vol 7: Notes
2004
25 January
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[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 25 January 2004 - Saturday 31 January 2004]
Sunday 25 January 2004
Monday 26 January 2004
Tuesday 27 January 2004
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Wednesday 28 January 2004
We are all on the same treadmill as the vulture which must get food each day on order to have the energy the fly high enough to find food on the morrow. Pennycuick. We find the concept in quantum mechanics in the ideas of tunnelling and virtual particles where energy is borrowed from the future in order to get thee. So also in the economy, where the young (people or companies) mortgage their future to get houses and factories in the present. All this comes under capital with different time constants and volumes ranging from the quantum of action on up. In the quantum system energy is conserved, so that the payoff from tunnelling out of a nucleus is exactly equal to the potential difference between in and out. In the economy, borrowings often attract interest, a cost arising from the competition for capital and [from the point of view of the payer a form of dissipation] in effect increases the total capital of the system by increasing the fortunes of the lenders.
DISSIPATION <--> CREATION (Prigogine) Nicolis.
Playing the penny dreadfuls on the stock market is probably akin to brownian motion, many fluctuations leading to infinite drift.
In the full complexity of the universe there are no symmetries except those imposed by the need for consistency, and the combinatory nature of process. The universe is not cyclic but all its subprocesses are and so we can observe them repeatedly and see and use
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their sameness. Similia similiter intelliguntur/aguntur?
Similar things are similarly understood and done. Productivity increases as we exploit similarity (mass production, data compression etc).
Physical theology is founded on the common (similar) elements in the life of every entity, beginning with the triad birth-life-death. Only the universe does not die.
In communication terms, we see birth as the establishment of communication with the world, life as a dialogue with the world and death as the closure of a channel. So it is a sort of string (world link) theory that sees every entity as the transmission of a message.
Thursday 29 January 2004
Mathematics = the search for equalities (symbol =). Equalities are the channels by which we move around the world, both in logic and in fact. Eg matching wavefunctions on each side of a barrier. (Park chapter 4) Park.
In the Hilbert space of quantum mechanics, the foundation of statements of equality is the metric (norm) which gives us an abstract view of which functions (vectors) are equal and which are not. Every statement of equality has an abstract quality, since we take concrete equality to be identity. So we can say that some things are more equal than others, in proportion to the number of points of agreement.
Bonding and orbit. Things that are bound together orbit around one another. The archetypal orbit is an ellipse in space
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but we also accept more complex concepts of orbit like the 'orbits' of electrons in an atom, or the orbit of lovers around one another.
The progress of human society depends on the formation of symmetries that previously did not exist, like the equivalence of males and females. This symmetry formation can be quite painful for both elements of the broken symmetry, since it requires an adjustment of attitude. In many societies, for instance, it may require the repositioning of women from chattels to partners and men from owners to partners. One of the most difficult symmetries to establish is a preferred outcome of divorce where both parents maintain a meaningful relationship with the children without involving the children in the bitterness of the breakup.
Friday 30 January 2004
Saturday 31 January 2004
To reconcile gravitation and quantum mechanics, we might assume that the geometrical structure we experience as gravitation is induced by the geometric features of the transfinite network, and the quantum structure arises from the processing of information in the nodes and edges of the network (fermions and bosons?)
Books
| Nicolis, G , and Ilya Prigogine, Self Organisation in Nonequilibrium Systems: From Dissipative Structures to Order through Fluctuations, Wiley Interscience 1977 General Introduction: 'The aim of the present monograph can ... be expressed as the studiy of self-organisation in non-equilibrium systems, characterised by the appearance of dissipative structures through the amplification of appropriate fluctuations. ... The natural approach to the problem of the emergence of new patterns is bifurcation theory. The purpose of this theory is to study the possible branching of solutions that may arise under certain conditions. We have tried to present a readable introduction to this rapidly expanding field ... Our main emphasis is in physical examples and simple but representative models, and our aim is to give the reader an idea of the variety of space-time structures that may arise through bifurcation. ... ' Amazon back |
| Park, David Allen, Introduction to the Quantum Theory, McGraw-Hill Book Company 1992 Amazon back |
Papers
| Pennycuick, C J, "The soaring flight of vultures", Scientific American, 229, 6, December 1973, page 102-109. 'The six common vultures of East Africa can make a round trip of as much as 200 kilometres by skilfully riding updrafts. How they do so is examined with the aid of a powered glider.' . back |
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