Notes
Sunday 24 October 2021 - Saturday 30 October 2021
[Notebook: DB 87: Cognitive Cosmology]
[page 78]
Sunday 24 October 2021
The 40 years I lived in Elands feel as though they were without any particular ambition except to make steady progress on my theological research and contribute to the physical construction and maintenance of the village. The deaths of my parents . . . brought this era to a close and motivated my move to Adelaide and two years of philosophy at Adelaide University. The academic work came to a dead end with my poor honours results but the theoretical progress I made during that period fuelled a sense of ambition which has carried me through the last two years of an independent home made PhD project. This now has, in my mind, two years to run and promises, in my mind, to yield a radical revision in both quantum field theory and theology as I attempt to bring these two field into coordination with one another. I am motivating myself with a (possibly deluded) promise of success in this task. Insofar as I see much of current physics and theology as deluded, this possibility does not seem to worry me because I have the resources now to continue to follow this path to the end of my life and to publish it on the internet.
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The quantum of action is the unit of motion, the point at which logic meets dynamics, the playing field of the heuristic of simplicity.
Constructing a universe - constructing computer graphics. Computer-generated imagery - Wikipedia
Monday 25 October 2021
From an entropy point of view a Carnot engine is a machine for data compression, storing a constant amount of data at a lower temperature and returning the excess mechanical energy at zero entropy, ie "infinite" temperature, to replay the big bang all over again [at a smaller scale].
We may imagine that a quantum of action contains an unbounded amount of potential energy which we imagine to be energy contained in a null geodesic, that is a particle, at zero entropy but, by abuse of language, at infinite temperature, so we can model an explosion in general and the big bang in particular as an increase in entropy associated with the production of many 'smaller' particles with kinetic energy, as a stick of dynamite changes into a large volume of gas. Here we have a logically plausible connection of action and potential and kinetic energy, particles and Minkowski space derived from Hilbert space by the creation of new orthogonal dimensions. An application of the heuristic of simplicity built around the E = hf, dp.dx ≈ dE.dt; ≈ ℏ, E = mc2, E2 = c2p2 + (mc2)2, dx2 - dt2 = 0, a set of jigsaw pieces which all fit together if we interpret them correctly.
Cosmic [Cognitive] Cosmology [website] chapter 11 (?): Here, having developed a plausible theory of everything, we now reveal that this is in fact a theology, an updated version of the whole category of theologies that have accompanied the development of human neural culture over millennia.
The foundation of quantum theory is the ring of operators. The development of both classical and quantum electrodynamics is an attempt to imagine electrons as point particles which leads to division by zero and infinity. This breaks the circle (ring) because the essential feature of a ring is that it is a field without division. So we must go back to basics, and this basic is that the field of quantum mechanics is not Minkowski space but Hilbert space, the monarchy of the rings. Ring (mathematics) - Wikipedia, Michelle Wright, Iris DeMent, Mairead Ni Mhaonaight: Will the circle be unbroken
What is going on in the quantum world is real but half real like the operators which are somewhat indeterminate which is where the variation necessary for evolution comes from. This initial variation is enough to get the world started and then a lot of the variation is taken on by the random behaviour in the Minkowski world partly generated by the timing of network interrupts.
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Our world is full of periodic functions from the ticking of clocks to breathing, going to work, practising what we want to do over and over again and again and so on and on. So complex functions which are inherently periodic flower in physics, the study of motion which is the study of periodicity. But not exactly periodic. Many steps take us a long way, going over our problems tends to insight, millennia of generations lead to new species, particularly in the complex networks of adaptation that we call ecosystems. Within all this we see that small periodic changes lead to large periodic changes and we learn from quantum theory that the smallest action, the quantum of action, repeated innumerable times has constructed our universe of gigantic cycles like the lives of stars and galaxies. All motion involves creation and annihilation, but in the long run creation beats
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annihilation, increasing entropy and the wonderful structures of our world.
The next step is to go from detailed argument to a presentable but realistic dream of the divine universe where we travel through time at the speed of light and a load of other amazing divine features, like quantum spirituality and spooky action at a distance. Try to get this for the essay for [the Prof], all fantastic and all true. Insofar as the mind and our imagination are our sexiest organs we can imagine that cosmic cosmology is erotic cosmology, reproductive cosmology, orgasmic divine copulation rather like quantum measurement = quantum observation = quantum reproduction = quantum creation = motion driven by pleasure = playing music = release of potential = big bang = supernova = the moment of creation.
Wednesday 27 October 2021
The Australian economy is fundamentally based on mining our huge per capita land area. One aspect of this operation, the extraction and export of carbon based fuels, is stranded and must shut down. The alternative I am offering is a new true theology which provides us with a clear understanding of the human role in the life of the planet which will enable us to adapt our behaviour to the requirements of our habitat so as to ensure our stable and sustainable existence until such time as the Sun ceases to be a useful partner in our existence, about 5 billion years in the future.
Say it again. The essence of Divinity, known to Aristotle, is action, and our ability to act is evidence of our participation in divinity, as is the ability of every other entity in the Universe. In 1992 I wrote an essay on the divinity of money. Money gives us the power to act and the more money we have the more we can do [by paying others to help us]. Did I make this point in my essay 29 years ago, or did I miss it. If I missed it it is time for a second edition of the essay. Jeffrey Nicholls (1992): An essay on the divinity of money
Thursday 28 October 2021
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Friday 29 October 2021
Feynman diagrams are quite similar to the path integral method, the superposition of all possible ways a particular event can happen mapped in terms of real and virtual particles. Each link between particles is determined by the path integral, one quantum of action, but the weight of the path depends on its frequency of actualization which is a function of the Born rule which measure the probability of the actualization of a path by the inner products of what? [of its initial and final states]. Of the eigenvalues of its beginning and end which would be formally identical if the particle travelling at c and might depend on its momentum to carry it across the gap from beginning to end. Is this happening in Hilbert space or Minkowski space? We read Veltman Diagrammatica again, ignoring the Lorentz transformations of the Hilbert spaces, beginning in the morning. Feynman: FLP II_25: Chapter 25: Electrodynamics in Relativistic Notation
Saturday 30 October 2021
Does separating Hilbert space from Minkowski space save quantum field theory? If so how? Mainly by eliminating infinities and by the fact that Hilbert space is a countable set or orthogonal actions which are projected onto a pixellated Minkowski space through the continuity of communication guaranteed by the existence of null geodesics in Minkowski space. These geodesics are in effect the homes of [massless] particles and potential energy, and it may be that once we have particles we have need of 3D classical space to avoid collisions which makes fermions and stable structure possible [although there are no massless fermions]. These seem to be both weird and simple ideas that fulfil my desiderata for a consistent foundation for a theory of everything that can be comprehended by a very simple universe.
The answer (see page 80) is that the quantum of action is a circle [which is a necessary feature for a closed universe], one unit of angular momentum, 2π radians
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of phase, and the attempts by physicists to treat it as a potential infinitesimal are all doomed to failure and a source of trouble because they do not honour the atomic unity of the quantum [which we take to be an image of the initial singularity]. This unity is honoured by the fact that quantum operators are analogous to integers, elements of a ring that does not allow division and fractionation. This is my Ansatz the outcome of half a century of thinking that breaking up the quantum of action to subject it to calculus is a mistake. Now to put this into clear language and justify the separation of Hilbert and Minkowski, removing the curse of real numbers from physics [except as components of complex numbers to achieve algebraic completion].
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Further readingBooks
Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene , Oxford UP 1976 Amazon: Editorial review: 'Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.' Rob Lightner
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Lonergan, Bernard J F, and Robert M. Doran, Frederick E. Crowe (eds), Verbum : Word and Idea in Aquinas (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan volume 2), University of Toronto Press 1997 Jacket: 'Verbum is a product of Lonergan's eleven years of study of the thought of Thomas Aquinas. The work is considered by many to be a breakthrough in the history of Lonergan's theology . . .. Here he interprets aspects in the writing of Aquinas relevant to trinitarian theory and, as in most of Lonergan's work, one of the principal aims is to assist the reader in the search to understand the workings of the human mind.'
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Pétrement, Simone, and Raymond Rosenthal (translator), Simone Weil: A Life, Schocken
1988 Jacket: 'A French Jew who broke with Judaism and wavered on the edge of Roman Catholicism, the daughter of a respected physician, the sister of one of the century's greatest mathematicians, Simone Weil devoted her life to the search for truth and God amid the poverty and misery of the poor.
Since her death in 1943 at the age of thirty-four, Simone Weil has become a person of legend. T S Eliot, Dwight Macdonald, Leslie Fiedler and Robert Coles spoke of her as the saint of the twentieth century who lived the contradictions of our era more intensely and continuously than anyone else.'
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Weil, Simone, On Science, Necessity and the Love of God, Oxford University Press 1968
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Jeffrey Nicholls (1992), An essay on the divinity of money , ' The rise of science questioned revelation and the churches as sources of truth, but they have remained in existence because science still lacks the power to ask or answer the fundamental questions of life and death that concern theology.
Here I outline a new scientific theology whose model of god derives not from ancient text but from the mathematical theory of text and communication itself. I propose that this model describes the universe of our experience, which is therefore fittingly called god.
I then interpret this model using elements of current physical theory. These ideas are then applied to money.
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Michelle Wright, Iris DeMent, Mairead Ni Mhaonaight, Will the circle be unbroken, I was standing by my window
On a cold and cloudy day
When I saw the hearse come rolling
For to carry my mother away.
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky.
Well, I went back home, home was lonely
For my mother she was gone
And all my family there was cryin'
For out home felt sad and alone.
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky.
Undertaker, undertaker, undertaker
Won't you please drive slow
For that lady you are haulin'
Lord, I hate to see her go.
Will the circle be unbroken
By and by Lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky.
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky Lord, in the sky...
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