vol VII: Notes
2015
Notes
Sunday 29 November 2015 - Saturday5 December 2015
[Notebook: DB 79: Galileo Wins]
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Sunday 29 November 2015
Malcolm Turnbull and Pope Francis are very similar - they've put a lot of lipstick on their pigs, but they are still the same old pigs (with apologies to pigs). Turnbull and co are still pushing coal and climate change denialism; the Pope is still supporting the grotty old male power tripper approach to women and families. No woman had a voice at the Synod on the Family.
Monday is for computer network and some progress on the coupling of logic to spacetime by variation and selection. The Darwinian Lagrangian. Noether's theorem - Wikipedia
Orthogonality, symmetry, blindness.
Now that communism is gone, the Christians are [back to] taking on Islam [The 'religious oscillation' has a period of about 1000 years].
Monday 30 November 2015
The effectiveness of the variational method applied to the
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Lagrangian suggests that the fixed points in the physical universe, as at all other levels, are determined by natural selection.
How much might I expose myself to get attention: activism. Presumably the motivation will come if my subconscious (invisible processing) decides that it is a good thing. A little bit embarrassing (and enlightening) reading over these notes from 1982 on and editing with a view to publication.
Action: real numbers
Energy: complex numbers, the first bifurcation.
Space is the memory in which the universe is stored. It must be 3D so memory locations can communicate one to one ie establish one-to-one correspondences as require by set theory. Routines working in the space-time memory act to change the contents of memory, eg when building I introduce structures into space occupied by air and gravitation.
We use complex numbers for the same reason that nature uses them, they are a very useful subroutine for representing the processes of nature [cyclic, recursive].
Where is the market in physics? 'Natural selection' - those things chosen to prosper through utility or some other desirable [or powerful] feature take over the available resources, like 'smart phones'.
Ideas become more plausible as they become more familiar - behavioural metaphysics.
Quantum mechanics tells us that the size of the space-time pixel [4xel] varies inversely as the energy-momentum of the process.
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This is a bit like gravitation, where the scale of spacetime curvature is determined by the local energy tensor. There comes a point where gravitation overrides all other forces. [The small-scale (energy dense) structure of spacetime.] Hawking & Ellis: The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime
'Forces' are messages associated with codes and all systems on a given channel must abide by the protocols (language) of their network. Gravitation, space and time are the network protocols which embrace every existent [message], they are a subroutine of every system.
Miley Cyrus exploits the mystical [metaphysical] power of her female body to communicate with her screaming audience [and fellow performers]. Adam Scodelario: Bangers World Tour (Full Concert), Rolf Landauer: Information is a Physical Entity
So we might see spacetime as a foam of tetrahedra whose spacetime metric is the inverse of their energy. Concentration and dispersal is in the first instance the work of gravitation.
We learn about the universe from scientific methodology and our fundamental article of faith is that the universe is consistent, so that when we see inconsistency we know that we have yet to fully undertand the situation. The opposite of this article of faith is the authoritarian view.
We see the outsides of particles moving in space-time but we also want to know what is going on inside, as we understand trees, animals and other people at our scale. [We] extend into the microscopic and cosmic, all embraced in a network founded on gravitation which we may see as the source of spacetime, ie a layer beneath it.
The expansion of the initial singularity is a fur of geodesics emanating from the initial point, each geodesic corresponding to a fundamental particle or set of interacting particles, being created and destroyed as they move [like dotted lines with a transfinite variety of dots].
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Creation: the halting of a computer, establishing a fixed point and a potential which may then annihilate, releasing its energy to drive another process resulting in new creation [harmonic oscillator]. So in the universal network, at the fundamental level we do not have nodes and then connect them together, but nodes and messages are duals, of one another and come into 'existence' 'simultaneously. So the network grows naturally and logically and our search gradually becomes the code that drives the universe. I am very much in the same position as I was when we got the first SWTPC (sweatpac) computer and began to understand how to write software (even machine code) and how the computer itself could bootstrap itself up from next to nothing to a machine with an 8 k operating system and a total of 64 k of memory. SWTPC - Wikipedia, Harmonic Oscillator - Wikipedia
Its hard to be exuberant when the task is overwhelming but I keep getting little flashes of the divine spirit and it draws me on.
Its all a matter of walking around the crystal [computable] forest until one sees the lines of symmetry.
Insights / events are the result of a non-linear process: one proceeds linearly through the humdrum tasks of life (all of which are programmed and predictable) and then comes an interrupt, an event out of the ordinary which changes the course of life. At the human scale, we can see all these things as communications with our environment [mostly other humans], the potential we respond to in the dance of life. the best analogy is dancing when one becomes 'phase locked' to the music and no further thought about moves is required [this is something to do with completeness / computability: phase lock = algorithm]. Miley Cyrus
When we get lost go back to the roots, ie the transfinite network, the phase space of life [where is the sun?]
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So we can begin describing the network at the level of the human passion and gossip and show that the transfinite network can handle this, ie a party or a war, and then slide back down the complexity pole to the physical layer.
Still my ambition: a mathematically consistent proof that cooperation will always overcome individuality. Ayn Rand's lone standout is a literary fiction that overlooks the immense complexity of the real world which sustains the heroes ad provides a few people opportunities to change the course of history. Ayn Rand - Wikipedia
So we follow Jech backwards, from transfinite to finite or at least explaining how the transfinite network can be a formal phase space for everything. Explain in technical detail, how the network contains symmetries, how it uses meaning to deal with infinite situations by finite means, the art of government. Jech: Set Theory
kindle problem: Amazon does not like 'child abuse and corruption are killing the church'.
Tuesday 1 December 2015
Wednesday 2 December 2015
Quantum mechanics - boson = and
fermion = nand.
How does this happen? Formally we cannot tell. We are talking about atomic operations that cannot be dissected. On the hypothesis that the universe is divine, we might categorize them as acts of god which are invisible and
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to that extent mysterious. We can only speculate about them on the basis of the observations we have made. The same is true of physics and science in general. In the case of physics we have no model of the actual execution of quantum superposition and the collapse of the wave function, that is the selection of one out of many possible solutions of the wave [differential] equation. We do, however, have a formalism, the overlap integral inherent in Born's rule, which enables us to compute the probability that particular solutions will be selected. These probabilities are tested by repeated observations of formally identical instances of the process of interest, like the decay of a uranium nucleus.
The quantum of action is the 'volume' of the 4xel.
Philosophy precedes and guides physics. I am proposing a new epistemology to spawn a new physics. This was the case with Parmenides, Newton, [Einstein] and the founders of quantum mechanics who dealt with many epistemological problems, some of which are still with us, which we hope to clarify.
Thursday 3 December 2015
Going to sleep; Slipped away, like an animal in the bush, but it will be in there somewhere, encoded, as Eccles surmised, in the states and wiring of millions of synapses and other programmable elements in my central nervous system. But what was it? Another step toward the digital universe, maybe, an answer to the question why bother? Why bother? Because it brings the whole power of the more metaphysical (metamathematical) to near on the questions of physics and theories of everything. It is the
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keystone of a transition, pioneered by Aristotle, Aquinas and Lonergan to seeing reality (ie god) in psychological rather than physical terms. It is true that the earliest gods were superhuman human personalities who expresses all the emotions from love to hate and that this emotional foundation opened a path to the understanding of the physical world. Now a more specifically psychological approach to physics opens the path to a psychological (ie network) explanation of everything and so becomes a key to peace on earth based on a realistic (scientific) theology. John Eccles (neurophysiologist) - Wikipedia
The world is a mess and the root of the problem is theological. Keep saying this as we push on to develop the new product: the next book" Scientific theology. New title for 'radix pacis', less pretentious and more to the point.
Friday 4 December 2015
. . .
The network model unites psychology and physics and so unifies the numan and natura worlds In other words we heal the breach caused by the early Grek philosophers inventing a class of immaterial (spiritual) beings and put themselves in this class with spiritual (separable) souls temporarily embodied in a material body which was seen as somewhat surplus to requirements, as we can see from the nature of angels.
Saturday 5 December
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Further reading
Books
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Berndt, Ronald M, Love Songs of Arnhem Land, 1978 Jacket: Love Songs of Arnhem Land is a contribution towards an increasing interest within and outside Australia in understanding Australian Aboriginal Culture. . . . The song-poetry itself is hauntingly beautiful. Its traditional imagery creates a special and unique atmosphere. Men and women are agents in a divine plan in which they play a crucial role, working in harmony with the forces of nature symbolized by the mythic beings. . . . '
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Chaitin, Gregory J, Algorithmic Information Theory, Cambridge UP 1987 Foreword: 'The crucial fact here is that there exist symbolic objects (i.e., texts) which are "algorithmically inexplicable", i.e., cannot be specified by any text shorter than themselves. Since texts of this sort have the properties associated with random sequences of classical probability theory, the theory of describability developed . . . in the present work yields a very interesting new view of the notion of randomness.' J T Schwartz
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Christie, Agatha, Crooked House, St. Martin's Minotaur 2002 Amazon Editorial Reviews
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'In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level... '
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Graves, Robert, Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina, Vintage:Vintage international
1989 'Picking up where the extraordinarily interesting I, Claudius ends, Claudius the God tells the tale of Claudius' 13-year reign as Emperor of Rome. Naturally, it ends when Claudius is murdered--believe me, it's not giving anything away to say this; the surprise is when someone doesn't get poisoned. While Claudius spends most of his time before becoming emperor tending to his books and his writings and trying to stay out of the general line of corruption and killings, his life on the throne puts him into the center of the political maelstrom.'
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Hawking, Steven W, and G F R Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time , Cambridge UP 1975 Preface: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity . . . leads to two remarkable predictions about the universe: first that the final fate of massive stars is to collapse behind an event horizon to form a 'black hole' which will contain a singularity; and secondly that there is a singularity in our past which constitutes, in some sense, a beginning to our universe. Our discussion is principally aimed at developing these two results.'
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Jech, Thomas, Set Theory, Springer 1997 Jacket: 'This book covers major areas of modern set theory: cardinal arithmetic, constructible sets, forcing and Boolean-valued models, large cardinals and descriptive set theory. . . . It can be used as a textbook for a graduate course in set theory and can serve as a reference book.'
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Khinchin, Aleksandr Yakovlevich, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (translated by P A Silvermann and M D Friedman), Dover 1957 Jacket: 'The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein and Khinchin on a rigorous mathematical basis. For the first time, mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, cyberneticists and communications engineers are offered a lucid, comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field.'
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Latifa, My Forbidden face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story, Miramax 2003 Amazon review From Booklist
'Latifa was only 16 when the Taliban overran Kabul, changing her life dramatically. On the morning of September 26, 1996--the day the Taliban took Kabul--Latifa, her sister, Soraya, and their father drove to Aryana Square and saw the body of the murdered former president, Najibullah. The Taliban began issuing edicts, forbidding women to leave their houses without a close male relative to escort them; forcing them to wear chadris, which cover their entire bodies; and refusing to allow them to work. Latifa, Soraya, and their mother suffered greatly, falling into depression. Their mother, a doctor, continued to see patients secretly, and Latifa eventually started an underground school for girls, an action that put both her and her students at great risk. Latifa and her parents left Afghanistan to be interviewed by the French magazine Elle, but when they tried to return, they discovered that the Taliban had declared them enemies of the state. A moving firsthand account with a real sense of immediacy.' Kristine Huntley
Copyright © American Library Association.
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Searle, Ronald, and Geoffry Willans, How to be Topp, PUFFIN BOOKS: New Impression edition 1970 A mischievously humourous look at a dysfunctional British private school seen through the eyes of Nigel Molesworth, "the grilla of 3b".
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Sigmund, Karl, Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Oxford UP 1993 Jacket: 'This book takes us on a tour through the games and computer simulations that are helping us to understand the ecology, evolution and behaviour of real life - from cat and mouse to cellular automata, from the battle of the sexes to artificial life, from poker to prisoner's dilemma.'
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Whitehead, Alfred North, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, Dover 1919-1982 Preface: 'We now know many alternative sets of axioms from which geometry can be deduced by the strictest deductive reasoning, But these investigations concern geometry as an abstract science deduced from hypothetical premisses. In this enquiry, we are concerned with geometry as a physical science. How is space rooted in experience?'
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Papers
| Gibson, J Murray, "Viewing the Seeds of Crystallization", Science, 326, 5955, 13 Novermber 2009, page 942-943. 'All materials search for the lowest accessible energy state. As temperature is increased in disordered materials, atoms diffuse and explore different chemical and structural configurations. Crystalline phases may be favored, but a very small crystal is unstable, so there is a "nucleation barrier" to overcome; only after reaching a critical size can the nucleus grow. Although we understand the thermodynamics of the nucleation process [e.g., (1)], observation of the actual atomic-scale complexity during nucleation has remained elusive, despite its importance to the properties of materials. Taking nucleation out of the "black box" is one of the grand challenges to "materials by design" that is seen as the future solution to major societal problems such as sustainable energy (2). On page 980 of this issue, Lee et al. (3) use fluctuation electron microscopy to image subcritical nuclei in a solid material, observing metastable structural states that facilitate later nucleation in amorphous films. Their study is applied to a technologically important case of "phase-change memory" and therefore may facilitate efforts to design faster higher-density nonvolatile memory.'. back |
| Lee, Bong-Sub, et al, "Observation of the Role of Subcritical Nuclei in the Crystallization of a Glassy Solid", Science, 326, 5955, 13 Novermber 2009, page . 'Phase transformation generally begins with nucleation, in which a small aggregate of atoms organizes into a different structural symmetry. The thermodynamic driving forces and kinetic rates have been predicted by classical nucleation theory, but observation of nanometer-scale nuclei has not been possible, except on exposed surfaces. We used a statistical technique called fluctuation transmission electron microscopy to detect nuclei embedded in a glassy solid, and we used a laser pump-probe technique to determine the role of these nuclei in crystallization. This study provides a convincing proof of the time- and temperature-dependent development of nuclei, information that will play a critical role in the development of advanced materials for phase-change memories.'. back |
| Stott, Rebecca, Hannah Morrish, "Newton in Three Dimension", Science, 326, 5955, 13 Novermber 2009, page 937. Let Newton Be! by Craig Baxter; directed by Patrick Morris Menagerie Theatre Company, University of Cambridge, UK. October 2009. Commissioned by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge.. back |
| Walsh, Matthew R, et al, "Microsecond Simulations of Spontaneous Methane Hydrate Nucleation and Growth", Science, 326, 5956, 20 November 2009, page 1095-1098. 'Despite the industrial implications and worldwide abundance of gas hydrates, the formation mechanism of these compounds remains poorly understood. We report direct molecular dynamics simulations of the spontaneous nucleation and growth of methane hydrate. The multiple-microsecond trajectories offer detailed insight into the process of hydrate nucleation. Cooperative organization is observed to lead to methane adsorption onto planar faces of water and the fluctuating formation and dissociation of early hydrate cages. The early cages are mostly face-sharing partial small cages, favoring structure II; however, larger cages subsequently appear as a result of steric constraints and thermodynamic preference for the structure I phase. The resulting structure after nucleation and growth is a combination of the two dominant types of hydrate crystals (structure I and structure II), which are linked by uncommon 512 cages that facilitate structure coexistence without an energetically unfavorable interface'. back |
Links
| Adam Scodelario, Miley Cyrus - Bangers World Tour (Full Concert), Jeremy Rodrigues
I' saw her on tour (February 24th) & let me just say it was an amazing experience. She was talking to us asking us questions & even gave a speech about gay marriage it really made me feel like she actually wanted to be there not just perform & go. I would definitely see her again.' back |
| Alfred North Whitehead - Wikipedia, Alfred North Whitehead - Wikipedia, 'Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15, 1861 – December 30, 1947) was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell.' back |
| Ayn Rand - Wikipedia, Ayn Rand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Rand called her philosophy "Objectivism", describing its essence as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."[105] She considered Objectivism a systematic philosophy and laid out positions on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics.' back |
| David Smith, Blair and Bush went to war in Iraq despite South Africa's WMD assurances, 'Tony Blair went to war in Iraq despite a report by South African experts with unique knowledge of the country that showed it did not possess weapons of mass destruction, according to a book published on Sunday.
God, Spies and Lies, by South African journalist John Matisonn, describes how then president Thabo Mbeki tried in vain to convince both Blair and President George W Bush that toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003 would be a terrible mistake.' back |
| Fixhepc, fixhepc.com, 'Affordable treatment for Hepatitis C is now available via parallel importation of Sofosbuvir, Ledipasvir and Daclatasvir. These medications have received regulatory approval worldwide and are assisting patients across the globe now. To read more about patients taking them please visit our forums. If you want to be part of the REDEMPTION eTrials follow this link.
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| Gordon Brown, A powerful antidote to the Islamic State, 'In Beirut — the troubled capital of a country with one of the worst histories of sectarian violence in the world — a unique experiment is underway.
Born out of a National Charter for Education on Living Together in Lebanon — which leaders of all major religions have signed — a common school curriculum on shared values is being taught in primary and secondary schools to Shiite, Sunni and Christian pupils.
The curriculum focuses on “the promotion of coexistence” by embracing “inclusive citizenship” and “religious diversity” and aims to ensure what the instigators call “liberation from the risks of . . . sectarianism.”' back |
| Guy Rolnik, The Secret You're Not Being Told About Isis, 'There is little discussion about the contribution of Western money – especially American money – to the growth of this terrorism. That anecdote about the Pentagon and Gitmo and the generals may help us understand why that is.
The industry of war, terrorism and peace is one of the largest in the world. It starts with America’s vast spending on security, the military, weapons and all its espionage agencies – $1 trillion a year. Then there are the hundreds of thousands of people, from lobbyists and journalists to aid organizations.' back |
| Harmonic Oscillator - Wikipedia, Harmonic Oscillator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In classical mechanics, a harmonic oscillator is a system that, when displaced from its equilibrium position, experiences a restoring force, F, proportional to the displacement, x: F = kx,
where k is a positive constant.
If F is the only force acting on the system, the system is called a simple harmonic oscillator, and it undergoes simple harmonic motion: sinusoidal oscillations about the equilibrium point, with a constant amplitude and a constant frequency (which does not depend on the amplitude).' back |
| Harriet Sherqood ad alon Mwesigwa, Pope Francis passes u chance to condemn Uganda's anti-gays, 'The Christian martyrs were burned alive in the 1880s on the orders of Mwanga II, King of Buganda, who was alarmed about the growing influence of Christianity. According to historians, their fate was sealed by their rebuff of the king’s homosexual advances.
Homophobia is rife in present-day Uganda. A law signed last year by Museveni compelled citizens to report suspected homosexual activity to the police, triggering increased levels of prejudice, violence and discrimination against the gay community. The law was later annulled but is expected to be reintroduced.' back |
| Jim Tankersley, This might be the most controversial theory for what's behind the rise of ISIS, 'A year after his 700-page opus "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" stormed to the top of America's best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial than his book, which continues to generate debate in political and economic circles.
The new argument, which Piketty spelled out recently in the French newspaper Le Monde, is this: Inequality is a major driver of Middle Eastern terrorism, including the Islamic State attacks on Paris earlier this month — and Western nations have themselves largely to blame for that inequality.' back |
| John Eccles (neurophysiologist) - Wikipedia, John Eccles (neurophysiologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Eccles was key to a number of important developments in neuroscience. Until around 1949, Eccles believed that synaptic transmission was primarily electrical rather than chemical. Although he was wrong in this hypothesis, his arguments led him and others to perform some of the experiments which proved chemical synaptic transmission. Bernard Katz and Eccles worked together on some of the experiments which elucidated the role of acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter.' back |
| Miley Cyrus, Wrecking Ball, back |
| Natasha Singer and Mike Isaac, Mark Zuckerberg's Philanthropy Uses L.L.C. for More Control, '“If I was Zuckerberg or one of his friends, and I was giving away multiple billions of dollars, I don’t know what’s going to be important hundreds of years from now,” said Scott A. Bishop, director of financial planning at STA Wealth Management. “In the long run, an L.L.C. is best for that type of flexibility.”' back |
| Noether's theorem - Wikipedia, Noether's theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Noether's (first) theorem states that any differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. The theorem was proved by German mathematician Emmy Noether in 1915 and published in 1918. The action of a physical system is the integral over time of a Lagrangian function (which may or may not be an integral over space of a Lagrangian density function), from which the system's behavior can be determined by the principle of least action.' back |
| Pink Floyd, Live Concert footage, Dark Side of the Moon, 'Full album of live concert footage with song order same as original album. This is a representation of a Pink Floyd album in it's entirety for educational purposes, utilizing live performances. The songs are in the order as found on the original vinyl album which is historically significant. This video is protected under the laws of "fair use" and adheres to the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video.' back |
| Post-coital tristesse - Wikipedia, Post-coital tristesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Sexual intercourse can sometimes lead to a feeling of melancholy called PCT, or post-coital tristesse (from Latin post-coital, and French tristesse, literally — “sadness”). This is more common in men than in women. Many PCT sufferers may also exhibit strong feelings of anxiety, anywhere from five minutes, to two hours after coitus.' 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 |
| St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion,, 'The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is an interdisciplinary research enterprise based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. In addition to academic research, the Institute engages in the public understanding of science and religion by means of Courses, Lectures, Seminars and the Media.' back |
| SWTPC - Wikipedia, SWTPC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The U.S. company SWTPC started in 1964 as DEMCO (Daniel E. Meyer Company). It was incorporated in 1967 as Southwest Technical Products Corporation of San Antonio, Texas . . . When microprocessors (CPU chips) became available, SWTPC became one of the first suppliers of microcomputers to the general public, focusing on designs using the Motorola 6800 and, later, the 6809 CPUs. Many of these products were available in kit form as well. SWTPC also designed and supplied computer terminals, chassis, processor cards, memory cards, motherboards, I/O cards, disk drive systems, and tape storage systems' back |
| SWTPC - Wikipedia, SWTPC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The U.S. company SWTPC started in 1964 as DEMCO (Daniel E. Meyer Company). It was incorporated in 1967 as Southwest Technical Products Corporation of San Antonio, Texas. They produced a wide variety of electronics kits, and later complete computer systems.' back |
| Taliban - Wikipedia, Taliban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, meaning "students"), also Taleban, is a radical Sunni Islamist movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until late 2001, when all of its members were removed from power by NATO forces during Operation Enduring Freedom. It has regrouped since 2004 and revived as a strong insurgency movement governing at the local level and fighting a guerrilla war against the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The movement is made up of members belonging to different ethnic Pashtun tribes,[5] along with a number of volunteers from nearby Islamic countries such as Uzbeks, Tajiks, Chechens, Arabs, Punjabis and others. They operate in Afghanistan and the Frontier Tribal Areas of Pakistan, mainly around the Durand Line border.' back |
| Thomas Piketty, Le tout-securitaire ne suffira pas, 'C’est une évidence : le terrorisme se nourrit de la poudrière inégalitaire moyen-orientale, que nous avons largement contribuée à créer. Daech, « Etat islamique en Irak et au Levant », est directement issu de la décomposition du régime irakien, et plus généralement de l’effondrement du système de frontières établi dans la région en 1920.' back |
| Tom Arup and Peter Hannam, Paris UN Climate Conference 2015: Australia rejects fossil fuel pledge, 'The International Energy Agency this month noted that fossil fuel subsidies continue to outpace those for renewable energy by a factor of more than four-to-one. In 2014, those subsidies totalled $US490 billion ($695 billion) compared with $US112 billion for clean energy sources in the power sector.' back |
| Vasudevan Sridharan, Russia bombs Turkish aid agency's bakery in Syria's Idlib province, 'Russia is believed to have bombed a bakery run by a Turkish humanitarian aid agency in Syria's Idlib province. The bakery operated by Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) is frequented by nearly 45,000 people every day.' back |
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