Notes

Sunday 11 September 2022 - Saturday 17 September 2022

[Notebook: DB 88: Salvation]

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Sunday 11 September 2022

cc19_memory: page 19: Space-time—the cosmic memory and operating system. Feeling good for a change and think I have got cognitive cosmology in the bag. I have finally found out what a ray means in quantum mechanics and understood the difference between a unitary operator and a codec, opening the way to understand the role of Hilbert space in injecting randomness into the evolutionary process. Projective Hilbert space - Wikipedia, Unitary operator - Wikipedia, Self-adjoint operator - Wikipedia, Codec - Wikipedia

Monday 12 September 2022

cc25_conclusion: Page 25: Conclusion—political constitution built on human symmetry. This is a very personal site which I have written to produce an Ansatz into the notion that if the universe is to be considered divine I have to produce a comfortable synthesis of fundamental physics and theology [in order to obtain peace from the cognitive dissonance that has affected me every since I was educated in the Catholic school system]. The principal difficulty I find in current physics is the cosmic constant problem which is approximately 10^100 times out of kilter with the observed value of the cosmic constant. The root of the problem, it seems to me, is the zero point energy of the harmonic oscillator which drives the creation and annihilation of elementary particles which are too simple to change and so must be annihilated and created to enable a reasonable understanding of the dynamics of the universe. My solution takes the form of the Turing vacuum which is understood to be a kinematic (immaterial or purely abstract) foundation of the primordial Hilbert space of the universe. Energy becomes real only as a consequence of the bifurcation of potential and kinetic which in a zero energy universe must be 0. The fundamental reservoir of negative potential is

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gravitation, which is not quantized but the fundamental driving force [potential] of creation [identical to the classical divinity].

Tuesday 13 September 2022

cc21_zero-energy: page 21: Potential + kinetic = zero energy universe. The idea becoming clear here is that spacetime and energy are created simultaneously through the Minkowski mechanism. The potential is gravitation and the kinetic is particles first of all photons and gluons and then fermions. This all has to happen at once because it is hard to see it happening in stages. Perhaps we start with 2D Minkowski space and then the creation of fermions forces spatial extension and 4D. Speculate wildly and put it to bed by midnight to be continued on cc22_gravitation, the potential of God or something like that. As I go I get deper into the woods or further out on my branch following my nose through thick and thin. Creative madness, or perhaps unconstrained lunacy.

Wednesday 14 September 2022

Things are beginning to make sense as we identify the initial singularity as unconstrained actus purus with gravitation and see gravitation as the potential which serves as the source of quantum mechanics, ie gravitation is identical to the classical god, creator of the quantum world, prior to the development of quantization and absolutely simple as shown by the continuity of the differentiable manifold. This I feel is the deepest insight so far in this project and gives me hope of success. An interesting sidelight is the role of continuous non-abelian groups in particle physics and a hope that I can provide a clear understadsing of asymptotic freedom in the form of inertial motion in the universe. Symmetry with respect to complexity then takes us all the way from the proton to the universe

These insights reduce the pain of being ostracized by my family at my daughter's wedding, excluded and treated as a criminal.

Thursday 15 September 2022

Pain may be the source of creativity and I have received much pain from my family first from my mother's Catholicism that led me to be momentarily sacrificed to the Church and now to my partners and children who have all decided (quite falsely) that I am a pedophile. The last four years, however, have brought me to the tipping point with the creation of cognitive cosmology which however ramshackle is carrying me over from hell to heaven and enlightening my old age with the fruits of my youthful (under 70 yo) struggles.

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Friday 16 September 2022

David Bowie - Wikipedia, Moonage Daydream (film) - Wikipedia, David Bowie: Moonage Daydream (live London 2002)

My mother remained a very staunch Roman Catholic until her death. She had a strong incentive. Two of her eleven children died in middle age and she looked forward to being united with them in the afterlife. She was quite bitter with the Dominican Order for expelling me as a bisexual heretic, even though by their standards they were right in their action. I was a bit of a wreck when I left but by the time I was in my 40s I was back on more or less an even keel and I came out as an unbeliever in 1987. In recent times I have gained what I know to be a totally undeserved reputation as a pedophile, which has created a bit of a division in my family. For a while I was seen as a latter day Cardinal Pell in my village but I have not really wasted my time in trying to fight this belief. I feel that family ties are stronger than misunderstanding based on gossip. This misfortune has added to my desire to discredit the Church and my latest efforts reflected in cognitive cosmology have absorbed all my energy and pain and have, at least from my point of view, made excellent progress. Jeffrey Nicholls (1987): A theory of Peace

Saturday 17 September 2022

Humanity is stretched between physics and theology. Physics produced us. We produced theology. Both disciplines arise from imagination: the divine imagination of the universe. Our human participation in the imagination of the universe. In both cases the source of the imagination is the same, it is what I have tried to explain on this website [the fact that the past does not have sufficient entropy to control the future]. From our point of view the physical imagination is unconscious, proceeding by [evolution]. We endow ourselves with consciousness and place the epitome of consciousness in the invisible omnipotent omniscient beings which are the subject of theology. We imagine them on the whole as loving parents which will look after us whatever we do. We also imagine them as violent parents who will punish us with death in one form or another if we disobey them.

Now we have come to a crunch. We have learnt that the real divine personality is determined by physics, but if we don't respect the physics we are bound to suffer by destroying the habitat that has made our lives possible.

This is the weekend I have to wrap up cc24_chromodynamics [page 24: Quantum chromodynamics: QCD] and cc25_conclusion, uniting physics and theology with the principle of symmetry with repect to complexity.

The key to asymptotic freedom is the non-linearity of gravitation which nevertheless allows null geodesics which follow a path of Minkowski spaces through the universe, ie orbits.

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As I write a cigarette seems to unlock forgotten ideas which are relevant to what I am doing, this time an old algorithmic explanation for three generations of fermions. page 24: Quantum chromodynamics: QCD, 24.9

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