vol VII: Notes
2016
Notes
Sunday 7 February 2016 - Saturday 6 February 2016
[Notebook: DB 80: Cosmic plumbing]
[page 28]
Sunday 7 February 2016
Back to the notion that gravitation is not quantized because general covariance makes it error proof since every mapping is acceptable so error is not possible so Shannon's approach to error correction by quantization is unnecessary.
Monday 8 February 2016
Coyne page 50: Scientific theology: we go through the Nicene creed reinterpreting it to be consistent with the notion that the universe is divine. Put this in the [Scientific theology] introduction. Coyne: Faith vs Fact
[page 29]
Tuesday 9 February 2016
Politics, heresy and death [first chapter of Scientific theology]
Wednesday 10 February 2016
Our brain evolved for communication, and so like any network embodies general covariance [ie it can map any message onto the hardware].
Introduction to scientific_theology, a revised version of the Nicene Creed on the basis that the universe is divine, no original sin, no forgiveness through pain and murder, no eternal life, no monarchy. The creed is essentially a political document cooked up by the bishops to please their emperor. Constantine saw himself as divine in the tradition begun by Caesar Augustus, a person ruling by divine right as God rules. First Council of Nicea - Wikipedia, Augustus - Wikipedia
Thursday 11 February 2016
McGregor page 37: Chen Yuan: ' "Listen, Mr Robinson . . . we are the Communist Party and we will decide what communism is." ' So also says the Roman Catholic Church. McGregor: The Party
[page 30]
Stalin, Catholic Church and thought police. Thought Police - Wikipedia
McGregor page 41: Deng Xiaoping: ' "The single biggest mistake they [the Party] leadership had made in the eighties . . . had not been the opening of the economy . . . but a lack of ideological and political education to go with it." '
Politics is in a way everything and so it includes war and death from external armies or internal secret police whose task is to eliminate dissidence and, if necessary, dissidents as well. The system is in full flower in mainland China it seems. The only way to be strong enough to combat this is to lock onto reality, to tap into the creative features of reality which have given its peaceful wilderness that we are breaking with violent organization. So what is the key to my book? the expansion of space by ordering. Got this in the transfinite numbers in the theory of peace. This is a bootstrapping process, because each permutation of a set of objects can itself be an object to be permuted. The permutation of 2 objects gives us 2 states , so there is no progress there, but 3 gives 6, 6 gives 720 and 720! is a very big number. A theory of peace 1: Mathematical theology
Say it again: boson = and, fermion = nand, energy = not. These logical mappings ar very simple, but then we explore how do these things [happen]. How is nand physically implemented in the world? The spin-statistics theorem gives us clue. Spin-statistics theorem - Wikipedia
Sometimes I feel that I am a born loser. My ambitions are
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so high that I can never succeed. The aim is to understudy the role of a scientific Jesus of Nazareth, adding to the commandment of love the commandment of evidence. This commandment is possible because we have rendered god evident by identifying it with the universe, the source of all our experience.
We will stick with sex because sex sells. We assume that we have about 10x transducers connected as inputs to our nervous system [and 10y transducers connected as outputs from that system]. All this input must be decoded by a system which derives sufficient meaning from it to guide action. So our sexual intercourse, like all other intercourse, is guided by the messages we are receiving through the transducers in our body, external and internal. [Transducer is the interface between physical and logical]
Fucking from a computer network point of view - first describe the hardware, from transducers to processors to executives [formal to physical transducers]. And then the learned software. Dissecting the bodily network. The human physical body.
Brain [network]: Once you can encode and decode language you can do anything. There are as many encodings and decodings as there are deterministic machines ie ℵ0. So Einstein / Riemann space with ℵ1 cannot be deterministic but so can be creative creating space by the mapping of a region of measure 0 onto a line of measure 1, a hidden (?) property of differential equations which explains why they work so well in a digital universe - they give us the law of large numbers.
Friday 12 February 2016
[page 32]
The biggest task worldwide is to free ourselves from the constraints on the past on human creativity [the sunken intellectual capital problem]. For me this means to work toward scientific theology and democratic religion. At the root of all this is the friction inherent in democratic politics founded on understanding of the true nature of the world, that is the divinity which is open to all consistent actions [and avoids the inconsistent, in the sense that they simply do not happen].
Political truth: what the ruling class want it to be, versus the real truth, what is the case as seen by an observer open to all possibilities, ie a complete observer as defined (for instance) in a complete function space where by function we mean method of observation, ie eigenfunction.
Saturday 13 February 2016
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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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| Callen, Herbert B, Thermodynamics: an introduction to the physical theories of equiulibrium thermostatics and irreversible thermodynamics, John Wiley and Sons 1962 Preface: 'In writing this book I have forgone the conventional inductive development of thermodynamics in favor of a postulational approach, which I believe is more direct and logically simple. . . . In order to motivate the postulates, an elementary qualitative statistical discussion is given in an appendix, and some appeal is made to experimental observations, but the spirit of the development is that the postulates are best justified by a posteriori success of the theory rather than by a priori proof.'back |
Canon Law Society of America, Holy See, Code of Canon Law: Latin-English Edition, Canon Law Society of America 1984 Pope John Paul XXXIII announced his decision to reform the existing corpus of canonical legislation on 25 January 1959. Pope John Paul II ordered the promulgation of the revised Code of Canon law on the same day in 1983. The latin text is definitive. This English translation has been approved by the Canonical Affairs Committee of the [US] National Conference of Catholic Bishops in October 1983.
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Christie, Agathe, The Murder of Roger Akroyd, Harpercollins 1991 Amazon customer review: .The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first Christie I ever read - and it's a real masterpiece. The ending is pretty horrifying, but read the book again, and you'll wonder why you didn't notice various things - things the Murderer/Murderess (I'm not saying which it is!)said and did during the novel, that one didn't notice at the time. Extremely good stuff.. H Lim
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Coyne, Jerry A., Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible, Penguin Viking 2015 Jacket: 'Using the clear-eyed, rational methodology of a world-class scientist, Coyne dismantles every claim to explaining the physical world, and the life in it, that religion proposes, from Genesis on. While science relies on observation, reason, testing and experiment, methods that have led to tremendous progress, religion's methods are based on faith—beliefs in things for which there is no evidence, insufficient evidence or even counter-evidence—as well as on dogma, authority and "confirmation bias," the tendency to see as true what you want to be true. Coyne irrefutable demonstrates the grave harm—to individuals and our planet—in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we ive in.'
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Dirac, P A M, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th ed), Oxford UP/Clarendon 1983 Jacket: '[this] is the standard work in the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, indispensible both to the advanced student and the mature research worker, who will always find it a fresh source of knowledge and stimulation.' (Nature)
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Farmelo, Graham, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom, Basic Books 2009 Amazon Editorial Review:
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'Paul Dirac (1902–1984) shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger in 1933, but whereas physicists regard Dirac as one of the giants of the 20th century, he isn't as well known outside the profession. This may be due to the lack of humorous quips attributed to Dirac, as compared with an Einstein or a Feynman. If he spoke at all, it was with one-word answers that made Calvin Coolidge look loquacious. Dirac adhered to Keats's admonition that Beauty is truth, truth beauty: if an equation was beautiful, it was probably correct, and vice versa. His most famous equation predicted the positron (now used in PET scans), which is the antiparticle of the electron, and antimatter in general. . . . ' Copyright Reed Business Information
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Fine, Reuben, A History of Psychoanalysis, Columbia University 1979 'The author of this book is a distinguished psychoanalyst who has many psychoanalytic publications to his credit. In particular, he has ably demonstrated his capacity to describe and bring together the contributions of his colleagues on various topics representing different approaches to psychoanalytical work. This capacity he has again demonstrated in his latest book entitled A History of Psychoanalysis in which he traces the history of most of the main concepts used in psychoanalysis, the development of psychoanalytic technique, and its application to different types of mental illness. He describes Freud's initial discoveries and his subsequent alterations to his theories as his clinical experience presented him with aspects of a problem that his original formulations or hypotheses could not cover. He then traces subsequent contributions by psychoanalysts who have worked on the same problems, summarizing their views. Finally, he explores the relationship between Psychoanalysis and other disciplines, e.g. Psychiatry and the Social Sciences, and in particular the psychoanalytic approach to culture and value systems. This book could be invaluable to those who require a summary of the history of the development of psychoanalytic metapsychology and technique, and as such it is recommended.' Pearl H. M. King
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McGregor, Richard, The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, Harper 2010 Amazon editorial review: From Publishers Weekly
'McGregor, a journalist at the Financial Times, begins his revelatory and scrupulously reported book with a provocative comparison between China's Communist Party and the Vatican for their shared cultures of secrecy, pervasive influence, and impenetrability. The author pulls back the curtain on the Party to consider its influence over the industrial economy, military, and local governments. McGregor describes a system operating on a Leninist blueprint and deeply at odds with Western standards of management and transparency. Corruption and the tension between decentralization and national control are recurring themes--and are highlighted in the Party™s handling of the disturbing Sanlu case, in which thousands of babies were poisoned by contaminated milk powder. McGregor makes a clear and convincing case that the 1989 backlash against the Party, inexorable globalization, and technological innovations in communication have made it incumbent on the Party to evolve, and this smart, authoritative book provides valuable insight into how it has--and has not--met the challenge. '
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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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Wiener, Norbert, Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine, MIT Press 1996 The classic founding text of cybernetics.
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Links
| Augustus - Wikipedia, Augustus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Augustus (Latin: Imperātor Caesar Dīvī Fīlius Augustus 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family. His maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, and Octavius was named in Caesar's will as his adopted son and heir. . . .
On 1 January 42 BC, the Senate posthumously recognized Julius Caesar as a divinity of the Roman state, Divus Iulius. Octavian was able to further his cause by emphasizing the fact that he was Divi filius, "Son of God".' back |
| Elliott H Lieb & Jakob Yngvason, The Mathematical Structure of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, 'The essence of the second law of classical thermodynamics is the `entropy principle' which asserts the existence of an additive and extensive entropy function, S, that is defined for all equilibrium states of thermodynamic systems and whose increase characterizes the possible state changes under adiabatic conditions. It is one of the few really fundamental physical laws (in the sense that no deviation, however tiny, is permitted) and its consequences are far reaching. This principle is independent of models, statistical mechanical or otherwise, and can be understood without recourse to Carnot cycles, ideal gases and other assumptions about such things as `heat', `temperature', `reversible processes', etc., as is usually done. Also the well known formula of statistical mechanics, S = -\sum p log p, is not needed for the derivation of the entropy principle.
This contribution is partly a summary of our joint work (Physics Reports, Vol. 310, 1--96 (1999)) where the existence and uniqueness of S is proved to be a consequence of certain basic properties of the relation of adiabatic accessibility among equilibrium states. We also present some open problems and suggest directions for further study.' back |
| Erik P Verlinde, The Origins of gravity and the Laws of Newton, 'Starting from first principles and general assumptions Newton's law of gravitation is shown to arise naturally and unavoidably in a theory in which space is emergent through a holographic scenario. Gravity is explained as an entropic force caused by changes in the information associated with the positions of material bodies. A relativistic generalization of the presented arguments directly leads to the Einstein equations. When space is emergent even Newton's law of inertia needs to be explained. The equivalence principle leads us to conclude that it is actually this law of inertia whose origin is entropic.' back |
| First Council of Nicea - Wikipedia, First Council of Nicea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in A.D. 325. The Council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.' back |
| kwanzaakeepers.com, AIDS Deaths in Africa, SOURCE: Extrapolated from December 2000 UNAIDS data back |
| Leonard Susskind, The World as a Hologram, 'According to 't Hooft the combination of quantum mechanics and gravity requires the three dimensional world to be an image of data that can be stored on a two dimensional projection much like a holographic image. The two dimensional description only requires one discrete degree of freedom per Planck area and yet it is rich enough to describe all three dimensional phenomena. After outlining 't Hooft's proposal I give a preliminary informal description of how it may be implemented. One finds a basic requirement that particles must grow in size as their momenta are increased far above the Planck scale. The consequences for high energy particle collisions are described. The phenomena of particle growth with momentum was previously discussed in the context of string theory and was related to information spreading near black hole horizons. The considerations of this paper indicate that the effect is much more rapid at all but the earliest times. In fact the rate of spreading is found to saturate the bound from causality. Finally we consider string theory as a possible realization of 't Hooft's idea. The light front lattice string model of Klebanov and Susskind is reviewed and its similarities with the holographic theory are demonstrated. The agreement between the two requires unproven but plausible assumptions about the nonperturbative behavior of string theory. Very similar ideas to those in this paper have been long held by Charles Thorn.' back |
| Niels Bohr - Wikipedia, Niels Bohr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation: [nels ˈb̥oɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, . . . Bohr has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century' back |
| Sarah Childress, Could Ferguson Win Its Case Against the Justice Department?, 'Now, change in the city that helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement following the police shooting death of 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown will come much more slowly, if at all.
On Tuesday, Ferguson’s city council voted 6-0 to amend the deal, removing mandates for salary increases for its officers and an increase in staffing for the city jail.
Less than 24 hours later, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Justice Department had filed a complaint in court against the city, alleging a pattern or practice of civil-rights violations that were, she said, “not only egregious — they were routine.” ' back |
| Schrödinger equation - Wikipedia, Schrödinger equation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In physics, the Schrödinger equation, proposed by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1926, describes the space- and time-dependence of quantum mechanical systems. It is of central importance in non-relativistic quantum mechanics, playing a role for microscopic particles analogous to Newton's second law in classical mechanics for macroscopic particles. Microscopic particles include elementary particles, such as electrons, as well as systems of particles, such as atomic nuclei.' back |
| Spin-statistics theorem - Wikipedia, Spin-statistics theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In quantum mechanics, the spin–statistics theorem relates the spin of a particle to the particle statistics it obeys. The spin of a particle is its intrinsic angular momentum (that is, the contribution to the total angular momentum that is not due to the orbital motion of the particle). All particles have either integer spin or half-integer spin (in units of the reduced Planck constant ħ. The theorem states that:
The wave function of a system of identical integer-spin particles has the same value when the positions of any two particles are swapped. Particles with wave functions symmetric under exchange are called bosons.
The wave function of a system of identical half-integer spin particles changes sign when two particles are swapped. Particles with wave functions antisymmetric under exchange are called fermions.' back |
| Thought Police - Wikipedia, Thought Polics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the fictional superstate, Oceania, in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Orwell's Thought Police are charged with uncovering and punishing "thoughtcrime" and thought-criminals. They use psychological methods and omnipresent surveillance (such as telescreens) to search, find, monitor, and arrest members of society who could potentially challenge authority and the status quo—even if only by thought—hence the name Thought Police. They use terror and torture to achieve their ends.' back |
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