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Sunday 17 April 2022 - Saturday 23 April 2022

[Notebook: DB 88: Salvation]

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Sunday 17 April 2022

The key to any craft is repetition and gradual improvement which can be boring but is necessary to approach perfection. One of my first experiences of this was the tedious job (never completed) of polishing a telescope mirror to perfection, and writing is the same. This morning I start reluctantly because I know what I want to say, have said it many time before and wonder if doing it again is worth the effort.

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Monday 18 April 2022

What is the point of page cc11_communication? It uses Shannon's discussion of communication in the presence of noise to show that the continuous solutions to the energy equation cannot be deterministic and that they must instead be confined to discrete quanta in a set of cardinal 0 in order to be deterministic and this fits into the quantum nature of the world.

This argument is in favour of replacing the continuous mathematics that causes so much trouble in quantum field theory with the logical mathematics which is characteristic of the actual practice of mathematics in which proofs are conveyed in digital logical arguments whose continuity is analogous to Aristotle's use of the middle term in his syllogisms.

This idea has been bubbling along in my mind for a long time, but now I can see a way to prove it, using the argument in Shannon's paper. This seems to me to be the fundamental insight necessary to unite physics and theology, replacing analytic continuity with logical continuity. By establishing logical continuity in Hilbert space we can carry it over into Minkowski space.

One of the beauties of my life is that as I trudge along step by step I am regularly hit by new insights that change my direction, rather like having a new child. My first attempt to do an honours year came to an end when the pregnancy of my partner made it impractical to complete the necessary fieldwork and drew me back home. Now, old and single, such problems are not possible and I can devote all my energy to nurturing my intellectual babies who are multiplying and growing up in a rather exciting way. My laziness suggests to me that because it is Easter Monday and a public holiday, this insight justifies my taking a day off writing and doing something recreational, but what? There is little choice but to write on, constructing new representations of my new theological home.

Tuesday 19 April 2022

Shannon discusses communication in the presence of noise in function space. He sees noise as creating a region of uncertainty around each point in the function space representing either a message or a symbol [signal] and shows that by coding messages into symbols in blocks these blocks are placed so far apart on the signal space that confusion is very improbable. We do not see any noise in Hilbert space but we do see the vectors are discrete and orthogonal which creates a region of uncertainty around

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points in function space by restricting the dimensions of Hilbert space to 0, as opposed to a continuous function space where the dimensions are 1, we separate the vectors in a manner analogous to coding in real space to prevent confusion.

Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs Manhunter (film) - Wikipedia, Silence of the Lambs (film) - Wikipedia

Wednesday 20 April 2022

Feeling good, and why not, given the sea of troubles around me. Have decided to give the Greens party [some] of my trading profit to their campaign for the Australian election, and have begin work on a key page of my cognitive cosmology site, the creation of Minkowski space from Hilbert space by the cosmic discovery of the Minkowski metric. This may feel too good to be true, but on the other hand if the universe started as a quantum initial singularity prior to space-time something like this event must have occurred on the way from then to now, and on the layered network principle must still exist and be effective now.

Thursday 21 April 2022

Can I convince myself that cc12_hilbert-minkowski is reasonable? Write it out and look at it from a distance.

Invisibility (cc15). Deep inelastic scattering shows that there are moving parts inside the proton and it is stable and constructed of first generation quarks and massless gluons [the sum of] whose rest mass is much less than the actual mass of the proton which is mostly contributed by the kinetic energy of the gluons and quarks. There is obviously a lot of stuff going on inside stable massive particles which is invisible. The second and third generation massive fermions are unstable and this suggests that their inner processes are high energy making them massive but unstable because these processes are in some way inefficient and unable to produce stable second and third generation particles which are therefore inclined to decay back to the stable first generation particles. In general more massive versions of the proton are rendered unstable by the instability of their components and so have very short lives ("resonances"), ie they are quickly selected out and their excessive energy put to better use. So the long lived proton is effect a model of the universe of stable particles using the minimum energy necessary to carry out the essential processes need to maintain their existence. The processes in stable particles are maximally efficient and invisible

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because they have no energy to spare to make their insides visible. Cool idea. Richard E. Taylor (1990): Deep Inelastic Scattering: The Early Years: Nobel Lecture December 1990 (I), Henry W. Kendall (1990): Deep Inelastic Scattering: Experiments on the Proton and the Observation of Scaling (II), Jerome I Friedman (2018): Deep Inelastic Scattering: Comparisons with the quark model: Nobel Lecture 1990 (III)

A rest now and then complete draft of cc12_Hilbert_minkowski which yields stable spacetime a stable particles proton and electron.

Friday 22 April 2022

Variation arising from uncertainty is the creative input to evolution and I am blessed with plenty of that. The selective process is where the judgements come in, reading back over old stuff to see if it is still consistent with the evolving project.

It is one thing to say that the variation in Hilbert space introduced by superposition led to the creation of Minkowski space by discovering the Minkowski metric but how can we express the algorithm behind this 'discovery' in terms of quantum computation? This needs work somewhere in the region of the measurement problem, This probably has something to do with the spin-statistics theorem and the origin of fermions which are understood to be the reason for spatial extension. The place to discuss this is in the discussion of superselection rules which will be taken up somewhere in the region of pages 20-23.

The next big problem is the communication link between Hilbert and Minkowski space and the key to the answer I hope is communication and computation and I think Zurek put his finger on it with his quantum origin of quantum jumps. Continuity does not carry information, jumps do. So the operative principle is that there is no information in a continuum. Wojciech Hubert Zurek (2008): Quantum origin of quantum jumps: breaking of unitary symmetry induced by information transfer and the transition from quantum to classical

A common evil product of false theologies and religions are crusades and inquisitions. Both these evils were invented by the Roman Catholic Church, the Crusades based on the biblical fiction that Jesus of Nazareth was God and the city of his religion had been taken over by an alien religion. The answer: To slaughter the Muslims who lived in Jerusalem. Once this was more or less achieved [temporarily] the crusading spirit moved on to the heretics of Southern Europe. The Dominicans and Franciscans were founded to combat this heresy assisted by murderous inquisitions designed to eliminate individual unbelievers. Now we have the psychotic murderer Putin egged on by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church doing his best to flatten Ukraine and murder its people, all in the name of the same God that led Constantine to victory and ordered

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Moses to murder the unbelievers at Sinai. All these following in the steps of the God Yahweh who drowned every living creature except one boatload because they had displeased him. Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia, Exodus 32: Moses slaughters the worshippers of the Golden Calf, Nick Trakakis (2022): Is Orthodoxy finished? , Flood myth - Wikipedia

Saturday 23 April 2022

cc14_measurement_problem. It has been featured for a century as the fundamental problem of quantum theory, but it has a lot to do with communication and creation so a better title for this page might be not the "measurement problem" but "measurement, creative reproduction, copying". To solve the measurement problem we must consider it in the broadest possible context, that is in the initial symmetry of action reproducing itself in action. It is a long weekend because we get a holiday on Monday, Anzac Day, to commemorate a futile episode of war when Australian troops were sent to their deaths by their imperial masters to create a diversion in the great War. It is good to remember futility as a means to avoid repeating it, but my ambition for the weekend is to succinctly capture measurement as the process of creative copying which brought the world to be by analogy to the creative copying which brought the world to be by (in Aristotelian and Platonic terms) reproducing a form [represented in Hilbert space] in new matter [Minkowski space], the target being to reproduce the form of cognitive cosmology in new minds by expressing it succinctly in words. Anzac Day - Wikipedia

Observation or measurement is the basic creative symmetry, creating entropy, the communication between Hilbert and Minkowski which serves to create Minkowski and increase entropy (von Neumann). John von Neumann (2014): Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics V:3.

I am clocking along trying to invent a word that works, rather like an internal combustion engine. Just woke up for a sec to write this but the rest of the story seems to be lost. My brain works by superposition, but it is always in periodic motions, like quantum mechanics [described in Hilbert space] , and probably forgets a lot. The memory is here, paper space [in Minkowski space], where I write down some of the thoughts as they flash by.

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Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'When Innocent III's diplomatic attempts to roll back Catharism met with little success and after the papal legate Pierre de Castelnau was murdered (allegedly by an agent serving the Cathar count of Toulouse), Innocent III declared a crusade against Languedoc, offering the lands of the schismatics to any French nobleman willing to take up arms. The violence led to France's acquisition of lands with closer cultural and linguistic ties to Catalonia (see Occitan). An estimated 200,000 to 1,000,000 people were massacred during the crusade.' back

Ben Butler, Overhaul on offshore gas mega-projects could reap almost $90bn in decade, ' Australia could reap more than $24bn over the next four years from fossil fuel multinationals by reforming a tax on offshore gas projects that has consistently failed to deliver meaningful revenue, Parliamentary Budget Office costings show. The costings were released by the Greens in support of a proposal to reform the petroleum resources rent tax (PRRT), which is supposed to ensure that the commonwealth receives a share of income from gas mega-projects including the Gorgon reserve, which is being developed by a joint venture including Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell. Liddell power station Australian wholesale power costs soaring despite Morrison government’s budget claims Read more But expenditure blowouts, lower-than-expected gas prices before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic mean that multinationals have run up $282bn in credits against the PRRT.' back

Exodus 32, Moses slaughters the worshippers of the Golden Calf, '27 Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbour'.” 28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. 29 Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the Lord today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day”.' back

Flood myth - Wikipedia, Flood myth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primeval waters found in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero, who "represents the human craving for life". ' back

Henry W. Kendall (1990), Deep Inelastic Scattering: Experiments on the Proton and the Observation of Scaling (II), ' There are three lectures that, taken together, describe the MIT-SLACexperiments. The first, written by R.E.Taylor sets out the early history of the construction of the two mile accelerator, the proposal smade for the construction of the electron scattering facility, the antecedent physics experiments at other laboratories, and the first of our scattering experiments which determined the elastic proton structure form factors. This paper describes the knowledge and beliefs about the nucleon’s internal structure in 1968, including the conflicting views on the validity of the quark model and the “bootstrap” models of the nucleon. . . . The last lecture,by J. I. Friedman (Reference 2), isconcerned with the later measurements of inelastic electron-neutron andelectron-proton measurements and the details of the physical theory - theconstituent quark model - which the experimental scattering results stimu-lated and subsequently, in conjunction with neutrino studies, confirmed. back

Jeni Loftus, In ‘Licorice Pizza’ a 15-year-old and 25-year-old fall for each other – here’s what’s known about these types of relationships, When a relationship occurs between an adolescent boy and an adult woman – like the kind in “Licorice Pizza” – it’s seen as a form of sexual exploration rather than sexual exploitation. These types of relationships are given a certain amount of legitimacy that relationships between adolescent girls and adult men don’t receive.' back

Jerome I. Friedman (2018), Deep Inelastic Scattering: Comparisons with the quark model: Nobel Lecture 1990 (III), ' The first suggestion that deep inelastic scattering might provide evidence of elementary constituents was made by Bjorken in his 1967 Varenna lectures. Studying the sum rule predictions derived from current algebra, he stated, ". . . We find these relations so perspicuous that, by an appeal to history, an interpretation in terms of elementary constituents is suggested." . . . The constituent model which opened the way for a simple dynamical interpretation of the deep inelastic results was the parton model of Feynman. He developed this model to describe hadon hadron interactions in which the constituents of one hadron interact with those of the other.' back

John von Neumann (2014), Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, ' Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics by John von Neumann translated from the German by Robert T. Beyer (New Edition) edited by Nicholas A. Wheeler. Princeton UP Princeton & Oxford. Preface: ' This book is the realization of my long-held intention to someday use the resources of TEX to produce a more easily read version of Robert T. Beyer’s authorized English translation (Princeton University Press, 1955) of John von Neumann’s classic Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik (Springer, 1932).'This content downloaded from 129.127.145.240 on Sat, 30 May 2020 22:38:31 UTC back

Liam Drew, The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch, ' In March 2017, Johnson broke his neck in a go-carting accident, leaving him almost completely paralysed below the shoulders. . . . But then Johnson’s rehabilitation team introduced him to researchers from the nearby California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who invited him to join a clinical trial of a brain–computer interface (BCI). This would first entail neurosurgery to implant two grids of electrodes into his cortex. These electrodes would record neurons in his brain as they fire, and the researchers would use algorithms to decode his thoughts and intentions. . . . “I really didn’t hesitate,” says Johnson. back

Manhunter (film) - Wikipedia, Manhunter (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Manhunter focuses on the forensic work carried out by the FBI to track down killers and shows the long-term effects that cases like this have on profilers such as Graham, highlighting the similarities between him and his quarry. The film features heavily stylized use of color to convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters' similarity has been explored in academic readings of the film. It was the first film adaptation of Harris' Hannibal Lecter novels, as well as the first adaptation of Red Dragon, which later became the basis for a film of the same name in 2002.' back

Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia, Medieval Inquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Medieval Inquisition is a series of Inquisitions (Catholic Church bodies charged with suppressing heresy) from around 1184, including the Episcopal Inquisition (1184-1230s) and later the Papal Inquisition (1230s). It was in response to large popular movements throughout Europe considered apostate or heretical to Christianity, in particular Catharism and Waldensians in southern France and northern Italy. These were the first inquisition movements of many that would follow.' back

Nick Trakakis (2022), Is Orthodoxy finished? , ' I have adapted my title from a sober judgment in a recent Facebook post by a leading Greek Orthodox theologian, Professor Petros Vassiliadis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki — in it he wrote, “Orthodoxie c’est fini” (French for “Orthodoxy is finished”). .. . . For even if the church relates to the world through democratic means (persuasion, not coercion), this does not necessarily mean that the church will also relate to itself (to its own members) in democratic fashion. And this is precisely the problem today: the Orthodox Church eschews democratic forms of (self-)governance. The laity, especially women and LGBTIQ+ persons, continue to be marginalised, while diversity, doubt, and dissent continue to be viewed as dangerous rather than as necessary elements of a flourishing, self-critical community. Is it any wonder, then, that Putin’s police-state, where protesters are arrested and detained every day and war coverage is heavily censored, would find its most faithful ally in the autocratic Russian Church? ' back

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow - Wikipedia, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow - Wikipedia, the free enecylopedia, ' Kirill or Cyril (Russian: Кирилл, Church Slavonic: Ст҃ѣ́йшїй патрїа́рхъ кѷрі́ллъ, secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, Russian: Владимир Михайлович Гундяев; born 20 November 1946) is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009. Prior to becoming Patriarch, Kirill was Archbishop (later Metropolitan) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad beginning on 26 December 1984, and also Chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations and a permanent member of the Holy Synod beginning in 1989.' back

Richard E. Taylor (1990), Deep Inelastic Scattering: The Early Years: Nobel Lecture December 1990 (I), ' Soon after the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced Henry Kendall, Jerry Friedman and I agreed that we would each describe a part of the deep inelastic experiments in our Nobel lectures. The division we agreed upon was roughly chronological. I would cover the early times, describing some of the work that led to the establishment of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center where the experiments were performed, followed by a brief account of the construction of the experimental apparatus used in the experiments and the commissioning of the spectrometer facility in early elastic scattering experiments at the Center.' back

Silence of the Lambs (film) - Wikipedia, Silence of the Lambs (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer, "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.' back

Tahir Mahmood Alam, Britain’s Trojan Horse: A hoax that still harms Muslims, ' Ultimately, the effect of the Trojan Horse hoax will be felt long into the future. The threat of similar hysteria-driven offensives remains real as long as lessons are not learned. It is for this reason that the scandal must remain unfinished business. I endorse the call of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) for an independent inquiry into the travesty, and for an investigation into establishing the origins of the Trojan Horse letter. Those who abused their power and authority in causing so much harm should be held accountable. Those unjustly and wrongfully maligned should be fully exonerated.' back

Timothy Snyder, The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word, ' In dry and sober language, they described the fates of Mariupol residents. Occasionally, though, emotion slipped through: In passing, the council members referred to the Russian perpetrators by a term of condemnation that every Ukrainian knows, though it is not yet in the dictionaries and cannot (yet) be said in English: “рашизм.” . . . Grasping its meaning requires crossing differences in alphabet and pronunciation, thinking our way into the experience of a bilingual society at war with a fascist empire. “Pашизм” sounds like “fascism,” but with an “r” sound instead of an “f” at the beginning; it means, roughly, “Russian fascism.” The aggressor in this war keeps trying to push back toward a past as it never happened, toward nonsensical and necrophiliac accounts of history. Russia must conquer Ukraine, Vladimir Putin says, because of a baptism a thousand years ago, or because of bloodshed during World War II.' back

Wojciech Hubert Zurek (2008), Quantum origin of quantum jumps: breaking of unitary symmetry induced by information transfer and the transition from quantum to classical, 'Submitted on 17 Mar 2007 (v1), last revised 18 Mar 2008 (this version, v3)) Measurements transfer information about a system to the apparatus, and then further on – to observers and (often inadvertently) to the environment. I show that even imperfect copying essential in such situations restricts possible unperturbed outcomes to an orthogonal subset of all possible states of the system, thus breaking the unitary symmetry of its Hilbert space implied by the quantum superposition principle. Preferred outcome states emerge as a result. They provide framework for the “wavepacket collapse”, designating terminal points of quantum jumps, and defining the measured observable by specifying its eigenstates.' back

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