Notes DB 91: Divine_Gravitation_2024
Sunday 23 June 2024 - Saturday 29 June 2024
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Sunday 23 June 2024
Am I getting anywhere at learning how the world works? My story of naked gravitation, Hilbert space, quantum mechanics and bifurcation of gravitation into potential and kinetic energy seems to parallel both quantum field theory, democracy, capitalism, and the progress of evolution and science, say five points of contact that need explanation and dismiss the omnipotent and omniscient creator and Standard theory. Jeffrey Nicholls (2024b): Cognitive Cosmogenesis
Since childhood I have been looking for the orgasmic pleasure promised in the Catholic vision of God. Now that I reached a post-reproductive age I get it, and more, stronger and more lasting, from thinking and writing. I have just received a rejection of my book from Harvard University Press and suhggested they look again by reminding them of the synopsis to chapter 27 and my (now, see above) six insect legs: initial singularity, gravitation, quantum mechanics, the evolution of both nature and science, democrcy and capitslism,[Chapter 27: The political consequence of physical theology The idea of top down Catholicism is that the omnipotent and omniscient creator not only totally controls every moment of every event in the world but also passes instructions to humanity through the Church on Earth to control their behaviour. An imperial picture. Here we work from the bottom up. A key to the connection of theology and physics is symmetry with respect to complexity. Although the difference in scale between fundamental particles and an ideal democratic polity is immense, they are both formally quite similar. Democratic politics works well in Hilbert space. Voting itself is linear, a form of superposition distributed by parties. Individuals and political parties are characterized by their directions in political space which may be modelled as vectors in a Hilbert space. We may imagine a space with the same number of dimensions as the population. Every person is represented by a basis vector and their sums in various combinations present us with a comprehensive picture of the political directions in an electorate. Such ideal democratic political systems have natural quantum mechanical support which gives us insight into the nature of the world.]
Darwin: The Origin of Species; Me: The Origin of the Universe
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Read the book again and send a copy to Calypso.
I suppose I want world domination because I think that I am the only one that knows the answers, or more to the point, I am the only one I know of because even though I have doubts about myself, I feel that I am the only one with an Aristotelian picture running from the initial singularity and naked gravitation to the whole Universe as it is embodied in human planetary politics and the search for answers to war and survival / salvation. So the definition of salvation is stable human life on a healthy living planet until the Sun becomes intolerable, which gives us about five billion years to find an alternative. This seems to provide an adequate prolegomenon to the Prima secundae and then we can begin to outline the social and political principles to achieve this based on the idea that our bodies are an example of an evolutionary 'state of the art' entity whose various shortcomings are now in many cases being dealt with by medical science and whose mental unity is to be established by a scientific theology, that is a scientific theory of everything that puts us in line with our environment rather than thinking of ourselves
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as pilgrims in a doomed world due for an apocalyptic makeover by some outside divine force: the creater who made the divine world of angels and people who then proceed to upset the creator so much that they destroyed all their perfect work out of pique. [They] only conceded to fix it after they made their own son human and arranged for him to be tortured to death for their pleasure [, satisfaction] and reconciliation with their creatures, about half of whom are condemned to hell anyway.
This little essay can be a record of the picture I asm trying to replace with the picture that I see whose guiding principles are gravitation and quantum mechanics. Quantum theory is built on the idea that gravitation is divine, the original omnipotent empty mind (I should not call it a primordial thug). It is simply the primordial Buddhist ideal, maybe. Should find and read Suzuki and Roger Jackson. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (2013): Studies in Zen, Roger Jackson (1999): Buddhist Theology: Critical reflections by contemporary Buddhist Scholars
So a plan is emerging. Unfortunately I have to go on criticizing the imperial transformation of Christianity while protecting the parable of the Good Samaritan; love god (Earth) and each other as the cells in my body love my body and love each other.
I asm pleased to feel that I have got some answers after my long theological saga and it is good in
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a way that I started with Catholicism which I come to see more or less gets everything wrong which simplifies things in a way since the closest thing to the truth it is the exact opposite, they are really only one bit apart.
Aquinas's actus purus becomes naked gravitation and gods ideas become in the first instance quantum mechanics, a balloon that maintain the same shape as we blow it up from a qubit to a space with countably infinite dimensions which can be arranged in a transfinite hierarchy of ordered sets, illustrating the power of my current favourite principle: symmetry with respect to complexity.
Monday 24 June 2024
I suppose that the bottom line is that I am happy in my work and receiving the reward promised by old mate Thomas Aquinas, visions of god that I wish to capture in writing and propagate to make other people happy despite the ancient momentum of traditional belief. Momentum, in the cognitive Universe, is a psychological trait, a state of mind [that keeps us moving at constant speed in a straight line unless we are acted upon by a force (Newton's first law)].
Taking a nostalgic look through the Dominican Province of Australia site and come across a page entitled The Source of Discernment which discusses how people finish up in the Order. This led to the thought that if God had a effective role in my vocation [to the religious life] Their plan was to give me an inside look at
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religious life so that I would become a heretic and get kicked out in order to devote my life to a real scientific theology which would tell the truth about God to replace all the Catholic rubbish that they have had to put up with for nearly 2000 years. Maybe I will find out one day that God is on my side and I will have a bit of success with my work, but I am not banking on it. I just do what I have to do and maybe it will go viral long after I am dead. Dominican Order, Australia: The Journey of Discernment
The big weakness in all my bright ideas is the lack of numbers that make the proponents of quantum field theory so proud, and I do not know where they really come from except by measurements which ultimately go back to the fundamental constants for which we have no explanation [although we do know that the velocity of light is the coupling constant between space and time and the gravitational constant couples energy to the curvature of space]. I am saying that quantum mechanics finds stationary points and gravitation gives them energy which appears as mass in those particles that can come to rest in Minkowski space. Those that travel at the speed of light and are massless and have energy proportional to inverse time, ie E = hf. How do we compute the mass of an electron? By the [energy of the] photons that constitute it.
Can we say that entropy is a count [of points] per unit of space and energy is a count of [complete waves] per unit of time. Entropy is the inverse of the amount of energy per particle, ie S = Q/T.
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What am I looking for? What Thomas had. A firm life of [accepted] belief and an exciting job, and the beautiful supportive environment of the monastery. I haven't got a monastery [any more] I have a world and a Universe, far more beautiful and interesting if I can see it and see everybody else seeing it, ie make the transition from theology / psychology to a religi0n / feeling.
Tuesday 25 June 2024
Looking to go back to the original masterplan for natural theology.net in the section titled Development in 15 sections last revised on 7 August 2014, so its tenth anniversary is coming up and it might be time to fill out all the unwritten slotd now that cognitive cosmogenesis has consolidated my view of the relationship between physics and theology. I am pleased with the foresight shown in this structure as it confirms the steadiness of
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I have been following and I should have a look at reader statistics for this section of the site. Only got as far as Dev04_physic but it is pretty much on the track that I have followed since and the natural theology site is still my home.
So next job : read Nielsen and Chuang and finish development section of naturaltheology.net.
No response from Publisher's Marketplace listing. Next more Stanford UP. Erica Wetter
Macmillan.
Visibility: one has to send a signal to be seen. I have to cut down my ouvre to advertising slogans.
Wednesday 26 June 2024
I have spent all my time since 1964 when I discovered Lonergan and became turned on to the parallel ideas that the Universe is both divine and psychological, following my own groove and cognitive cosmogenesis is the conclusion that I have reached but it is a bit complex and obscure and now I have to strip it down and present it as a naked truth to potential publishers. In a way this is as big a job as writing the book itself since it is so far from the mainstream of theology in all denominations except perhaps Buddhism. I have to engage with the weight of my work which I have taken very lightly, staying within my capacity as I would when running a marathon, but now I am coming toward the end and I can see I am far head of the competition (if there is any) and so must get my story out vis mainstream publication which demands a lot of refinement.It is quite clear that theocracies, particularly the Christian Churches, are by far the biggest purveyors of false information on the planet beginning with the idea that we are eternl, the world is wrescked by sin and there is to be an apocalyptic
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reconstruction that will put the theocrats in heaven and their opposition in hell.
Submission sent to Stanford UP.
Submission to Bloomsbury through Academic Proposal Form.
Because it has enormous power the scientific community has largely avoided confronting the mythology of the religious community and we can see the results in the article by Renée DiResta in the NYTimes. Article re this to NYT? Renée DiResta: What Happened to Stanford Spells Trouble for the Election
Thursday 27 June 2024
[Submission] to Bloomsbury posted.
What next? My feeling is that the core of my next dissertation should be principle 7 (magic number) quoted in the synopsis of Chapter 27: 'Although the difference in scale between fundamental particles and the ideal democratic polity is immense, they are both formally quite similar. Democratic politics works well in Hilbert space. Voting itself is linear . . . [or at least should be].
Read through Cognitive Cosmogenesis and send a copy to Calypso.
Evicted by George.
The enormous variety of sounds in our lives gives an insight into the versatility of quantum mechanics [but we must remember that every 'point' in space could be emitting a different sound and they could all be superposed in abstract Hilbert space].
Friday 28 June 2024
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JohnsHopkins press, Tiffani Gasparrini Life and Physical science: email sent.
Princeton UP: email sent.
MIT emailed
Yale emailed
Saturday 29 June 2024
Pornography: How did the Universe come to this? a consequence of the interaction of false theology and the imperatives of evolution. A cost / benefit analysis might bring it down to the clitoris, the benefit that inclines females to pay the cost of reproduction, thereby facilitating the survival of the species that have this mechanism. Males have a similar mechanism but it does not seem to be so good at promoting the long term fidelity necessary to create viable offspring. Pornography is in effect a short cut largely motivated by males seeking the benefits without the costs, a consequence of the advantage of predation.
The dimensions of Hilbert space are complex and kinematic
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rays which can be adjusted in any superposition to arrive at any value between 0 and 1 by changing the "time" parameter.The theocrats want fertility control to populate their armies, soldier of God.
My book is a bit repetitive snd episodic [Bidenesque?] but it is also outrageous from the point of view of the theological establishment, as Jesus was, and it is time I think for a total rewrite which brings this home - some sort of title like god is gravity, gravity is god, built around evolution and P vs NP, with built in anti-pornographic treatment of lust and sexuality, in fact an essay on potential and lust for life, exercised by a mindless omnipotent. I am slowly reorienting myself from knowledge to action on the basis of my new knowledge of the action of the Universe and the supremacy of gravitation becoming limited by quantum
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mechanics. Gravitation believes in ultraviolet catastrophe (ie black holes) and quantum mechanics prevents it (Hawking and Ellis's time reversed black hole). P versus NP problem - Wikipedia
Maybe go for novel / poetry vs techno. I do not have to demonstrate my technical competence so much, just let people assume it is as long as it is a good yarn, but I am not sure if that siis what I want to do.
Submitted to Dublin UP. In a nutshell cognitive cosmogenesis is an evidence based attack on murderous theocrats.