Astronomical observations indicate that the cosmological constant is many orders of magnitude smaller than estimated in modern theories of elementary particles. After a brief review of the history of this problem, five different approaches to its solution are described.'. back |
Links
| Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'When Innocent III's diplomatic attempts to roll back Catharism met with little success and after the papal legate Pierre de Castelnau was murdered (allegedly by an agent serving the Cathar count of Toulouse), Innocent III declared a crusade against Languedoc, offering the lands of the schismatics to any French nobleman willing to take up arms. The violence led to France's acquisition of lands with closer cultural and linguistic ties to Catalonia (see Occitan). An estimated 200,000 to 1,000,000 people were massacred during the crusade.'
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| Anthony Ekpo, The Structures of the Sensus Fidelium and Canon Law: Part I , 'Abstract:
In 1962 Pope John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council to which about
2,500 bishops were invited from all over the world. It was at this council, and in its
reception over the years, that the sensus fidelium was re
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discovered as an ecclesial
reality
and a theological insight that has characterized the Church since its inception.
The central question of this article is how the sensus fidelium is expressed and received in
the Church through the canonical norms and structures of the 1983 Code of Canon La
w.
In other words, the article investigates the sensus fidelium, highlighting particularly,
how the canonical norms and structures of the 1983 Code aid its expression and
reception in the Church. The article identifies canonical structures such as the pari
sh
pastoral council, finance council, presbyteral council and college of consultors, diocesan
curia, diocesan synod, Synod of Bishops, Roman Curia and ecumenical dialogue, as
structures of the sensus fidelium. It argues that, when these canonical structure
s are
used to their fullest potential, they can be useful instruments for the expression and
reception of the sensus fidelium in the Church.'
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| Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book XII, 'But since there is something which moves while itself unmoved, existing actually, this can in no way be otherwise than as it is. For motion in space is the first of the kinds of change, and motion in a circle the first kind of spatial motion; and this the first mover produces. The first mover, then, exists of necessity; and in so far as it exists by necessity, its mode of being is good, and it is in this sense a first principle.' back |
| Australian eJournal of Theology, AEJT, 'The Australian eJournal of Theology (AEJT) is produced under the auspices of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. The Faculty of Theology and Philosophy places a high priority on having distinguished scholars from the international theological community on its Editorial Board.
The Australian eJournal of Theology (AEJT) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published three times a year. It provides a scholarly forum for interdisciplinary, ecumenical and interfaith exploration appropriate to Australian regional connections with Asia and the Pacific, and with the wider international theological community.' back |
| Banach space - Wikipedia, Banach space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Banach spaces are defined as complete normed vector spaces. This means that a Banach space is a vector space V over the real or complex numbers with a norm ||·|| such that every Cauchy sequence (with respect to the metric d(x, y) = ||x − y||) in V has a limit in V.' back |
| Brouwer fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, Brouwer fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Brouwer's fixed-point theorem is a fixed-point theorem in topology, named after Luitzen Brouwer. It states that for any continuous function f with certain properties there is a point x0 such that f(x0) = x0. The simplest form of Brouwer's theorem is for continuous functions f from a disk D to itself. A more general form is for continuous functions from a convex compact subset K of Euclidean space to itself. back |
| Chris Earl, The truth behind the Liberals' summer of discontent, 'When the Abbott government was elected in 2013, it was with the slogan of hope, reward and opportunity. The immediate challenge is to return hope in government or risk an even bigger rise in support for minor and micro parties which have become a magnet for those disaffected with the direction of Labor and Liberal.
Tony Abbott is only the current symbol of this cancerous and possible out-of-control crisis in conservative politics. Its roots are firmly implanted in the narrow interpretation of Liberal values as applied by some of today's policy makers.' back |
| Chris Offutt, My Dad, the Pornographer, 'An unpublished Old West novel opens with sex in a barn, featuring a gunslinger called Quiet Smith, without doubt Dad’s greatest character name.' back |
| Code of Canon Law 252, The formation of clerics, 'Can. 252 §1. Theological instruction is to be imparted in the light of faith and under the leadership of the magisterium in such a way that the students understand the entire Catholic doctrine grounded in divine revelation, gain nourishment for their own spiritual life, and are able properly to announce and safeguard it in the exercise of the ministry.
§2. Students are to be instructed in sacred scripture with special diligence in such a way that they acquire a comprehensive view of the whole of sacred scripture.
§3. There are to be classes in dogmatic theology, always grounded in the written word of God together with sacred tradition; through these, students are to learn to penetrate more intimately the mysteries of salvation, especially with St. Thomas as a teacher. There are also to be classes in moral and pastoral theology, canon law, liturgy, ecclesiastical history, and other auxiliary and special disciplines, according to the norm of the prescripts of the program of priestly formation.' back |
| English longbow - Wikipedia, English longbow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Self longbows, widespread across Europe since Mesolithic times, were used in medieval Europe as a decisive weapon of war. Particularly powerful bows were employed to penetrate all but the best of contemporary armour. Following the English conquest of Wales (during which Welsh bowmen caused heavy casualties to the invaders), the English increasingly used longbowmen (including Welsh longbowmen) in their armies.' back |
| Honore de Balzac, Honore de Balzac, Wikiquite, 'Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
Part II
A variant, "Behind every great fortune there is a great crime," has appeared as a quotation of Balzac; but it may have originated in a paraphrase in The Oil Barons: Men of Greed and Grandeur (1971) by Richard O'Connor, p. 47: "Balzac maintained that behind every great fortune there is a great crime."'
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| Lov K Grover, Quantum mechanics helps in searching for a needle in a haystack, 'Quantum mechanics can speed up a range of search applications over unsorted data. For example imagine a phone directory containing N names arranged in completely random order. To find someone's phone number with a probability of 50%, any classical algorithm (whether deterministic or probabilistic) will need to access the database a minimum of O(N) times. Quantum mechanical systems can be in a superposition of states and simultaneously examine multiple names. By properly adjusting the phases of various operations, successful computations reinforce each other while others interfere randomly. As a result, the desired phone number can be obtained in only O(sqrt(N)) accesses to the database.' back |
| Lumen Gentium, Lumen Gentium, Vatican II Dogmatic Constitution on the Church solemnly promulgated by His Holiness Pope John Paul VI on November 21, 1964. back |
| Macquarie Group, Operational Briefing Presentation , back |
| Max Born, The statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1954 back |
| NASA, WMAP Mission Results, 'The Microwave Sky
The cosmic microwave temperature fluctuations from the 5-year WMAP data seen over the full sky. The average temperature is 2.725 Kelvin (degrees above absolute zero; equivalent to -270 C or -455 F), and the colors represent the tiny temperature fluctuations, as in a weather map. Red regions are warmer and blue regions are colder by about 0.0002 degrees.' back |
| Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin: "mathematical principles of natural philosophy" often Principia or Principia Mathematica for short) is a three-volume work by Isaac Newton published on 5 July 1687. It contains the statement of Newton's laws of motion forming the foundation of classical mechanics, as well as his law of universal gravitation and a derivation of Kepler's laws for the motion of the planets (which were first obtained empirically). The Principia is widely regarded as one of the most important scientific works ever writt back |
| Robert Garisto, What is the speed of quantum information?, 'We study the apparent nonlocality of quantum mechanics as a transport problem. If space is a physical entity through which quantum information (QI) must be transported, then one can define its speed. If not, QI exists apart from space, making space in some sense `nonphysical'. But we can still assign a `speed' of QI to such models based on their properties. In both cases, classical information must still travel at $c$, though in the latter case the origin of local spacetime itself is a puzzle. We consider the properties of different regimes for this speed of QI, and relevant quantum interpretations. For example, we show that the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) is nonlocal because it is what we call `spatially complete'.' back |
| roman krznaric, Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution, 'My new book Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution (published in the US as Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It) describes the six habits of highly empathic people, showing how empathy can be used to improve our relationships, boost our creativity and tackle social problems from everyday prejudice to violent conflicts.
Drawing on over 10 years of research, you will learn about human libraries, how babies can teach empathy, how our empathic brains work and discover the world’s first Empathy Museum.' back |
| Schauder fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, Schauder fixed point theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Schauder fixed point theorem is an extension of the Brouwer fixed point theorem to topological vector spaces, which may be of infinite dimension. It asserts that if K is a convex subset of a topological vector space V and T is a continuous mapping of K into itself so that T(K) is contained in a compact subset of K , then T has a fixed point.' back |
| Shaun Carney, What ails Abbott is but a symptom of disease of government today, 'When voters heard “no surprises”, “the adults are back in charge” and a pledge not to impose costs on them during the repair job, they believed they were going to get authenticity and straight talk from an Abbott government, compared with the ALP’s chaotic, PR-obsessed shenanigans.
Instead, what voters got was a 2014-15 budget that contained nasty surprises such as a Medicare co-payment. They got a higher education policy that looked to place extra burdens on families and graduates.' back |
| Zeeman effect - Wikipedia, Zeeman effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Zeeman effect . . . is the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field. It is analogous to the Stark effect, the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of an electric field. The Zeeman effect is very important in applications such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electron spin resonance spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Mössbauer spectroscopy. It may also be utilized to improve accuracy in Atomic absorption spectroscopy. back |
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