vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
[Sunday 1 March 2015 - Saturday 7 March 2015]
[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]
Sunday 1 March 2015
Monday 2 March 2015
Tuesday 3 March 2015
Wednesday 4 March 2015
Thursday 5 March 2015
[page 110]
Friday 6 March 2015
This book has gone very quiet since I got to Melbourne on 13/2. Brain dead? Working on the Amazon ebook Natural Theology to bring it up to a level of quality I am prepared to promote. Jeffrey Nicholls
All my efforts are in effect propaganda, trying to change other people's points of view so as to change their behaviour in the direction of a peaceful, sustainable, beautiful world. Reading the news media every day makes this goal seem rather unattainable since there are so many ideologues and denialists about, but I feel that I have no choice but to proceed, partly for my own peace of mind, partly for my children, friends and the world in general.
A radical revision of the root of RC dogma.
Saturday 7 March 2015
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Further reading
Books
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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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Hopcroft, John E, and Rajeev Motwani and Jeffrey D Ullman, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation (Second edition), Addison Wesley 2001 Amazon Product Description
'This book is a rigorous exposition of formal languages and models of computation, with an introduction to computational complexity. The authors present the theory in a concise and straightforward manner, with an eye out for the practical applications. Exercises at the end of each chapter, including some that have been solved, help readers confirm and enhance their understanding of the material. This book is appropriate for upper-level computer science undergraduates who are comfortable with mathematical arguments.'
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Weinberg, Steven, The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I: Foundations, Cambridge University Press 1995 Jacket: 'After a brief historical outline, the book begins anew with the principles about which we are most certain, relativity and quantum mechanics, and then the properties of particles that follow from these principles. Quantum field theory then emerges from this as a natural consequence. The classic calculations of quantum electrodynamics are presented in a thoroughly modern way, showing the use of path integrals and dimensional regularization. The account of renormalization theory reflects the changes in our view of quantum field theory since the advent of effective field theories. The book's scope extends beyond quantum elelctrodynamics to elementary partricle physics and nuclear physics. It contains much original material, and is peppered with examples and insights drawn from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle research. Problems are included at the end of each chapter. '
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Wigner, Eugene Paul, The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Part 1: Eugene Paul Wigner, A Biographical Sketch. Part 2: Applied Group Theory 1926-1935. Part 3: The Mathematical Papers , Springer 1993 Amazon Product Description
'Eugene Wigner is one of the few giants of 20th-century physics. His early work helped to shape quantum mechanics, he laid the foundations of nuclear physics and nuclear engineering, and he contributed significantly to solid-state physics. His philosophical and political writings are widely known. All his works will be reprinted in Eugene Paul Wigner's Collected Workstogether with descriptive annotations by outstanding scientists. The present volume begins with a short biographical sketch followed by Wigner's papers on group theory, an extremely powerful tool he created for theoretical quantum physics. They are presented in two parts. The first, annotated by B. Judd, covers applications to atomic and molecular spectra, term structure, time reversal and spin. In the second, G. Mackey introduces to the reader the mathematical papers, many of which are outstanding contributions to the theory of unitary representations of groups, including the famous paper on the Lorentz group.'
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Papers
| 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 |
Links
| Jeffrey Nicholls, Natural Theology: A Synopsis of the Divine Universe, 'Most traditional Western theology places God outside the Universe. Natural theology explores the alternative hypothesis, that God and the Universe are identical. If this identification proves true, all human experience becomes experience of God and theology can become a real evidence based science.
The author has been thinking along these lines for about 50 years, and this book is a synoptic account of the story so far.' back |
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