"natural theology > notes > 2015 > Sunday 27 September "

vol VII: Notes

2015

Notes

[Sunday 27 September 2015 - Saturday 3 October 2015]

[Notebook: DB 79: Galileo Wins]

[page 91]

Sunday 27 September 2015

Next step is to introduce another degree of freedom by introducing another circle group so that we can set up something like Maxwell's equations with two coupled groups, one acting as electricity, the other as magnetism and having a relationship to one another like potential and kinetic energy. We may be able to describe this by one or other Pauli matrix in a 2D space something like the qubit with the normalization of the qubit corresponding to the conservation of energy. This brings us from the 1-space of gravitation [energy/time] to the 2-space of binary logic. Put two of these together to get

[page 92]

4-space. All fiction, but, since we are trying to get a view of the fixed points of a divinity constrained only by consistency it may be a useful exploratory adventure even if it leads to a dead end. From the point of view of getting this done before I die, I have used up ¾ year of a the 30 years I imagine I have to do the job.

Robert Mickens Made a caustic comment about the Papacy, see Mickens. Robert Mickens

The 2D photon is stationary because there is nowhere for it to go. Photons do not learn to travel at the velocity of light until we get to 4D space. How does gravitation cause the growth of space? a) in dimension; b) in size. Particles are built on a foundation of 4D space?

Going through the usual routine: will this ever get anywhere? I feel that my life could have been better spent by fitting more precisely into the social expectations that surrounded me and now that I am well past retirement age and relatively poor that I am grasping at straws, trying to make the best of a bad job, feeling quite strongly that my quest is hopeless. This feeling does not apply to the grand thesis that the universe is divine which seems unassailable and greatly to be preferred to the alternatives provided by traditional theologies and religions, but to my more detailed quest to see that a divine world can be made consistent with ancient beliefs through the logical assumption that the world is limited only by self consistency and has not been designed by an omniscient and omnipotent creator outside itself. This has led me to the idea that mathematics and theology are isomorphic in that the only requirement for mathematical existence is symbolic consistency which is very similar to the only requirement for symbolic expression of divine revelation. This hypothesis keeps me going even though I feel

[page 93]

quite strongly that I will never be able to understand modern physics well enough to demonstrate that it is not the consequence of special tuning by a creator but simply a consequence of consistent dynamics. So press on.

Monday 28 September 2015

Tuesday 29 September 2015

[Nhill]

Wednesday 29 September 2015

[Adelaide]

Thursday 1 October 2015

Friday 2 October 2015

[Melbourne]

More travelling than writing. It is clear enough that the visible world is the set of fixed points in the life of God, but where do we go from there? We go from act to time and energy, and in the layered network paradigm the energy subroutine is called by every observation. Now we have to try to order the observations made by physicists from the simplest to the most complex, and implement the idea that simple observations are effectively subroutines in the more more complex observations.

After going round and round between gravitation and quantum mechanics for a few weeks, I still feel that quantum mechanics predates space-time, or at least space, and we have to work out a quantum mechanical way to create space / momentum out of time / energy, which seems to have a lot to do with the bifurcation of energy / time into kinetic energy / time and potential energy / space. Quantum mechanics and energy have no memory (?) but space is equivalent to memory, so we see memory as a new species of fixed point added to the p not-p which lies at the foundation of energy. Perhaps there is another clue in the ancient doctrine of the Trinity, where energy is the Father / Son relationship and memory is the Spirit, a fixed point (location) that can contain Father and [or] Son, ie love..

Saturday 3 October 2015

Let us asume that with the emergence of the first

[page 94]

dimension of space that the velocity of light is fixed by the fact that a quantum of space corresponds to a quantum of time, regardless of the actual 'size' of these quanta which are coupled by the quantum of action whose fundamental unit is the logical transition from p to not-p [ie a bit flip]. This related to my theological ansatz god is (is not) the universe.

Here we have something of a digital parallel to the use of gaussian coordinates and a metric in general relativity to arrive at a number representing actual physcal distance. This may be a clue to constructing spacetime using quantum mechanics given the notion that in the first instance quantum mechanics describes only energy / time / phase with no necessary reference to space. The velocity of light, c while essential to the Lorentz group, is not essential to quantum mechanics [nor is its actual value of importance].

Child sexual abuse: inappropriate calls to human sexual subroutines [systems].

The gravitational subroutine is called in all interactions in the universe, but is also capable of stand-alone existence before it was subsumed into higher layers.

Gradually boring myself into activity by reading the news and commentary, all rather predictable [since, like quantum mechanics, the news media sample a vast ensemble of events].

All the processes within me are in effect subroutines of my personality, and we can see the same things going on in atoms and their nuclei, down to the simplest particles. We may consider photons to be in some way subroutines of the universe. What do we imagine are the subroutines of spacetime, those processes whose outputs are space and time?

[page 95]

Somehow we have to mix into all this contents of books like Streater and Wightman, Weinberg, Peacock and Hobson et al. Streater & Wightman, , Weinberg, Peacock, Hobson, Efstathiou & Lazenby

All physical outputs appear in spacetime as particles, like the photons coming out of this book or my computer screen.

Is there a particle corresponding to 'spooky action at a distance' which can carry information [or just energy] withut delay because it exists prior to space? A subroutine of the universe, something like a spinless graviton which needs no error controlling code because its message is so simple that it cannot go wrong. See 'Is gravitation quantized? Just keep kicking this around until I score some sort of goal. On the (non-) quantization of gravitation

You may copy this material freely provided only that you quote fairly and provide a link (or reference) to your source.

Please click here to buy a copy of my book and support this project

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

Peacock, John A, Cosmological Physics, Cambridge University Press 1999 Nature Book Review: 'The intermingling of observational detail and fundamental theory has made cosmology an exceptionally rich, exciting and controversial science. Students in the field — whether observers or particle theorists — are expected to be acquainted with matters ranging from the Supernova Ia distance scale, Big Bang nucleosynthesis theory, scale-free quantum fluctuations during inflation, the galaxy two-point correlation function, particle theory candidates for the dark matter, and the star formation history of the Universe. Several general science books, conference proceedings and specialized monographs have addressed these issues. Peacock's Cosmological Physics ambitiously fills the void for introducing students with a strong undergraduate background in physics to the entire world of current physical cosmology. The majestic sweep of his discussion of this vast terrain is awesome, and is bound to capture the imagination of most students.' Ray Carlberg, Nature 399:322
Amazon back

Streater, Raymond F, and Arthur S Wightman, PCT, Spin, Statistics and All That, Princeton University Press 2000 Amazon product description: 'PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That is the classic summary of and introduction to the achievements of Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory. This theory gives precise mathematical responses to questions like: What is a quantized field? What are the physically indispensable attributes of a quantized field? Furthermore, Axiomatic Field Theory shows that a number of physically important predictions of quantum field theory are mathematical consequences of the axioms. Here Raymond Streater and Arthur Wightman treat only results that can be rigorously proved, and these are presented in an elegant style that makes them available to a broad range of physics and theoretical mathematics.'
Amazon back

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. '
Amazon back

Weinberg, Steven, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity, Wiley 1972 Amazon customer review: 'The Best Exposition on General Relativity: 'Weinberg is a master. His style is efficent. His words not wasted. His insights are inspiring. Behind each statement dwells a reservoir of thought. His selection and organization of the material seems non-improvable. Completion of the book yields general relativity in a comprehensive manner. In addition to his methods, I am wholeheartedly biased towards his approach of basing general relativity on empiricism rather than geometry. Reading this book is almost synonomous with sitting at the feet of a master. The methods utilized are standard tensor analysis, which yields the best results and understanding of the physics in a first exposure. MTW, in contrast, uses different mathematical approaches and moreover does so in an inconsistent manner. Weinberg is the BEST book, existing today, on general relativity period.' A Customer
Amazon back

Links

Ayalon Eliach, Why should Jews Celebrate a Torah that Calls for Genocide and Homophobia?, 'Calls for genocide. Instructions for how to manage sex slaves captured in battle. Death penalty for homosexuals. When you read these words, what comes to mind? ISIS? Boko Haram? Al Shabaab? Keep thinking. Every year, Jews across the world gather weekly to read consecutive portions of the Torah, Judaism’s holiest text, which features the morally repugnant list above as well as many other offensive passages (genocide: Deuteronomy 20:16-17; sex slavery: Deuteronomy 21:10-13; death penalty for homosexuals: Leviticus 20:13).' back

Ben Doherty, Australia resists nuclear disarmament push because it relies on US deterrent, 'Prof Ramesh Thakur, director of the centre for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament at the Australian National University, said Australian diplomats had underestimated support for the humanitarian pledge. “What is really clear from these cables, but not explicitly stated, is that Australian officials have been very surprised, they have been taken aback, by the strength of support for the humanitarian consequences pledge, and they are scrambling to explain that. “Support for the humanitarian consequences pledge is making Australia’s position more difficult; it is galvanising public and political opinion, and Australia finds itself running against the domestic and international tide.”' back

Ben Grubb, 'What we have is a game changer': UNSW recearchers to reveal breakthrough in quantum computing, 'Researchers from the University of New South Wales will next week unveil what they say is a major advance in the road to building super-fast quantum computers. The advance, of which a patent has been sought to protect it, is considered by the UNSW researchers as a substantial step forward in the global race to make the first generation of quantum computers, and "likely clears the final hurdle in making them a reality", the UNSW researchers said.' back

David Kirchhoffer and Natalia Lindner L'Huillier, What do Austalan Catholics think of church teaching on sex and family?, '. . . Second, there are those who think there needs to be doctrinal change, that is, a change to the church’s official teaching. . . . Here, the implications may be both doctrinal and pastoral – that is, practical. If there are real objections to the theological and philosophical arguments underpinning moral teachings, then it makes little sense to simply reiterate the teaching and demand obedience. . . . So, the kind of radical change to church doctrine that the second standpoint advocates seems unlikely. And yet, because the pastoral reforms of the third standpoint can bring implicit doctrinal tensions to the fore, they may also open a door to deeper discussions about doctrinal reform. And this is a conversation in which Australian Catholics seem to want to be heard.' back

Elizabeth Hand, In her memoir 'M Train' Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves, 'This year marks the 40th anniversary of Patti Smith’s groundbreaking debut album, “Horses,” a sonic boom still sending aftershocks through music, literature and fashion. Her new memoir, “M Train,” is a Proustian reverie covering those four decades: a magical, mystical tour de force that begins in a tiny Greenwich Village cafe and ends as a dream requiem to the same place, encompassing an entire lost world in its 253 pages.' back

Jewel Topsfield, Australian journalist Frank Palmos: forst witness to 1965 Indonesian massacre, 'Jakarta: Australian journalist Frank Palmos was one of the first foreigners in the world to witness the scale of the communist purge that started in Indonesia this month 50 years ago. In a chilling account in The Sun News-Pictorial, then Melbourne's largest newspaper, Dr Palmos put the number who died at "more than one million".' back

Katy Lederer, Defunding climate change, 'Other than climate change itself, the big villain of the conference was global energy subsidies, which, according to the World Bank, are projected to amount to 5.3 trillion dollars, or six and a half per cent of global G.D.P., in 2015 alone. (At seven hundred billion dollars a year, the United States comes second only to China in total subsidies provided.) According to an analysis by the International Monetary Fund, such subsidies are typically regressive in nature, with the wealthiest twenty percent of the population receiving forty-three per cent of the benefit.' back

Mark Beeson, Corbyn's radical defence policies, 'When asked if he would, or indeed could, press the nuclear button, his suitably disarming response was a simple “no”. Revolutions in strategic thinking don’t get more economical. His views drew a fairly predictable barrage of criticism, including quite a bit of friendly fire. Not only is the British Labour Party uncomfortable with “radical” economic policies, it seems, but it doesn’t care much for the strategic sort either.'f back

Michael Javen Fortner, The Real Roots of the '70s Drug Laws, 'The draconian Rockefeller drug laws, for example, the model for much of our current drug policies, were promoted and supported by an African-American leadership trying to save black lives. During the 1960s, concentrated poverty began to foster a host of social problems like drug addiction and crime that degraded the social and civic health of black neighborhoods. After the Harlem riots of 1964 (which erupted following the shooting of a 15-year-old black male by a white cop), polls showed that many African-Americans in New York City still considered crime a top problem facing blacks in the city, while few worried about civil rights and police brutality.' back

Robert Mickens, Letter from Rome: With the Pope in Washington, 'The iron hand within Francis' velvet glove is well hidden by millennia of spin but he remains, nevertheless, the most absolute of absolute monarchs, as a quick look at Canon 333 of the Code states. He has done well to draw attention to poverty and environmental damage, but we must remember that he represents an organization that maintains that women are second class citizens, that chastity is better than sex, that modern methods of fertility control are evil, that we are morally defective origial sinners, that life Earth is just a temporary testing ground on the way to heaven (or hell), that death is not real, and that ancient fiction is to be prefered to scientific observation. At its core, for all its popularity, the Catholic Church is a rotten and dangerous amalgam of absolute monarchy and denial of reality. All the dictators on Earth owe a debt to Moses for his invention of the divine right of kings, taken up with such fervour by the Catholics who celebrate Jesus of Nazareth as the 'King of Kings' and the Pope as God's voice on Earth.' back

Tilman Ruff, If we can't stop an impoverished nation like North Korea making nuclear weapons, our tactics are clearly wrong, 'Australia refuses to support the position that nuclear weapons should never be used again under any circumstances. It is not among the 117 nations that have signed the Humanitarian Pledge, committing to cooperate “in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons in light of their unacceptable humanitarian consequences”, and undertaking “to fill the legal gap for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons”.' back

Tony Kevin, Australia foreign policy needs a shake-up after two decades of sclerotic decline, 'The past 20 years under prime ministers Howard, Rudd, Gillard and Abbott were years of sclerosis and decline in Australia’s once creative and agile foreign policy. More and more, Australia became dullard US camp followers, as all the really important bilateral relationships and strategic choices moved into prime ministerial orbits of power, bounded by an increasingly fearful national security orthodoxy. All prime ministers since 1996 adopted a play-it-safe foreign policy of unquestioning strategic alignment with the US.' back