Notes
Sunday 6 February 2022 - Saturday 12 February 2022
[Notebook: DB 87: Cognitive Cosmology]
[page 184]
Sunday 6 February 2022
Dreaming of gravitation. The US Republican Party is an example of the power of falsehood to control politics and provides insight into the success of the false narratives propagated by the Christian churches about the nature and role of humanity in the Universe.
[page 185]
If it is a good feeling (beatitude) that I want, I have got it. The next run through E30 is going well, the relationship between Hilbert and Minkowski is improving and I feel that gravitation will find a slot soon, and then it will be downhill to a theory of everything, a long way from current theology and physics, but I feel that they will soon be in love with one another.
Monday 7 February 2022
the basic mechanism of quantum theory is superposition as we learn from the double slit experiment, greatly simplified by illuminating the slits with a monoenergetic beam of particles whose rate of phase change is therefore constant so that the superposition of period over time builds a steady pattern.
The notion that quanta of action act at random in the initial singularity suggests that the system produces a random spectrum of energies subject to the general constraint of the axiomatic theory of probability that the probabilities of the symbols ei emitted by the initial source are normalized to 1, so Σi pi = 1 and we have a flat random distribution unlike, for instance, the black body spectrum.
Given E = hf = h/t where t is the interval between random actions, we arrive at the simultaneous (causal, tautological) creation of energy and time and, in a Hilbert space without spatial distance in the Minkowski sense, a growing superposition of a normalized random spectrum of phases. This structure is similar to the standard quantum field theoretical vacuum but perhaps constrained by no-cloning to eliminate [duplication of identical states] and the cosmic constant problem that arises when we introduce the continuum of frequencies imagined to exist in continuous Minkowski space. So in the beginning we are looking at a superposition of random phases rather like Feynman's path integral.[page 186]
In my waking dream I simulate twisting my ankle. The foot twitches but nothing really happens. Perhaps this is simply a safety drill encouraging me to take care walking over uneven ground.
The interface between Hilbert and Minkowski carries two streams of information: definition of events by eigenvectors [an alphabet of symbols] and probability of these events by eigenvalues between them defining an observable information source analogous to an idea in my mind appearing, like this, in writing or in a social situation, in speech.
Another argument for the spatial independence of quantum mechanics may revolve around the effect of the vector potential on quantum phases.
Working for Trump, or any organization is like being a Catholic priest or bishop: part of the job is toeing the party line.
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Eyes of Tammy Faye. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021 film) - Wikipedia
Pseudo Christianity corrupted by the [Pentacostal] gospel of prosperity (for the ministerial class [rather like the Bishops and Cardinals of the Catholic Church]. Perhaps I do not want to identify as a preacher after all and will not propagate my ideas beyond adopting a persona of a quiet and sincere scientist trying to interpret the evidence available from our scientific knowledge of the world in a theological (theory of everything) frame.
Have I got a story about gravitation, the attraction of energy for the energy arising by the emergence of energy in the Hilbert space emerging in the initial singularity. Not really, but it must have something to do with consistency, continuity and the quantum of action that lays the foundation for quantum mechanics.
[page 187]
Good idea about gravitation while I was driving but it has gone now, but at least I know that is is in there somewhere and I might find it again.
Quantum mechanics, linear, complex and periodic. Relativity real, continuous, quadratic.
Observation is part of physics so our counts of entropy are a function of what we can see. Looking at the universe as a whole we see but one thing, entropy zero. Only when we get inside do we see the count going up. Gravitation has a count of four dimensions. All else is Gaussian coordinates which are continuous and differentiable and not countable so the entropy of the gravitation universe is log2 4 = 2 [bits].
We want to rescue the term god from the false gods and the term preacher from the false preachers.
Muss es sein? Es muss sein. String quartet no 17. String Quartet No 16 (Bethoven) - Wikipedia
Must it be? It must be. So never give up on creating the quantum initial singularity. Despite these moments of despair, temporary judgements of impossibility must be rejected.
But how do we break through? We have created a model of the universe that can do it (it has done it) but can we? So the big question for which there can only be dozens of trials is how does gravitation harmonize with action?
Must remember that we are creating space within the initial singularity and as soon as we have created any quanta of action (rays in Hilbert space) they will start to interact with one another and create spacetime and so gravitation can get under way confined to what is initially a small place so it will necessarily be curved. So now I am happy again once I can see a way forward.
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Wednesday 9 February 2022
Photons 'appear' in spacetime as point particles travelling on null geodesics carrying quantum states from their source to their destination. They are very versatile, capable of carrying any energy state and being their own antiparticle and at high enough energies being a source of all the massive particles. We guess that they are the creators of spacetime and their role in this is to carry states along null geodesics, coupling sources and carrying information.
Another catlike day, rejoicing in the insights into quantum theory and revealed last night. The pressure comes off when I can see a way forward and the only task is to formulate it. Brain works best when it is horizontal.
The observation conundrum. Von Neumann finds that observation increases entropy. Zurek finds that observation realizes information from complex entropy by selecting one possibility out of many, the 'collapse' of the wave function. How does this relate to the interfce between Holbert and Minkowski space? Another part of a jigsaw with many pieces still to be fitted together. Sometimes it takes a few hours (days or years) to extract a sentence out of the mix, very like the quantum mechanical business of completing a possible operation under the misnomer "decay".
Crossan page 4: [Jesus:] 'Your Roman Empire, Pilate, is based on the injustice of violence but my divine kingdom is based on the justice of non-violence.' John Dominic Crossan (2007): Jesus against Rome, Then and Nowpage 5: 'Is Bible-fed Christian violence supporting or even instigating our [US] violence as the New Roman Empire'.
page 12:
' 1. military power: monopoly and control of force and violence;
2. economic power" monopoly and control of labour and production;
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3. political power: monopoly and control of organization and institution; and
4. ideological power: monopoly and control of interpretation and meaning.
Crossan page 13: 'Rome's ideological power was created by Roman imperial theology . . . Persuasive advertising accepted very swiftly by all sides.
page 14: non-violent vs violent power
page 15: '. . . when Jesus of Nazareth, Paul of Tarsus and John of Patmos came against the Roman Empire, they did so not with military, economic or political power, but exclusively with ideological power.'
page 16: 'I begin with key texts from the Augustan poets Virgil, Horace and Ovid, and continue with the most important inscriptions dictated by Augusts himself. These texts and inscriptions were constitutive of the Roman imperial theology from Augustus, through Augustus and even after Augustus.'
Virgil: 1. Heavenly decrees; 2. ancient lineage
page 17: 3. prophetic promise. '. . . notice that [Rome's] manifest destiny was never just about rule over Italy or the Mediterranean but about dominion over the whole world.'
page 18: 4. divine victory. Octavian's naval victory off Actium. Battle of Actium - Wikipedia
Here I see that my purpose is to get the whole scientific community behind evidence based theology to overcome the remnants of empire in the Roman Catholic Church and the United States.
page 19: Caesar Augustus was unique in having achieved divine status while still alive.
page 22: '[Octavian] From here I went forth under heavenly
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protection to complete my divine mission and fulfill Rome's imperial destiny.'
Crossan page 23: Octavian's monument and 'Rome's imperial theology: religion, war, victory, peace—or more briefly—peace through victory.'
page 25: 'The emperor's divinity was the incarnate heart of Roman imperial theology and stayed as such long after Augustus was dead.'
page 30 '. . . civilization itself . . . has always been imperial — that is empire is the normalcy of civilization's violence.'
page 31: Jared Diamond: [chapter] "From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy". Jared Diamond (1997): Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
page 33: Ronald Wright: A Short History of Progress
Wright: 'people afraid of outsiders are easily manipulated. The warrior caste, supposedly society's protectors, often become protection racketeers.'
page 35: Jame Madison: 'Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.'
page 36: Big question: 'Is the normalcy of human civilization's violence our inevitable destiny. . . . Or can we change the normal brutality of civilization. My own answer is in the affirmative . . . '
Evolution suggests that all systems cooperate when resources are available for all and only turn to violence when confronted by real or imagined zero-sum situations.
Always on edge. Will my work ever go anywhere? Can only press on, revising all the time.
[page 191]
In the end, beginning with Constantine, Jesus was sold out to the Roman Empire and by the Middle Ages the Church was a corrupt militaristic organization practising conversion by war and eventually provoking the Reformation which scrapped the work of the medieval theologians and reverted to basing itself on the rather dodgy text of the Bible and abandoning any attempt at bringing theology into the fields of science and human rights.
We study the quantum world by spectroscopy, stimulating it by methods that range from bunsen burners to the Large Hadron Collider and measuring the characteristics of the particles that are emitted, ranging from photons to the full range of fundamental particles. Although physicists and machines in the real physical world are the source of this stimulation and the observers, we know that what we are provoking is the interaction of invisible quantum states with one another, the process we call measurement. Spectroscopy - Wikipedia
Thursday 10 February 2022
Zurek shows that the selection process for systems to move from imaginary to real is the condition that information can be transferred from Hilbert to Minkowski. Now we have the creation of spacetime by the random interactions of vectors and operators and we imagine that two classes of particles are formed, bosons and fermions. We have two constraints: the system is closed and therefore the Minkowski space is curved; the fermion network requires interference free communication so we require three real dimensions. This, plus the continuity of spacetime takes care of gravitation. Now we turn to the question of the zero energy universe and potential and kinetic energy and introduce the Lagrangian and the quantum of action. And then we introduce zero charge, positive and negative, magnetism and the vector potential and give a final brief summary of QED. Then quantum chromodynamics. The mad explorer, crashing through the bush, hoping to discover something worthwhile and get through. Wojciech Hubert Zurek (2008): Quantum origin of quantum jumps: breaking of unitary symmetry induced by information transfer and the transition from quantum to classical
[page 192]
My task seems to be the opposite of film making. In films one is trying to make a single point with a vast amount of data. In my work I am trying to encompass the whole universe in a few tens of thousands of words, much less than a megabyte.
Friday 11 February 2022
. . .
What I have been trying to record is a fantastic (derived from fantasy) journey through the first steps toward a universe. It may seem beyond belief, but it is based on a few principles. My two loves are Aquinas and Einstein. Both believed strongly in basing theory on obvious principles. Aquinas based his work on per se nota, generally reliable, and the doctrine of the Catholic Church, largely false. But with the help of Aristotle's rational common sense he did the best job possible at the time. Unfortunately he lived at a time when the Catholic Church was becoming more and more militaristic, but one light in this darkness was the introduction of Aristotle to the west [via the Crusades]. Christopher Tyerman (2019): The World of the Crusades
Einstein did a lot better. The special theory of relativity is unassailable and the Lorentz transformation and its consequences revolutionized classical physics and led to the foundation of a picture of the universe as a whole. At the core of his theory was the belief that physics is completely independent of observers and frames of reference any more specific than Gaussian coordinates whose only significant structure is four dimensions and an ordered relationship between arithmetic [the real numbers] and geometry. He implemented the notion of general covariance using tensor calculus in Riemann's differentiable manifold. This approach seems quite reasonable when dealing with massive astronomical entities like the Sun, but does not work in quantum theory where everything revolves around a
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conscious universe observing itself in the invisible realm of Hilbert space. Here, I hope, cognitive cosmology provides the route toward arriving at a theory of everything that unites physics and theology. Jeffrey Nicholls (2021): Essay 30: Cognitive Cosmology
We see the transition from Hilbert to Minkowski as a form of two factor authentication. In the computer industry we distinguish data from program or software. In quantum mechanics we distinguish the Heisenberg picture from the Schrödinger picture but in the initial singularity the distinction might be blurred and reality be a superposition of both pictures so we cannot distinguish between operators (software) and vectors (data). After a morning of sterility washing the car and thinking nothing, this paragraph pops into my head It gives me confidence that 60 years thinking about physics may have left a few useful traces in my mind.
What is the difference between the QED vacuum and the vacuum proposed here? The vacuum here is much more constrained arising from the action of action and the information transfer noted by Zurek to be the cause of 'the collapse of the wavefunction' so we do not have the infinity of states and the infinitesimal particles and the need for screening to renormalize the system in QED. In QCD on the other hand we do not need the antiscreening to explain asymptotic freedom but perhaps we can do it with fixed point theory and the notion of consistency which closes the universe in the same was as it closes protons.
Saturday 12 February 2022
1. Nothing comes from nothing;
2. Everything comes from action;
3. Action inevitably leads to energy;
4. Everything is made of energy;
5. The total energy of the universe, potential + kinetic = 0.
