vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
[Sunday 8 March 2015 - Saturday 14 March 2015]
[Notebook: DB 78: Catholicism 2.0]
[page 111]
Sunday 8 March 2015
Work = transformation.
Monday 9 March 2015
Work, grace, metanoia. We now come to an issue which I have been avoiding for a long time, the relationship between reversible and irreversible processes, which is closely related to questions of creation and annihilation. Work, in a sense, creates. It is the process of bringing new fixed points (like myself) into being. But as I live I die. A recent brush with cancer reminds me of that and I can feel it as a set about my everyday building work, I am not as strong and flexible as I used to be. I have emphasized that the universal increase in entropy is an indicator of the creativity of the divine world, and this creation is an irreversible process. But I must also face the fact that while the increase and complexity is a good thing it can go way too far, leading to death by the accumulation of errors culminating in some fatal error. How do we deal with this, since the acceptance of death is a fundamental distinguishing point between natural religion and Christianity, which hold us to be eternal? Perhaps we need a final chapter, Death, to follow Metanoia, which implies the death of old ideas. Landauer: Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process
Tuesday 10 March 2015
Wednesday 11 March 2015
Thursday 12 March 2015
Friday 13 March 2015
The work of a powerful heretic.
A thrilling new expose of the human condition.
[page 112]
An explosive expose of the Roman Catholic Church.
Brilliant new divine revelation that puts the Bible in the shade.
etc, a new Google advertising campaign.
Revealing the greatest lie ever told.
A new God is born, breeding on the bodies of the old.
Radical heretic undermines [restumps] the Catholic Church.
Its time for a theological revolution / spring. [The Arab spring foundered on the old clergy]
The theological world is mired in mythology. Time to give science a look in,
World peace required theological unity. Natural theology is the only way to go,.
Saturday 14 March 2015
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Further reading
Books
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Feynman, Richard P, and Robert B Leighton et al, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume 1) : Mainly Mechanics, Radiation and Heat, Addison Wesley 1963 Foreword: 'This book is based on a course of lectures in introductory physics given by Prof. R P Feynman at the California Institute of Technology during the academic year 1961-62. ... The lectures constitute a major part of a fundamental revision of the introductory course, carried out over a four year period. ... The need for a basic revision arose both from the rapid development of physics in recent decades and from the fact that entering freshmen have shown a stewady incrase in mathematical ability as a result of improvements in high school mathematical course content.'
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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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Wigner, Eugene, Symmetries and Reflections: Scientific Essays , MIT Press 1970 Jacket: 'This volume contains some of Professor Wigner's more popular papers which, in their diversity of subject and clarity of style, reflect the author's deep analytical powers and the remarkable scope of his interests. Included are articles on the nature of physical symmetry, invariance and conservation principles, the structure of solid bodies and of the compound nucleus, the theory of nuclear fission, the effects of radiation on solids, and the epistemological problems of quantum mechanics. Other articles deal with the story of the first man-made nuclear chain reaction, the long term prospects of nuclear energy, the problems of Big Science, and the role of mathematics in the natural sciences. In addition, the book contains statements of Wigner's convictions and beliefs as well as memoirs of his friends Enrico Fermi and John von Neumann.
Eugene P. Wigner is one of the architects of the atomic age. He worked with Enrco Fermi at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago at the beginning of the Manhattan Project, and he has gone on to receive the highest honours that science and his country can bestow, including the Nobel Prize for physics, the Max Planck Medal, the Enrico Fermi Award and the Atoms for Peace Award. '.
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Papers
| Steane, Andrew M, "Efficient Fault-tolerant quantum computing", Nature, 399, 6732, 13 May 1999, page 124-126. 'Quantum computing—the processing of information according to the fundamental laws of physics—offers a means to solve efficiently a small but significant set of classically intractable problems. Quantum computers are based on the controlled manipulation of entangled quantum states, which are extremely sensitive to noise and imprecision; active correction of errors must therefore be implemented without causing loss of coherence. Quantum error-correction theory has made great progress in this regard, by predicting error-correcting 'codeword' quantum states. But the coding is inefficient and requires many quantum bits, which results in physically unwieldy fault-tolerant quantum circuits. Here I report a general technique for circumventing the trade-off between the achieved noise tolerance and the scale-up in computer size that is required to realize the error correction. I adapt the recovery operation (the process by which noise is suppressed through error detection and correction) to simultaneously correct errors and perform a useful measurement that drives the computation. The result is that a quantum computer need be only an order of magnitude larger than the logic device contained within it. For example, the physical scale-up factor required to factorize a thousand-digit number is reduced from 1,500 to 22, while preserving the original tolerated gate error rate (10 -5) and memory noise per bit (10-7). The difficulty of realizing a useful quantum computer is therefore significantly reduced.'. 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 |
Links
| Joan of Arc - Wikipedia, Joan of Arc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Saint Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc[ c. 1412[ – 30 May 1431) is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old. Twenty-four years later, the Holy See reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr. She was beatified in 1909 and later canonized in 1920.' back |
| Job, Job, from the holy Bible, King James Version, 'About the electronic version
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| Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia, Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili – 18 December 1878[1] – 5 March 1953) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the years following Lenin's death in 1924, he rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union.' back |
| Landauer, Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process, 'Abstract: 'It is argued that computing machines inevitably involve devices which perform logical functions that do not have a single-valued inverse. The logical irreversibility is associated with physical irreversibility, and requires a minimum heat generation, per machine cycle, typically of the order of kT for each irreversible function. The dissipation serves the purpose of standardizing signals and making them independent of their exact logical history. Two simple, but representative, models of bistable devices are subjected to a more detailed analysis of switching kinetics to yield the relationship between speed and energy dissipation, and to estimate the effects of errors induced by thermal fluctuations.' back |
| Le Corbusier - Wikipedia, Le Corbusier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, who is famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called Modern architecture or the International Style. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in his 30s.
He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout central Europe, India, Russia, and one each in North and South America. He was also an urban planner, painter, sculptor, writer, and modern furniture designer.' back |
| Mark, Gospel of Mark, back |
| Matthew, Gospel of Matthew, back |
| Peter Kirby, Early Christian Writings: New testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers, 'Early Christian Writings is the most complete collection of documents from the first two centuries with translations and commentary. Includes the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers. The "Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers" site is copyright © 2001-2006 Peter Kirby. Permission is given to link to any HTML file on the Early Christian Writings site.' back |
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