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Notes DB 91: Divine_Gravitation_2024

Sunday 30 June 2024 - Saturday 6 July 2024

Sunday 30 June 2024

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Monday 1 July 2024

What next? Article defending / explaining my key point, ie placing Hilbert space at the foundation of the Universe, built on / in gravitation [initial singularity]. Data from Nielsen and Chuang. Nielsen & Chuang (2016): Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

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How do we do this? Assume initial singularity then entropy argument from heuristic of simplicity then go to symmetry with respect to complexity all conducted in Hilbert space beginning with qubit - this to become backbone to letter to Cambridge UP explaining Cognitive Cosmogenesis.

I have written a beautiful book and now I have to sell it. The problem: find a path from the initial singularity.

The Thomistic answer fails because absolute simplicity and [omniscience] are incompatible because information is physical.

The big bang fails because it is just a 'Hail Mary' imagining an impossible explosion from the initial singularity from which the Universe condenses out. The evidence is high energy accelerator experiments but there is no explanation.

So my story . . . Another morning I go from despair to excitement. It is so regular I can bank on it. Check the Adelaide house sitter jobs.

Tuesday 2 July 2024

Catholic doctrine is a debunked hypothesis because

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its fundamental assumption is impossible, that the initial singularity is omniscient. Should I drop the personal back-story. No simply phrase is as in Einstein's 'On the electrodynamics of moving bodies' and go on to show that the truth is stranger than fiction.

We treat the Nicene Creed as an hypothesis. This creed makes no mention of the central core of Christianity as stated by its eponymous founder, love god, love your neighbour, but it does represent an hypothesis about the structure of reality [the fictitious cosmology prevailing among the bishops of Nicea].

[Housing connect 132 299, Housing Advice Appointment Croydon Park Tuesday 23, 9.30 am, 340 Torrens Road.]

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Truth may be stranger than fiction and it is infinitely powerful. The fictional superpersons can all fly unaided but this does not reflect reality and flying requires specially designed and constructed machinery [as discovered by dinosaurs, birds and Wright brothers].

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[Cognitive cosmogenesis] Chapter 5: Eternity, time, Hilbert space — time, complex numbers, fixed points Hilbert space but Turing and Gödel tell us that this fixation and determinism does not really constrain the Universe. A lot of what I have written in the book has meaning that I did not understand while I waa recording it. Rewriting the annotated table of contents for Manchester University is a bit of an eye opener in that direction. I wanted to do it in a day (as usual impatient) but now I will back off and schedule the Manchester submission to be complete by the end of the weekend. Tomorrow taken up with Auntie, shopping for flower seeds and Midnight Oil movie. Glad to find an excuse to take myself off the hook.

Wednesday 3 July 2024
Thursday 4 July 2024

Another idea: An article for Theological Studies summarizing book. This and Manxhester U over the weekend, article to be a conflation of the Manchester U annotated table of contents.

Friday 5 July 2024

Working on the Manchester submission. +$1476 on the market. Going back over 2017 submission to Theological Studies to see how far I have come in the last 7 years. Began writing 2o17_02_26: Title Scientific Theology.

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Submitted to TS 1 June 2017 via ScholarOne / rejected [as expected].

Saturday 6 July 2024

A idea: to become a best seller in theological conspiracy like Deighton, Greene and LeCarre, ie recognizing that fiction based on a tissue of fact is the way to go. Meanwhile stick to the facts in a quest for scientific theology. Check what happened to my 2017 submission in the year after mum died 2016_05_24. Grandchild Sina Claude Jeffrey George Fofana born 29/5/2015

Reading old stuff and getting the feeling that I knew it all along, ie an interpretation of the standard model pternip / print /books / interpret_s_model. This covers the backbone of cognitive cosmogenesis 17 years ago aged 62. The improvements have been incremental but I am close to the end - just have to make the connection between quantum mechanics and transfinite numbers again which has been holding me up for most of this year. If I get a bite for the book I have to rewrite it to include P vs NP and transfinite numbers. First complete the submission to Manchester and then

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the paper for Theological Studies which will be a precis of the book. Breakfast time. Although I am nearly as old as Biden I am hoping to make an impression in the theological world before I die (in 2045?). P versus NP problem - Wikipedia

Minkowski velocity of light cognitive cosmogenesis 24.6:

Minkowski wrote:

Thus the essence of this postulate may be clothed mathematically in a very pregnant manner in the mystic formula 3 × 105 kilometres = i (√ –1) seconds
Albert Einstein (1923): The Principle of Relativity - A collection of original memoirs on the special and general theory of Relativity. With notes by A. Sommerfeld. Translated by W. Perrett and G. B. Jeffery

We might say that the whole of nineteenth century mathematics was directed to understanding calculus and continuity. Toward the beginning of the twentieth century, the emphasis changed to proof and logic because attempts to make sense of continuity had led to paradox. This history is being repeated in physics, where attempts to study the universe as though it is continuous have led to endless problems that have had to be dealt with with dodgy ideas like renormalization. The Nyquist-Shannon digitization theorem cuts all this away, digitizing everything in the interests of error free communication. Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia

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Einstein (1923), Albert, and Einstein, Lorentz, Minkowski, Weyl and Sommerfeld, The Principle of Relativity - A collection of original memoirs on the special and general theory of Relativity. With notes by A. Sommerfeld. Translated by W. Perrett and G. B. Jeffery, Methuen 1923  
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Nielsen (2016), Michael A., and Isaac L Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press 2016 Review: A rigorous, comprehensive text on quantum information is timely. The study of quantum information and computation represents a particularly direct route to understanding quantum mechanics. Unlike the traditional route to quantum mechanics via Schroedinger's equation and the hydrogen atom, the study of quantum information requires no calculus, merely a knowledge of complex numbers and matrix multiplication. In addition, quantum information processing gives direct access to the traditionally advanced topics of measurement of quantum systems and decoherence.' Seth Lloyd, Department of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Nature 6876: vol 416 page 19, 7 March 2002. 
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Colin Kruger (2024_07_01), Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s court win threatens to expose Facebook’s trillion-dollar secrets, ' Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s recent court win in the US promises to pierce the US laws that have long cloaked Facebook’s trillion-dollar business from the harm caused by fraud on its platform – including scam ads using images of Forrest. A US court ruled last month that it would consider whether the social media group breached its duty to the public by allowing fraudulent advertisements to appear on its platform. The court also found that Forrest, executive chairman and founder of iron ore miner Fortescue, had cause for action under California common law to claim for misappropriation of his name and likeness. Billionaire businessman Andrew Forrest is using his deep pockets to take on Facebook parent Meta over scam ads using his likeness. Billionaire businessman Andrew Forrest is using his deep pockets to take on Facebook parent Meta over scam ads using his likeness.Credit: Bloomberg/Getty Facebook owner Meta will be forced to reveal sensitive information on the inner workings of the advertising platform that provides all its revenue. A farcical interchange on Friday between Meta bosses and a parliamentary committee, however, demonstrates the challenge that lies ahead. First, the good news. District Court Judge Casey Pitts handed down his order last month allowing Forrest’s civil liability case against Meta to go ahead in relation to the argument that Facebook plays an active role in creating and displaying the scam ads. Over about six months to December 2023, 1700 new fraudulent ads including crypto scams were posted on Facebook, aided and abetted by 10 to 15 fake Andrew Forrest Facebook profiles popping up each week supporting them.' back

Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia, Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In the field of digital signal processing, the sampling theorem is a fundamental bridge between continuous-time signals (often called "analog signals") and discrete-time signals (often called "digital signals"). It establishes a sufficient condition for a sample rate that permits a discrete sequence of samples to capture all the information from a continuous-time signal of finite bandwidth.' back

P versus NP problem - Wikipedia, P versus NP problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer science. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified (technically, verified in polynomial time) can also be solved quickly (again, in polynomial time). The underlying issues were first discussed in the 1950s, in letters from John Forbes Nash Jr. to the National Security Agency, and from Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann. The precise statement of the P versus NP problem was introduced in 1971 by Stephen Cook in his seminal paper " The complexity of theorem proving procedures" and is considered by many to be the most important open problem in the field.' back

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