Notes
Sunday 31 January 2021 - Saturday 6 February 2021
[Notebook: DB 86: Hilbert / Minkowski]
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Sunday 31 January 2021
What is the value of a divine universe? To put theology and physics on realistic bases. What is the problem? Science vs politics, ie the disconnect between reality and human minds. Aristotle was very interested in the realization of potential and invented the unmoved mover to do the work. Since then physicists have defined energy as the ability to do work and the classical definition of energy is the product of force and distance, E = F.s. In classical dimensions, E = ½mv2 → ML2T. F = ma = ML2T-2. F = ma = MLT-2, s = L, so we come round (again) to E = ML2T-2. The scientific revolution begun by Planck [120 years ago and nowhere near ended] replaced [augmented] classical physics with quantum physics and redefined energy as the product of the quantum of action by frequency, E = ℏω, where ω is the (time) rate of change of phase, dψ/dt. What does this mean for potential?
At the heart of classical physics is the conservation of energy,
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which was revealed when it was realised that there are two general forms of energy, potential and kinetic. This undid Aristotle's axiom that no potential can actualize itself [which was the foundation of his proof for the existence of the unmoved mover]. Potential is no longer a privation, but just as real as action, and so becomes endowed with active creative power, so we understand the creation of the universe by the big bang from the initial singularity as a classical example of the realization of potential energy in an explosion. How does this look in quantum theory?
The transformation from classical physics is built around reconception of potential, action, and energy which have been embedded in physics and metaphysics at least since Aristotle's time. From my point of view, trying to be a cognitive cosmologist, I am interested in coupling my personal potential to create interesting ideas to the potential represented by the initial singularity, god and the quantum of action. This is the subject of the (possible) first page of quantum theology "in the beginning".
Next we translate classical force into quantum processing in effect transforming violence into information processing. Then mathematics, logic and Hilbert space. The agent equals linear operator making unitary transformation (ie rotation) of state vector. Then quantum computation and communication.
Information is physical and causes motion: classical three dimensional E = F.s becomes quantum E = hf, which looks linear and E and f are represented by matrices .
Action is logical and does not involve space and time per se. Enerqy is the rate of action, that is the rate of processing ie inverse time so
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that energy multiplied by time gives action nℏ = E / ω = Et.
The actual processing in the universe does not occur in space-time but in Hilbert space. Spacetime acts as the medium for memory and communication, ie the operating system of the universe. This is true even of classical computers where the actually processing is done by quantum systems embedded in chips and wires embedded in spacetime which is four dimensional in order to maintain orthogonality between the underlying processes. All computing is quantum computing and always was. What the co-called quantum computing business is doing is fiddling with the interface between Minkowski space and Hilbert space.
Hilbert space is the symmetry underlying Minkowski space through the bifurcation of energy / momentum / space / time and is instantiated every time two particles [meet] in spacetime executing the interaction between them, often most easily studied in experiments where single particles are collided with one another, ie space-time is in some sense created by the tensor product of Hilbert spaces. How does pixellation in spacetime derive from quantum interactions in Hilbert space?
I know what I want. If I can pull it off the worlds of physics and theology will be reunited and the people will be saved. I know I can do it I have given myself twenty years but I see the target getting closer [after sixty years on the trail]. My thesis is good. I just have to add the insight that all classical computation (which is what the thesis is about) is built on applications of quantum computation
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since quantum mechanics is the root of the universe. Prolegomenon to scientific theology
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What can I add that they have all missed? The layered network paradigm to explain the role of symmetries in the universe, making god, the quantum of action the fundamental symmetry and then explaining the origins or energy, quantum theory, space-time etc by a chain of broken symmetries each adding a layer of structure to the universe. A big chart of details to work out, but looks like a good foundation to bring order to theology and physic.
Quantum theology is therefore an attempt to execute a mission from god: to bring the real god to the attention of the world thus throwing shade on all the other false gods which have been created by self appointed priesthoods over hundreds of thousands of years.
The Christian fraud on the public makes the works of Trump and the Republican Party look like child's play. They have kept their story of eternal life, a universe damaged by human disobedience and a solution to all our problems by human sacrifice going for two thousand years by claiming sole ownership to a false god. Salvation History - Wikipedia
Symmetry equals subroutine. So how do we do subroutines in Hilbert space? Smaller and more energetic linear operators.
A network is a set of coupled sources which are subroutines from the
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point of view of the network as a whole. Such a set of coupled sources, if it is closed, is a group and little groups can be subgroups of larger groups [and they can all be represented by matrix operators just like quantum theory].
Monday 1 February 2021
Tuesday 2 February 2021
The backbone of space is impenetrability associated with fermions, a form of orthogonality meaning that things are distinguished by their roles, so on a flat earth travelling north-south is independent of travelling east-west, but one can go in any direction by superposing these two dimensions which maintain their individuality in superposition, as do basis vectors in any space up to ℵ0 dimensions.
Wednesday 3 February 2021
quantum-theology.net home page uploaded [for the first time]
Thursday 4 February 2021
We may consider all communications to be elements of politics, either construcing or deconstructing relationships with one another and we can extend the same model to all communications in the world beginning with the fundamental ideas of bosons (constructive wavefunctions) and fermions (destructive wavefunctions}. Politics, like networks, creates communities at all scales.
Friday 5 February 2021
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Turing devised a vey simple machine which is able to do anything computable by building up longer processes out of smaller ones and networking them together [calling subroutines and listening to their answers]. This remains a fundamental in both software engineering, politics and construction of the universe. Smaller units like electrons and protons communicate with one another to create atoms, atoms communicate to create molecules and so on. As complexity increases the frequency of communication decreases. As we increase energy we come to simpler structures until we come to such simple structures that increases in energy do not break them down they simply create more of the same particles, yielding the condition we call confinement [which applies to the whole universe, which is constrained by the boundary beyond which contradiction lies, as we see with fermions]
Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler and Newton pioneered the use of algorithms to compute mathematical models of natural behaviour. They were continuing the age old work of accountants using arithmetic algorithms [initially implemented by calculi (= pebbles)] to model flows of goods and money in [flocks,] warehouses and banks. Planck produced an algorithm to model the spectral irradiance of hot bodies, and Bohr,Heisenberg. Schrödinger, Dirac and von Neumann laid the foundations of quantum mechanical calculations, where the coupling to reality is through [two scales of] frequencies [one] representing energy and [the other the] rate of occurrence of events like the creation and annihilation of photons.
Possibility is defined by existing structure [complete sets of events].
Saturday 6 February 2020
What is the point of quantum-theology.net? It is that if
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we consider just the Hilbert space domain of the theory of the world we find that it fulfils all the requirements for divinity, that is omnipotence and omniscience. Omnipotent because it can achieve anything that does not involve contradiction. Omniscience because it has no bounds on its information content.
What is the problem with this view? It is what has traditionally been called the quantum measurement problem. From the point of view of quantum computation, this is the notion that a quantum computer is infinitely more powerful than a Turing machine, but this power cannot be applied to the real world because the interface between Hilbert space and Minkowski space is "throttled" by the quantum of action manifesting as the uncertainty principle.
What is the solution? We must abandon the view that Minkowski space is mathematically perfect [continuous] as described by analytic function theory and accept that it too is quantized, ie pixellated by the underlying quantum processes and that uncertainty is not a defect, but the key to the creativity of the divine universe.
We understand genes in Bayesian statistics as creating both prior states that constrain future states, but which also contribute their own variety to variations in future states.
[uploaded a new version of quantum-theology.net/index]
Our emotional processes are closely analpgous to
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quantum processes in that any given stimulus may evoke one of a wide range of responses from an individual and we characterize personalities by a Born type assessment of an individual's responses to the various inputs which we all commonly receive in life on a many dimensional scale whose two fundamental vector might point toward optimism and pessimism, life half full and life half empty.
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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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Hofstadter, Douglas R, and Daniel C Dennett, The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul, Bantam 1985 Jacket: 'In this unique, mind-jolting book, DH, the author of G¨del, Escher, Bach, the intellectual best seller that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize, and Philosopher Daniel Dennett, author of the widely acclaimed Brainstorms, explore the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology and much more. . . . '
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