vol VII: Notes
2017
Notes
Sunday 17 September 2017 - Saturday 23 September 2017
[Notebook: DB 81: Scientific theology]
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Sunday 17 September 2017
I suppose I more or less believed in the Catholic church from birth to my early twenties where what I learnt in the Dominicans of the Church's 'back office' began to tip the balance. Details were not so important as the fact that the Church's 'scientific' basis remains fundamentally Aristotelian and its management style is monarchical. I want to take theology into Cantor's paradise.
An essay: Lets take theology to Cantor's Paradise On leading theology to Cantor's paradise
Given the nature of the entertainment world the propagation of my idea is more likely to be influenced by public relations that by its intrinsic worth, but I am more interested in creating a sound product than the marketing on the ground that of the product is good enough it will sell
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itself. That is all I can do anyway since I have no budget for promotion.
One can create a new permutation by local actions such as swapping two symbols (the only possible local action, the group action).
Mathematics is all worked out on the front of the page by conventional symbols and their meanings.
Since the processes generating each new layer in the Cantor universe are identical (permutation) except for their scale, we can learn a lot about the structure of the network by studying the boundary between sets with cardinals ℵn and sets constructed from these with cardinals ℵn+1. This step is modelled in classical mathematics as the boundary between the natural and the real numbers. It is also the boundary of control. We need long strings of digits to represent or measure real numbers. In general these strings have ℵ0 elements and be incomputable. (?)
Monday 18 September 2017
Looking at the wonderful things people do and wondering whether my work will ever make a significant contribution to human welfare. My overall aim is to replace our currently mythological theologies that depend to a large extent on capricious gods with a scientific theology that recognizes that the Universe with all its amazing wonders plays all the roles we have in the past attributed to god, and that we can greatly improve our condition by conforming to the realities revealed by science. Working against a headwind that says we are the children of a benevolent god who will look after us no matter what we do. Yet the Universe has a much bigger heart than the old gods which are largely a reflection of the ruling elite that exploit people for their own benefit.
There are two complimentary approaches to establishing this doctrine. One is to argue from general principles using bold assertions and public relations to convince
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people that it is a safe and productive approach. The other is to use the theological ansatz as a key to scientific advances as Newton did by treating god as a frame of reference in which to develop his theory of dynamics. I am trying to do this, in the gravitation essay leaving god out of it while seeing the divinity of the universe reflected in the transfinite nature of the fixed points of the universe.
I am a fixed point of such complexity that there could be a vast number of different humans like me, each with a different permutation of the elements that go to make up humanity. This number cannot be realized through shortage of resources, in my model represented by the space and time boundaries on computation.
[LOGICAL] MOTION ≡ COMPUTATION
My writing evolves from generation to generation so my computer is full of drafts of the divine universe idea seen from different directions.
A very important marketing tool is the relationship of quantum mechanics to music, giving new meaning to 'the music of the spheres' and explaining quantum mechanics in its fundamental implementation in the energy . time domain, ie the inertial frame of the system we are studying. As soon as we begin to think about communication between these inertial frames we are in the realm of [quantum field theory].
At the economic level things are good: money rolling on on the market, words rolling out trying to catch up with the elusive bandersnatch.
Trump is a throwback to the present old days where rulers were business people, warlords and bastards wanting only power and wealth for themselves, their only interests in the population of slaves being to maximize their profitability.
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'Heaven knows no frontiers And I've seen heaven in your eyes'. The Corrs
Computation takes care of the periodicity and the complex numbers.
The only algorithm necessary for the quantum root computers are the ability to add and multiply complex numbers. Multiplication can be achieved by repeated adding, exponentiation by repeated multiplication. So we can follow Cantor's tracks as he introduces these mathematical operations into set theory. How do we add complex numbers? By adding the real and imaginary parts separately. Not easy. Go back a step and see how periodicity entered the world in the first place: by breaking the symmetry of action to give us potential and kinetic energy, existing in time which is the number of motion.
Superposition depends upon the time, that is the phase of adding. Each primitive computer is a circle group, and when they add we get a wave carrying both of their frequencies. The point about phase is that it is always normalized to 1 and what counts is the angle a dimensionless [complex] number, counting in units (quanta) of action.
Each basis state in an infinite dimensional energy operator is a circle group of a certain frequency normalized to 1. The superposition is organized by the complex coefficients of these basis states.
What we are really trying to compute are eigenvalues and probabilities, which are real numbers. The superposition is a snapshot of the states of all the circle groups added together, and it too is normalized to one by a condition on the coefficients, the sum of whose absolute squares must be 1. How does nature organize this? By creating a probability density and watching its conserved flow.
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Dirac in Van Der Waerdon page 317: 'The conditions on the classical theory that a set of variables Pr, Qr shall b canonical are [ Qr, Qs] = 0, [Pr, Ps] = 0, [Qr, Ps] = δrs.
Heisenberg in Dirac page 307: 'Heisenberg puts forward a new theory which suggests that it is not the equations of classical mechanics that are in any way at fault, but that the mathematical operations by which physical results are deduced from them require modification. All the information supplied by the classical theory can thus be made use of in the new theory.
Tuesday 19 September 2017
In both quantum mechanics and computing everything depends on phase, so we like to see time as the first fixed point to emerge from the eternal beginning. In the beginning was the clock [set in motion by the conversation between Father and Son].
Morale is the thing. The divine universe has looked good to me for fifty years, the problem is to get a hearing. I am stuck in the physics of god's body because that is where the leverage seems most powerful from a scientific point of view and there are serious problems in a current quantum field theory which appears to be taking refuge in outrageous complexity and expensive machinery where one feels that the solutions should be simple. So I am happy with the idea that the determinism we see in the world, somewhat obscured by a cloud of uncertainty, is a clear footprint of a computable process. The problem is to interpret quantum mechanics in terms of computation and I feel confident about moving toward a solution to this problem, led on by little snippets of insight. This mornings's approach involves the reversibility of quantum mechanics and its relationship to non-commutative multiplication which is a
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product of the fact that the elements being multiplied in quantum mechanics are complex operators, the Pauli and gamma matrices which serve to define the nature of space along with Minkowski space and the Dirac equation. Only in space [time?] can we have non-commutativity as we can see by arranging the operators in different ways: cook the eggs, then break them vs break the eggs then cook them, boiled vs fried.. . .
Quantum mechanics closely resembles the scalar product of two vectors. Vector, a sequence of programs (the mosquito has a biting and bloodsucking vector).
H Pierre Noyes is my man. A digital process that does not, however, use the theory of communication to establish the need for discrete symbols to ensure computability. H. Pierre Noyes - Wikipedia
My work is to bridge the gap between theology and physics and digitization, logic and symbolic computation is the key. Noyes has provided me with a giant step forward by using symbolic computation to explain quantum field theory. This gives me a link between physics and the transfinite number. Reality is capabe of computing anything computable, so by putting computers into the Cantor universe, we create a phase space that can be fitted both to physics and theology. the transfinite computer [network] is the bridge. After half a century floating free in the imaginative space of possibility, I have some feet on the ground.
How do we add and multiply complex numbers using nand gates? One way is to have an explicit algorithm. Another way might be something like logical confinement, where numbers to be added or multiplied are confined in some sort of box whose equilibrium position is the sum or product of its contents [think of Feynman's articles 'sniffing out' the best route between two states] [such a box may be the initial singularity].
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Errors may sometimes be creative, but on the whole they cause loss and pain, so we might do our best to practise error free creativity.
Wednesday 20 September 2017
The checkerboard model is important because it connects aspects of spin and chirality with propagation in spacetime and is the only sum-over-paths formulation in which quantum phase is discrete at the level of paths, taking only values corresponding to the fourth roots of unity 1, ,, -1, -i. Feynman Checkerboard - Wikipedia
Alternative Natural Philosophy Association ANPA
Blake: Simone Weil: 'All true good carries with it conditions which are contradictory and as a consequence impossible. ' page 6. [do we believe this? Probably not.] Anthony Blake: Unmarked Consciousness, Simone Weil: Contradiction
Consciousness is logical continuity related to [logically continuous] cybernetic feedback.
Thursday 22 September 2017
Phases are discrete when we are dealing with a single computer running on a single clock. As soon as we introduce a network in more than one dimension of space the delay introduced by distance effectively randomizes phase through the randomization of distances between events with the result that the law of large numbers introduces continuity into the network picture. We guess that individual quantum computers each exist in its own inertial frame so that each node in the network has its own frame and communication with another quantum system (particle) introduces Lorentz transformation which mix space and time, or more precisely, enable us to unmix the mixture caused by relative motion so that one frame sees all the other frames obeying the same laws as it does.
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The veil of incorporation is one of the many veils devised to hide wealth and its accompanying power from taxation, control, theft, envy and other forces that would like to cut down the tall poppies [and acquire their resources].
Friday 23 September 2017
tantricweb. Into marketing. Christianity renovated Judaism by staging a personal visit of God to Earth. Christianity is now one hundred times bigger than Judaism. The diea here is to do a similar renovation on Catholicism, moving it from a solipsistic sect to a truly catholic view that embraces everybody. Scientific theology is a foundation for this catholicism because science is catholic. All revelations of divinity in the world are the input to science, which seeks to fit all phenomena into a unified view of everything. The purpose of the transfinite network is to expand the scientific vision into the theological realm.
SPIRITUALITY : the superposition of simplicity (unity) and complexity (diversity).
Go forth and multiply: the aim of any organism that wants to beat death. I want to put death in its context, its necessity and its advantages. Genesis 9:7
Settling inot my new life, the lone writer, motivated by a PhD by publication. Find a supervisor.
The game is always me first, but it may be longer or shorter. The short game, played by autocrats, usually requires violence. The long game, played by diplomats, tends towards less violence, but there is often a last straw [which needs to be adjudicated by a higher diplomatic power, if there is one].
A theology is an idea in a person's mind and it has a role
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In controlling that person's behaviour. The purpose of theology is to ground the noosphere. We think of the noosphere as the human cloud distributed and stored in all the people on earth more broadly in the whole Earth and more broadly still in the Universe.
Kauffman page 10: 'Discretization of space and time implicates the replacement of space-time by a network, graph or complex that has nodes for points and edges to represented significant relationships between points.'
Noyes in Amson & Kauffman page 386. John C Amson and Louis H Kauffman (eds)
Potential and kinetic energy are related as debt and cash [debt enables us to dig tunnels]. In the physical universe PE = KE [integrated over time] and in the fixed (stationary) solution (ie Newtonian classical) all lagrangians are zero? Is this a consequence of the digital (bitstring) approach to physics. The big thing is if this outlook solves the cosmic coefficient problem. How does this work on quantum mechanics? Read more von Neumann
Politics is a creature of the noosphere, that immense cloud of opinion and feeling which is stored in human minds. Its source is our experience and our imaginative elaborations of experience which are to some extent moulded by gossip, science, the advertising industries and spin doctors and pr operators of every stamp. It is an enormously fluid entity with very few boundaries, as we are seeing in its manifestation in the internet. The noosphere arises from the biosphere. As well as the political dreams of the noosphere, our governments need to be guided by the realities of our physical incarnation. Denying the science is ultimately a fatal option. The populist noosphere will take us all over a cliff. Excessive populism needs to be cured by applied science, like any other disease.
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Get serious enough to get a hearing.
Gleick page 5: Feynman: 'All mass is self interaction.' My mass, like an electron, is the measure of my interaction. The photon has no mass because nothing happens in it [outside space and time?]. Gleick: Genius: Richard Feynman and modern physics
In the software sense, all particles of all sizes, including me, are children of god, a layer in the transfinite network rooted in divinity.
The notion of continuum implies that quantum processes represent and process infinite volumes of data but this is not so at the level of fundamental logical operations, whose whole meaning is captured by a truth table. Later, in a computing structure, the operators are given meaning by their role in the process, nand → nandi, a broken symmetry, same nand, different meaning — symmetry breaking is the source of meaning [additional to the meaning already attached to the symmetry by its source].
The assumption that PE = KE means that all stationary Lagrangians are zero, maximum and minimum. One quantum of action [in one unit of time] means Lagrangian = 1, so how does this work? Variation of action 0, unit of action ℏ when frequency in radians. Frequency = energy = action per time, but is energy potential or kinetic or both (complex).
Logical continuity is built on simplicity, not, and, xor.
Address = vector. In the transfinite computer network address and content of address are identical, a sequence of computations or branchings.
Gleick page 51: Maupertuis: "it is not in the little details . . . that we must look for the supreme Being, but in the phenomena whose universality suffers no exception and whose simplicity lays them quite open to our sight.' Bruno Jordan
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Saturday 24 September 2017
UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (2016) UNESCO
Go public: Step 1 get a PhD to get in the door of Academia, the academic subset of the noosphere. By publication [?] which means conforming to the publisher's requirements. Need a department and a supervisor. . . .
Correlate network layers to stages in planetary development.
Particle and its meaning are generated as duals, symbol and ground [space-time is ground for elementary particles (no size)].
Insofar as we exist, god also exists by definition, since god is the creator and we are the created. The core issue is whether God is an invisible other or identical with our world. In the first case the nature and will of god can be manipulated for political purposes. This is the business plan of the Roman Catholic Church which long ago took possession of god, declared it to be a mystery and proceeded to make itself God's mouthpiece on Earth. The second approach recognises that the world we observe is god's body, the revelation of god. By studying god's body, as we study our own bodies, we learn about god and how to live with it. This is scientific theology. An important advantage of scientific theology that it has a unifying effect on theology because god is one and the scientific method guides us toward the truth.
Can go back to work now knowing that I have a path ahead.
Deakin in Amson & Kauffman page 65: We use the primary
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characteristic of classical mechanics, that all the variables are continuous. John C Amson and Louis H Kauffman (eds): Scientific Essays in Honour of H Pierre Noyes on the Occasion His 90th Birthday
Gleick page 89: 'Quantum mechanical uncertainty was the air that saved the bubble from collapse. Schrödinger's equation showed where the electron clouds would find their minimum energy, and on these clouds depended all that was solid in the world.
page 90: Feynman-Hellman theorem Hellman-Feynman theorem - Wikipedia
page 110; "Suppose radiation to be permitted only when there is a source and a receiver." φφ* [full duplex]
The Lagrangian method is similar to the logical method insofar as it concerned with the operation as a whole considering only the initial and final states and professing to know very little about the intermediate states, insofar as they may be interpolated (in classical physics) by Newtonian methods.
page 183: eiπ + 1 = 0
The photon's antiparticle is itself. It is a superposition ie periodic transformation of a particle and an antiparticle. Both are created when the photon is created; both are annihilated when the photon is annihilated. All 'observers' see photons as outside space and time, their space contracted to 0, their proper time 0, null particles that follow null geodesics. Simply an energy packet prior to space and time.
The divine life can be rather mundane, doing dishes, squeezing pimples, worrying about money and so on, but it has its moments of insight and excitement, particularly when one realizes that because the universe is divine everything is sacred, as many people and traditions hold. The events in life which we perceive are built on the enormous complexity of our own bodies and of the world, built in layer upon layers from the fundamental particles, the first
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of which is the initial singularity whose property is gravitation.
Gleick page 279; Feynman ". . . so I find the old saying that 'A Ph. D. thesis is research done by a professor under particularly trying circumstances' is for me the dead truth."
Symmetry = space [broken symmetry particle = address in space].
An electron is logically confined [cardinally confined] to a two state space, up and down. This occurs simply because there is no third state available in the electron world.
What I am trying to do by reading science books and the biographies of scientists is to fit myself more closely to the Universe which on my hypothesis is to assimilate myself to God, a common mystical ambition. Unlike those many mystics who have rejected the world, however, the thesis tells us that everything is divine and therefore sacred.
Gleick page 248: Weinberg: 'Why should the correct theories be the computable ones?' Because the Universe can compute them. It has the algorithm [can physics find it? The recognition of logical continuity might be the first step].
Feynman in Gleick page 428: "For successful technology, reality must take preference over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
Veltman pge 40: 'One truly may be thankful to nature for tis limiting itself to something which we can compute."
The hardware of the noosphere: brains and cultural artefacts. The noosphere is the cloud of history and its historical records bear the results of individuality, politics and reality.
