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Notes DB 93 Theological Genocide - 2026

Sunday 15 March 2026 - Saturday 14 March 2026

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Sunday 15 March 2026

On_creation_Mar2026.

Buffalo Drive: My method of progress is basically to write myself into a corner and then find a way out. Now I am back to the questions of quantum mechanics, fermions, bosons etc.

Trying to navigate my way from Dirac equation to 4-space.starting from quantum mechanics going to Minkowski space rather than vice versa. At present we take Minkowski space as given and make quantum mechanics fit. What is the QM foundation of exclusion, fermion SU(2) etc [spinor, Atiyah]. QM → particles (fermion / boson) - what is there to say? [maybe the reason fermions do not superpose is that they are bound to emit photons/bosons to communicate and a boson must come between two fermions - something to do with no cloning.] All the experiments are done in Minkowski space. Dead ends are everywhere. Peter Goddard, Hawking, Pais & Atiyah (1998): Paul Dirac, The Man and His Work

What would quantum mechanics be like if it was not trapped in Minkowski space? It would talk to us as god talks to us, the photon is the voice of the electron and as Behiel shows the photon field is a swarm of particles, not a field. But how do we relate this to gravitation? Quantum mechanics elicits the energy in gravitation and feeds it to its children

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and then gravitation forms the stars and planets and feeds all the particles with more energy. Neutron stars squeeze the electrons back into the positrons, all of this being determined by energy [ie rate of action, which relates of course to time which relates to phase which determines the outcome of processes, like juggling]. So On_creation_Mar2026 has to go into QCD and large scale cosmogenesis. The book is just the start. If QM can make a rabbit it can make a proton and not need a new theory of an indestructable proton, we have to get from linear QM to QCD and gravitation so I really have no chance of publishing tomorrow.

Monday 16 March 2026

Free quantum mechanics is the music of the spheres, rather as free genetics is the music of life. The unitary constraint on quantum mechanics is equivalent to the unitary constraint on communication.

The general idea is that QM is quite capable of taking care of protons etc without the assumptions of field theory which are used to interpret the data showing quarks, gluons, confinement and asymptotic freedom, all features observed in Minkowski space that need quantum explanation in the same way that we explain the anatomy, physiology and behaviour of rabbits from their genome; but until I can actually exhibit some QM explanation of QCD phenomena I am nowhere. The first and simplest part may be a count of entropy in the same way that we make the step from fermions and bosons to Minkowski space.

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In other words we must take up the discussion in terms of entropy, requisite variety and communication.

Concluding summary: the most abstract and powerful way to discuss creation is to see it in the light of increasing entropy and exploit what seems to be the case that the fundamental source of increasing entropy is randomness resulting from lack of control. Quantum mechanics, seen as the music of the spheres, covers the spectrum from noise to determinism and we need to bring this front and centre. The durability of protons, electrons and photons is the foundation of the universal structure arising from the eternity and omnipotence of the initial singularity and our story needs to be built around the divine quantum of action, the initial singularity whose eternity and omnipotence containing Hilbert space takes care of everything.

We suspect there must be some sort of a clue in the smallness, high density (energy) and high frequency of the initial processes and the obvious conclusion from phase symmetry is the importance of timing in fundamental phenomena. A point to note is that actual frequency is not so significant as phase, since from a computational point of view speeding up the execution of an algorithm does not change the actual output of the algorithm, just how long it takes. Using quantum phase and timing it should be possible to build the processes of a proton in a situation a billion times as big and a billion times as slow as what really happens, taking the particles involved as elements of a code executed digitally, that is in steps of one quantum [what we do not see in the Minkowski rendition of quantum mechanics are the complex superpositions which may be considered to take place in a continuum and which are hidden by the work of hermitian operators].

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Everything is scaled to the quantum of action, the actus purus of Aquinas and Aristotle neither potential nor kinetic but the interface between them, a full circle of the complex plane with two real points and a continuum of continuous dynamic [complex] points. Now we can write software for a hadron in terms of 2 quarks, three colours and eight gluons, each interaction being one [hermitian] quantum of action which executes a step change in each of the two participants.

Sharon Stone: abuse: “It took years for her to understands its repercussions on her life.” Nathalie Labarthe (2024): Sharon Stone: Survival Instinct

My expulsion from the OP gave me a role which I have expressed at last in my book after writing a number of websites about it: 1: naturaltheology; 2: physical theology; 3: a new theology; 4: scientific theology; 5: jeffrey nicholls; 6. cognitivecosmology; 7: cognitivecosmogenesis (the last site before the book) and 8: lust-4-life, the first site after the book. There is, I suppose a lot more work in the book than I thought and this is no counting 93 2-400 page volumes of notes. I need to get the value out of all this [but I would rather keep writing myself into the new vision than selling its history].

This reminiscence suggests that if I continue on my current trajectory I can arrive at a revision of the physics industry.

I have long sought to avoid theological asides in my discussion of physics but now that I have written the book and declared the universe to be my Bible I must abandon that approach and finally baptize the quantum of action as Aquinas’s actus purus and accept that both the quantum and the singularity are formally identical to Aquinas’s god,

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Tuesday 17 March 2026

Enough fiddling around with electrons and photons. I have introduced by own idea of semi-spontaneous symmetry breaking in the initial singularity, [a bit like the standard model introduction of symmetry breaking wiith the Higgs particle/field] but now I have to bite into beta decay and the new electro-weak particle zoo where I atill sense discrepancies in QFT and QCD which need to be remedied by my Hilbert first policy; so now we are looking for a bit more sequence is creation, following elementary fermions and bosons. [Now] moving from the Dirac equation of electrons and photons to the next story of quarks and gluons with a side issue of neutrinos and the existence of three generations of elementary particles of increasing mass, electron, muon, tau, etc. Elementary particle - Wikipedia

The interesting pieces are the Higgs and W and Z bosons. The two most interesting points are the eternity of the proton and the uniqueness of the photon and the gluons. All these particles are observed in Minkowski space but their nature and interactions are [determined] in Hilbert space and all together they form a compact group with certain patterns of relationship between them which differentiate them by mass, charge and spin, and for the neutrinos, parity. Their interactions fall into 4 subgroups the 4 (0r 3) forces, since gravitation is universal and its only ‘charge’ is energy.

The origin of gravitational charge, we might say, is the differentiation into kinetic and potential energy which, given the uniqueness of the quantum of action, point to different direction in time. All this is part of the concluding summary to on_creation_Mar2026. Abraham Pais (1986): Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World

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Although each vector in a Hilbert space is normalized it is nevertheless the sum of the normalized vectors that are the basis states of the space and since the order of the summation of the vectors in a vector space does not change the direction of the resulting vector (?) although the coefficients on the distinct vectors do, we can imagine that any superposition of two vectors in a given space matches the discrete vectors of which it is composed so the action of the hermitian operator cancels the complex elements of the vectors (perhaps I completely misunderstand linear vector space. A reality check via Treil.) Sergei Treil (2026_01_21): Linear Algebra Done Wrong

Much tension comes from speculating about the future.

The initial singularity / symmetry is necessarily eternal in that we can attribute no beginning to it. It is also empirically at far greater energy and entropy than it was at the ‘beginning of complexification’, although we may accept that the total energy remains zero because overall time does not go in a particular direction because E = ℏ (ω − ω), where ℏ is the fixed quantum of action and frequency can be in the quantum regime positive or negative where we are talking about the invisible rotation around the complex plane ie (zero energy, action) = zero entropy? But we recognize that the potential energy is real (watch a returning spacecraft). How do we carry this message into electroweak and QCD?

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Concluding summary cont: The Hilbert in Minkowski space has given us

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a good harvest of data in the Minkowski space of observation , but what does it mean when we take the relativistic modification of the process involving electrons, photons, quarks and gluons inside the proton? Again we are dealing with fermions and bosons in a region where the velocity of the fermions is close to the speed of light so they have ‘zero apparent thickness’ [to the observing whatever] in the direction of motion but still exclude one another.

Between Feynman and Aquinas I might learn something. III/37 Magnetic Materials, Also III 4§4-7. Exclusion_ no close spin parallel.

Dirac 1926 Copenhagen beginning of QED, Proton lasts forever because its entrails cannot tunnel out, a non quantum phenomenon? A hermitean phenomenon? [An energy phenomenon?] P. A. M. Dirac (1926): On the Theory of Quantum Mechanics

Pais page 131: “Ripeness of the times” are we ready for scientific theology [simply need to prove the universe is divine [, ie fills the space of Hilbert’s formalism program Hilbert's program - Wikipedia]

page 135: “Attempts to understand such times, some of physics’ finest hours, when logic fails, when art and craft combine, are enough to drive many philosopher to distraction.”

Wednesday 18 March 2026

The miracle of physical theology, a quantum mechanical

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description of an episode of prosthetic dentistry: technology in nature. Here we come to the point where the rubber hits the road as mechanics are wont to say. I came to Adelaide to see the older generation of my family off and in the process became the oldest of a large number of cousins, the grandchildren of my grandparents. I came with an intellectual project, to prove the proposition that the world is divine and spent two years at Adelaide University seeking support for this project but did not make the grade and left without the doctorate that would have ushered me into academia. So I fell back on writing a home-made PhD thesis which was published on 5 December 2024, six years after I moved to Adelaide.

During that time I have been dealing with minor residual health problems, the principal one being lack of teeth which is to be remedied by the installation of prosthetic teeth but which has now become a matter of money, technology, surgeons, anaesthetists and prosthetic dentists, a painless process that will set me up for healthy old age, paid for by my parents’ life of productive work.

Now back to writing about the theological dream outlined in my book based on the idea =that the world creates itself and peaceful human life depends on understanding how this is happening and fitting in with the program. The fundamental lesson of survival is that cooperation is the key, a fact implicit in the behaviour of the 50 trillion individual cells that have worked, over many [cellular] generations to create 82 year old me.

We are promoting quantum mechanics as the spiritual foundation of the

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world, a practical explanation of action whose mathematical foundation from a computational point of view is a set of hermitian operators in 2D Hilbert space, the qubit. Nielsen & Chuang (2016); Quantum Computation and Quantum Communcation

Our evolutionary point of view is based on the random creation of Hilbert bases by fixed point theory in a complex, that is algebraically complete, regime (from the point of view of functions and solutions) and the selection of real numbers out of the complex domain by hermitian operators. How do we apply this idea to the eternity of the photon [maybe in some way related to the eternal primordial initial singularity, like a micro-trinity, recursive]. The quarks are a set of fermions, the gluons bosons.

Khinchin: Introduction §1; The most important characteristics of the mathematical apparatus of quantum statistics.

First two facts; 1: Some physical quantities have discrete spectra (denumerable sets of possible values); 2: as well as classical Hamiltonian variables (which are mapped onto Minkowski space] quantum mechanics has “spin” [= phase] variables which are specific to quantum physics.

In quantum mechanics the state of a system defined the physical quantity only as random variablesie it determines the laws of distribution obeyed by physical quantities and not their values [it also defines their values as eigenvalues of eigenvectors].

Khinchin two big mistakes; 1: avoiding spin; 2: denying the precision on hermitian operators in favour of the Born Rule.

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Khinhin page 2: Three statistical paradigms: Classical, Bose-Einstein; and Fermi- Dirac. BE & FD do not and cannot have analogues in classical statistical mechanics.

‘The transition to the new statistics signifies . . . a reduction in the accessible states of the system over which the averaging must be carried out. The reduction is necessary because a . . . single valued integral of the Schrödinger equation . . . the “index of symmetry” is the rule, not the ecxeption . . . this index describes a specific feature of quantum mechanics . . .

page 6: In these cases only a symmetric or anti-symmetric eigenfunctions are admissible. Thus in the statistical properties of quantum physics it is necessary to develop computational methods for three fundamental statistical schemed: complete, symmetric and antisymmetric. For this purpose we establish first a particular complete orthogonal set of eigenfunctions for each of these schemes [which seems to be a set of Hilbert bases for each scheme]. How does this fit with the function ψ = α|fermion⟩ +β|boson⟩.

What is the energetic implication of the distinction between fermions and bosons? What is the energetic difference between people and communications between people. How does this embody justice / or not?

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Khinchin page 7: The number of fundamental states corresponding to a given set of occupation numbers is different for each of the basic statistical schemes. This difference is the most important consequence of the statistical dissimilarity of the schemes.

page 102: Foundations of the Statistics of Photons.

We begin with the assumption that the universe is divine and our working definition of divinity is drawn from the work of Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes and Aquinas, whose most succinct definition of divinity is ipsum esse, the being whose essence is to exist. Here we will identify the initial singularity as the Aquinas–Einstein symmetry. Avicenna - Wikipedia, Averroes - Wikipedia

Here we describe this as an eternal structureless, complete, convex and continuous space as described by Einstein as he used Gaussian coordinates and Riemannian geometry to get behind Minkowski space as he described in his final paper on the field equations of gravitation. The duality in absolute or tensor differential calculus did away with the need for any specific coordinates, leaving physicists free to introduce coordinate systems to suit their purposes. Hawking & Ellis (1975): The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

Thursday 19 March 2026

At last my marketing department has come up with a theme. My book is th first step in correcting the greatest human

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blunder of all time, whose historical roots may be traced to Ancient Egypt. It is the political control of truth which was gained by military force, imperialism, theocracy and autocracy whose hegemony was most recently broken by Galileo’s conquest of the Roman Catholic Church and the rise of science, which assumes that the truth lies not in some fictitious other worldly divine power but in the everyday world in which we live. A truth known to every form of lfe that has evolved except the powerful fools who dreamt of a glorious effort free life in heaven with a benevolent divinity.

Donald’s Blunder? NO, The Theory of Peace,

The role of DNA, theology and the body politic. Indigenous. The imperialists bent on killing indigenous people, infected the world with a theological cancer, theocracy, and we must fight it.

Friday 20 March 2026

Essay: Theory of Peace.

I am a body of independent cells united by common DNA, different in every body, different in every creature, all rooted in the algorithm: form controls action.

The planetary analogy, the creation of the world from eternal, omnipotent form. Wilderness vs imperialism. The quantum mechanical foundation of freedom, agency and justice broken by imperialism and theocracy.

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Theory of Peace — Symmetry — DNA — variety — evolution.

When we examine the genome of any creature we are able to correlate with an RNA and an amino acid sequence which folds under relaxation to develop a functioning protein whose structure and metabolic role is a function of its structure and the potentials within that structure which manipulate the transformation which the protein is responsible for. We realize that this sequence has arisen by random genetic change, selected in the context of existing physiologies, but we can imagine a similar evolutionary history in the development of the elementary particles in our particle collision experiments.

My divine universe has become rather straightforward and boring probably since it is more of a heuristic structure (Lonergan) than an actual theory, although the results of agency, freedom and justice coming out of quantum mechanics seem rather exciting it has become boringly straightforward and while I feel that it is the answer to everything, ie the latest theory of oeace based ob biological physiology, genetic symmetry and cosmic theology as a fundamental symmetry of oeace, I feel no urge to propagate it, or my book which lays out the foundation of the theory. Bernard Lonergan (1992): Insight: A Study of Human Understanding

I need a holiday, some exciting friends a new job, all of which require a bit of energy and agency. I have collected enough money for the tooth job 26k) while watching the market fall (10k) so my peak of 63k cash has been whittled down to about 30k. Perhaps the only exciting thing to do is make money, but that is out of my hands to the degree that fate will decide how my book sells. <.p>

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I must get the Theory of Peace essay done before my teeth are done, six more days, all day tomorrow taken up with the election.

Symmetry: Genes ad multicellular organisms are an example for theological symmetry and human peace.

The initial singularity is the divinity described by Aristotle, Avicenna, Aquinas and modern physics.

The differentiation of symmetry is a product of evolution, variation and selection. From Trinity to Hilbert space.

The advent of quantum mechanics — chance and perfection through hermitian operators and the preservation of symmetry through bifurcation.

The elementary particles, atoms, molecules life and genetics, the symmetry implicit in the genetic forms which make life and reproduction possible by copying genes and decoding genes into concrete animals.

The theological symmetry that lies at the foundation of peace on Earth, we are all indigenous, all on the same page [planet] listening to the same god and learning to live together in care and compassion. Headings: 1. The symmetry of life; 2. the symmetry of creation; 3.The universe is our divine mentor.

Saturday 21 March 2026

Looking for a wider campaign or scientific theology which does not exist yet in the face of the overwhelming power of the mythical theologies that have been with us for maybe 10 000 years and the close bond between religion, theology and military violence embodied in the personalities of most gods and godlike people who have destroyed indigenous genius by forcing people into slavery and intellectual death by threats of real death. At my small scale this is what the Catholic Church did to me, and more poignantly to my mother who was a total believer completely divorced from scientific reality by Catholic doctrine.

This is the end of notes 93 Theological Genocide, quite a precise title it has turned out to be. Sad but true. And now we must turn more positive and come up with s title for DB 94. The first to spring to mind is The Court Case, a plan of action.

Appendix: A Theory of Peace

Theory of peace

Any living thing bigger than a mouse is a community of 10 billion or more independent cells living together in peaceful harmony. Many die and are replaced by their children. They all cooperate to feed one another, dispose of wastes, heal injuries and protect one another from pathgens and the odd rogue that mutates into cancer.

Such complex creatures are possible because all their cells are reading from the same set of genes. By analogy, we will have the foundation of world peace when we all share the same theology, reading from the same divine universe. Doctors no longer have borders since biological science established that we all have the same physiology. Religious borders will fade as theology becomes scientific. Every creature ultimately dies but species survive for thousands or millions of generations by reproducing. We are surrounded by trillions of examples of this miracle of life, some as big as whales, most too small to see. We can learn from this to harmony to make peace on Earth. We are fewer than the cells in a mouse so the the possibility of peace is real.

Divine symmetry

How does it work? Einstein showed that the key to the world is symmetry and symmetry breaking. Modern science begins with the initial singularity, a perfectly symmetrical eternal omnipotent entity that grows within itself and expands to become the world.

This idea goes back at least 2500 years to Aristotle. He did not know about momentum and believed things that kept moving, like the stars and planets, need to be pushed all the time.

He invented a first unmoved mover to do this and described it in his books on Physics and Metaphysics. During the Islamic Golden Age Muslim theologians like Ibn-Rušd (Averroes) read Aristotle and developed his idea as a model for Yahweh, the God of Moses, I am who I am, whose essence is to exist.

This idea was taken up Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas. His definition of god as pure action (actus purus) became the standard model of God in the Catholic Church and remains so. Aquinas and Aristotle both agree that god must be eternal and uncreated, since nothing comes from nothing. They also agee that god is omniotent, able to do anything that does not involve contradiction.

This model is consistent with the modern theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein. Einstein’s general theory describes the whole Universe as a symmetry, smooth, self contained and perfect.

A theological disaster

Our behaviour has been shaped by 4 billion years of biological evolution. Life is difficult and dangerous. A trait that survivors have developed is the desire to secure their existence by controlling essential resources.

This trait can lead to two political outcomes: the positive one is cooperation, sharing based on symmetry, the key to multi-cellular life; the negative one is appropriation, private property.

Historically, the root of large scale imperialism is theocracy, divine rule. All power is assumed by a priesthood promoting an imaginary God. The priests use an army to propagate their ideas and maintain their control. History suggests that among the first to unite the arny and the priestthood were the kings of Egypt, the Pharaohs, seeking a divine mandate for their conquests.

The Pharaohs passed the baton through the Egyptian patriarch Moses, now claimed by Israel. Israel’s historical tribulations involved frequent imperial occupations. The messiah expected to relieve them from the Romans turned out to be the Prince of Peace predicted by Isaiah, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus claimed to be like all of us, a child of god. He was executed for blasphemy by the occupying Romans at the request of the local priests.

Neverthess his compassionate approach became so popular that three enturies after his death the Roman emperor Constantine (the “Great”) established Christianty as his imperial religion, creating the Roman catholic (= universal) Church. This Holy Roman Empire ruled Europe until quite recently. The imperial form of Christianity followed European colonialism around the world, destroying “pagan” indigenous populations as it went.

The disaster implicit in this history is that the Catholic Church, following the Mosaic tradition, claims to speak for god. This is wrong. In a divine unverse the universe speaks for itself.

To promote its business, the Church created a fictitious problem which it calls Original Sin and claimed that it is the only solution. Following Augustine of Hippo, it tells us we are sinful people in a damaged world. Only the grace of their God, dispensed through the Church, can save us.

Since Constantine’s time the Christian imperial search for theological hegemony has been the source ceaseless war. The current foundation of this diastrous denial of reality remains the Arab conquest of the Byzantine Empire more than a thousand years ago. Recently the Christian US has opted for a another useless and hopeless war to in the Middle East to prove once more that senseless violence is vastly inferior to diplomatic cooperation.

Back to the beginning

Of the seven billion people on Earth about one in fifty is a scientist, a committed observer trying to discover exactly how the world really works. Every entity in the world occupies the territory that scientists explore: we are all in a gigantic system which plays all the roles attributed to the imaginary gods. Fourteen billion years ago the universe was much smaller and simpler, but its miraculous nature allows us look back almost to the beginning.

Earth is bathed in cosmic radiation, particles that have travelled almost unchanged from the beginning to the present. They tell us our most ancient history. Aristotle, Averroes, Aquinas and Einstein explained this beginning. Let us call it the Aquinas–Einstein symmetry.

Evolution and quantum mechanics

Structure arises by breaking symmetry, and the cosmic symmetry breakers are quantum mechancs and evolution.

Unfortunately Einstein and Aquinas were wrong to believe that god does not play dice. They trusted the old deterministic God, Moses’ ancient mentor. For Aquinas omniscient divine providence takes care of every detail of the world.

Charles Darwin pointed out the fatal weakness of the old gods. He understood that determinism cannot create. Evolution requires both random variation and rational selection.

Quantum mechanics drives evolution. I see the first quantum mechanic as Augustine of Hippo. The old God Yahweh was relolutely one. I am the Lord your God; you shall have no other God before me. At Sinai Yahweh instructed Moses to kill all the idolatrous worshippers of the golden calf.

Augustine wanted to explain how this singular god became the Christian Trinity. He did it by introspection. He recognized that he had a mental picture of himself. God could also reflect on themself, but their images would be real gods, the Son and the Spirit.

Quantum mechanics uses the same idea. It begins with the mathematical structure called abstract Hilbert space devised by John von Neumann. Quantum mechanics works by mapping a Hilbert space in the initial singularity onto itself.

It has the same two features as evolution, variation and selection. Like a speaker or a musician, it emits definite symbols in random strings. This randomness is what upset Einstein. He died trying to make a deterministic theory of the world, but the task was hopeless.

Quantum mechanics is not just randomness. The mathematics can get a bit complex but with modern measument and computation quantum mechanics can determine natural quatities with extreme precision, 10 decimal places or better. Every modern wonder, from LEDs to quantum dots, computers and smartphones derives from quantum theory.

From mathematics to logic and knowledge

Isaac Newton made Aristotle’s unmoved mover obsolete with this first law: a body in motion remains in motion in a straight line unkess it is acted upon by a force. He also made trouble for mathematicians by inventing differential calculus, which looks as bit as though it it trying to divine 0 by 0.

Much of nineteenth century mathematics was devoted to solving this problem. As they dug deeper, they began to find paradoxes. George Cantor proved that for every number there is bigger one. So there cannot be a biggest number that might, for instance, represent God: Cantor’s paradox.

Calculus was more or less taken care of but new paradoxes appeared. It was agreed that the trouble arose from the ambiguities in natural language. Whitehead and Russell wrote Principia Mathmatica to solve this problem. This meticulous three volume work on logic was first published in 1910. It became notable for taking 300 pages to show that 1 + 1 = 2.

In the 1920s David Hilbert proposed that mathematics could be rebuilt on an axiomatic foundation using the logic of the Principia to keep it pure. The only constraint on this program was to be consistency. x

From a theological perspective, Hilbert’s plan was to make mathematics omnipotent. Like the God of Aquinas, mathematics was to be capable of anything that does not involve contradiction. Hilbert hoped that logical mathematics would be complete and computable. A program would be found to solve every mathematical problem.

This was not to be. In 1931 Kurt Gödel revealed his incompleteness theorems and Alan Turing followed in 1936 with an imaginary machine that could compute anything computable. He then identified problems that were beyond his machine. These mathematical discoveries, linked to Darwin’s evolution, show us that even an omnipotent deity is limited. The traditional gods are ideal rather than real beings. Kurt Gödel - Wikipedia, Turing machine - Wikipedia

Then in the 1980s people like Richard Feyman began to think that quantum mechanics could compute anything that a Turing machine could compute, and perhaps even more. Quantum mechanics metamorphosed from a pure physical theory to a theory of communication and computation.

It was a short step from there to realize that Shannon’s mathematical theory of communication, which gave us the error free internet, describes quantum mechanics as a communication source. Shannon’s theory showed that an error proof message is indistinguishable from a string of random events. We can now imagine the physical universe as the voice of God, a new infinitely greater Bible. Claude Shannon (1949): Communication in the Presence of Noise

Conclusion

Now the Christian God is obsolete. If anything is divine it is the world itself. It made us and it tells us everything we need to know. This is also true for all the other old religions. I am fortunate that burning at the stake and raising armies against heretics died out in the Roman Catholic Church long before my time but theocractic Christians are at war with theocratic Muslims.

Further it is now clear that much theology is wrong. To be credible all the Churches need to revise their stories to respect scientifically established fact. Teaching the old material goes beyond the child sexual abuse for which Catholicism is so well known to the intellectual abuse I suffered as a child in the 1940s. I was taught a pastiche of theological dreams that blighted my youth for 40 years.

I have built the new theology sampled here on the work of Charles Darwin, modern mathematics and science.

A detailed exposition of this work is available in my book: Cognitive cosmogenesis: a systematic integration of physics and theology. [Link above]

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Further reading

Books

Goddard (1998), Peter , and Stephen Hawking, Abraham Pais, Maurice Jacob, David Olive, and Michael Atiyah, Paul Dirac, The Man and His Work, Cambridge University Press 1998 Jacket: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the founders of quantum theory and the aithor of many of its most important subsequent developments. He is numbered alongside Newton, Maxwell, Einstein and Rutherford as one of the greatest physicists of all time. This volume contains four lectures celebrating Dirac's life and work and the text of an address given by Stephen Hawking, which were given on 13 November 1995 on the occasion of the dedication of a plaque to him in Westminster Abbey. In the first lecture, Abraham Pais describes from personal knowledge Dirac's character and his approach to his work. In the second lecture, Maurice Jacob explains not only how and why Dirac was led to introduce the concept of antimatter, but also its central role in modern particle physics and cosmology. In the third lecture, David Olive gives an account of Dirac's work on magnetic monopoles and shows how it has had a profound influence in the development of fundamental physics down to the present day. In the fourth lecture, Sir Michael Atiyah explains the widespread significance of the Dirac equation in mathematics, its roots in algebra and its implications for geometry and topology.' 
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Hawking (1975), Steven W, and G F R Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time, Cambridge UP 1975 Preface: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity . . . leads to two remarkable predictions about the universe: first that the final fate of massive stars is to collapse behind an event horizon to form a 'black hole' which will contain a singularity; and secondly that there is a singularity in our past which constitutes, in some sense, a beginning to our universe. Our discussion is principally aimed at developing these two results.' 
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Nielsen (2016), Michael A., and Isaac L Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Communcation, 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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Pais (1986), Abraham, Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press 1986 Preface: 'I will attempt to describe what has been discovered and understood about the constituents of matter, the laws to which they are subject and the forces that act on them [in the period 1895-1983]. . . . I will attempt to convey that these have been times of progress and stagnation, of order and chaos, of belief and incredulity, of the conventional and the bizarre; also of revolutionaries and conservatives, of science by individuals and by consortia, of little gadgets and big machines, and of modest funds and big moneys.' AP 
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Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Reuters (2026_03_17), US counterterrorism chief quits, says Israel ‘trapped’ Trump into joining Iran war, ' A senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest against the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joseph Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Centre, said in his resignation letter to US President Donald Trump.
Kent – a former member of the Green Beret special forces who served 11 combat tours – said: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
He is the first senior US official to resign from the Trump administration to protest against the war.
“Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation,” Kent said in his letter to Trump.
“Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran,” he said.
“This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory,” he said.
“This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.”
He added: “I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.” back

Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus & Joe Frank Bozeman III (2026_03_13), How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate, '' [. . .] At the southeastern U.S. treatment plant we studied, trucks deliver food waste to a receiving station, where it’s processed to remove plastics, metals and other nonorganic materials before being blended into a slurry with the sewage solids. This mixture is then added to anaerobic digesters – sealed tanks where microorganisms break down organic material.At the southeastern U.S. treatment plant we studied, trucks deliver food waste to a receiving station, where it’s processed to remove plastics, metals and other nonorganic materials before being blended into a slurry with the sewage solids. This mixture is then added to anaerobic digesters – sealed tanks where microorganisms break down organic material.
The methane that is produced is captured to generate electricity and heat. The remaining solid material is rich in nutrients and can be used to produce useful material, such as fertilizer.At the southeastern U.S. treatment plant we studied, trucks deliver food waste to a receiving station, where it’s processed to remove plastics, metals and other nonorganic materials before being blended into a slurry with the sewage solids. This mixture is then added to anaerobic digesters – sealed tanks where microorganisms break down organic material.
We also found that adding food waste did not overload the plant or cause problems in its operation. The facility processed all of the county’s landfilled food waste – 107,320 tons annually, representing 38% of the county’s total food waste generation. Because of food waste’s lower density compared to wastewater, this added only 0.43% to the plant’s daily capacity. The plant consistently met effluent water regulatory standards. And at certain points, treatment efficiency improved as a result of the additional organic material, which supported the system’s biological processes. [. . .]
The overall finding of our research is that the limitation isn’t technological or financial. The core systems already exist to transform food waste into a recoverable resource: Cities already handle organic material every day. And they operate complex biological treatment systems. Our evidence suggests these facilities could, in fact, handle food waste in ways that are environmentally beneficial and economically realistic.' back

Aoife Duffy (2023_12_09), Kenya: the shameful truth about British colonial abuse and how it was covered up, ' t is fairly well known that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were affected by terrible acts of violence under the British colonial administration. The British government and King Charles have acknowledged it, and some victims of violence have taken the British government to court for these crimes.
Less-known is how much the British imperialist government tried to cover up these violations.
My research reveals how harsh British detention camps in Kenya were, and the extremes to which the colonialists went to conceal information about this.
Much of this violence happened during the state of emergency, which lasted between 20 October 1952 and 12 January 1960.
As militant nationalism, including the Mau Mau rebellion, grew against the colonial state, a state of emergency was declared in 1952. It introduced a raft of extraordinary regulations, akin to wartime powers.
The regulations paved the way for mass arrests, detention without trial, excess capital punishment, summary executions, evictions, fines and the forced resettlement of entire villages.
From 1953 to 1960, between 70,000 and 150,000 Mau Mau suspects were detained without trial in an archipelago of camps. Conditions in the camps were dire and British colonials and loyalist warders meted out violence with impunity.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission estimates that more than 100,000 Kenyans were killed, tortured and maimed during this time. Using declassified colonial files and government papers, my research reveals the pressure that was exerted by the Colonial Office in London to conceal evidence of violence against detainees. It shows how a highly sophisticated propaganda machine controlled the public narrative of violent incidents. {. . .[
Those who continue to benefit from Britain’s historical violence are insensitive or unresponsive to the calls for acknowledgement, apology and reparations.
Public statements by King Charles and former British foreign secretary William Hague recognise that Kenyans were subjected to torture and ill-treatment at the hands of the colonial administration, but they fall short of a full apology.
There will be difficulty in examining and addressing historical harms. But my research reveals a need to reconcile the colonial narratives with historical facts. This holds the potential to foster genuine compassion and justice.' back

Averroes - Wikipedia, Averroes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Averroes was a strong proponent of Aristotelianism; he attempted to restore what he considered the original teachings of Aristotle and opposed the Neoplatonist tendencies of earlier Muslim thinkers, such as al-Farabi and Avicenna. He also defended the pursuit of philosophy against criticism by Ash'ari theologians such as Al-Ghazali. Averroes argued that philosophy was permissible in Islam and even compulsory among certain elites. He also argued scriptural text should be interpreted allegorically if it appeared to contradict conclusions reached by reason and philosophy. In Islamic jurisprudence, he wrote the Bidāyat al-Mujtahid on the differences between Islamic schools of law and the principles that caused their differences. In medicine, he proposed a new theory of stroke, described the signs and symptoms of Parkinson's disease for the first time, and might have been the first to identify the retina as the part of the eye responsible for sensing light. His medical book Al-Kulliyat fi al-Tibb, translated into Latin and known as the Colliget, became a textbook in Europe for centuries. back

Avicenna - Wikipedia, Avicenna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Ibn Sina[a] (c. 980 – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Often described as the father of early modern medicine, Avicenna's most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopediat that became a standard medical text at many medieval European universities and remained in use as late as 1650.
Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, and works of poetry. His philosophy was of the Peripatetic school derived from Aristotelianism, of which he is considered among the greatest proponents within the Muslim world.
Avicenna wrote most of his philosophical and scientific works in Arabic but also wrote several key works in Persian; his poetry was written in both languages. Of the 450 works he is believed to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.' back

Claude Shannon (1949), Communication in the Presence of Noise, 'A method is developed for representing any communication system geometrically. Messages and the corresponding signals are points in two “function spaces,” and the modulation process is a mapping of one space into the other. Using this representation, a number of results in communication theory are deduced concerning expansion and compression of bandwidth and the threshold effect. Formulas are found for the maximum rate of transmission of binary digits over a system when the signal is perturbed by various types of noise. Some of the properties of “ideal” systems which transmit at this maximum rate are discussed. The equivalent number of binary digits per second for certain information sources is calculated.' [C. E. Shannon , “Communication in the presence of noise,” Proc. IRE, vol. 37, pp. 10–21, Jan. 1949.] back

Contemporary Physics Education Project, The Particle Adventure, 'An award winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors from the Particle Data Group of Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory.' back

Elementary particle - Wikipedia, Elementary particle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. Particles currently thought to be elementary include the fundamental fermions (quarks, leptons, antiquarks, and antileptons), which generally are "matter particles" and "antimatter particles", as well as the fundamental bosons (gauge bosons and the Higgs boson), which generally are "force particles" that mediate interactions among fermions. A particle containing two or more elementary particles is a composite particle.' back

Hilbert's program - Wikipedia, Hilbert's program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' In mathematics, Hilbert's program, formulated by German mathematician David Hilbert, was a proposed solution to the foundational crisis of mathematics, when early attempts to clarify the foundations of mathematics were found to suffer from paradoxes and inconsistencies. As a solution, Hilbert proposed to ground all existing theories to a finite, complete set of axioms, and provide a proof that these axioms were consistent. Hilbert proposed that the consistency of more complicated systems, such as real analysis, could be proven in terms of simpler systems. Ultimately, the consistency of all of mathematics could be reduced to basic arithmetic.' back

Jennifer Rankin (2026_03_18), Belgian court sends ex-diplomat, 93, to trial over 1961 murder of Congo leader, ' A former Belgian diplomat, 93, should stand trial over alleged complicity in the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was then the newly independent Congolese state, a Brussels court has ruled.
Étienne Davignon, the only person still alive among 10 Belgians the Lumumba family accuses of involvement in the killing, is charged with participation in war crimes.
The decision, which follows a surprise referral by the Brussels prosecutor last June, can be appealed against. Davignon, a former vice-president of the European Commission, has denied the charges.
In a statement the Lumumba family welcomed what they called a significant step: “For our family, this is not the end of a long fight, it is the beginning of a reckoning that history has long demanded.”
˜ Yema Lumumba, a granddaughter of the assassinated leader, told reporters: “The fact that all this time has passed does not mean it is done and we will never get to know the truth. It is also very important for the legal Belgian system to start confronting its own responsibilities regarding what happened during colonial times.”
The decision was also hailed by lawyers for the Lumumba family as setting a historic precedent in criminal justice for crimes allegedly committed under European colonial rule.
If the trial goes ahead, Davignon will be the first Belgian official to face justice over the assassination of Lumumba 65 years ago. In its decision, the court went beyond the prosecutor’s decision, extending the scope of the trial to cover Lumumba’s associates, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, who were murdered alongside him.' back

KitiGrice (2026_03_17), All 5 fundamental units of life’s genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample, A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from the asteroid Ryugu.
Asteroid particles offer a glimpse into the chemical ingredients that may have helped kindle life on Earth. The Ryugu samples were returned from space in 2020 by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission.
In 2023, an international team reported they had found one of the nucleobases in these samples – uracil. Now, in a study published in Nature Astronomy today, a team of Japanese scientists has confirmed all five nucleobases are present in this pristine asteroid material.
This means these ingredients for life may have been widespread throughout the Solar System in its early years.
Nucleobases are nitrogen-containing organic molecules that form the “letters” of genetic information in DNA and RNA. The five main nucleobases are adenine and guanine (known as purines), as well as cytosine, thymine and uracil (known as pyrimidines).
These molecules combine with sugars and phosphates to yield nucleotides – the building blocks of genetic material. Without nucleobases, the genetic code that allows organisms to grow, reproduce and evolve would not exist.' back

Kurt Gödel - Wikipedia, Kurt Gödel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Gödel is best known for his two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931 when he was 25 years old, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University of Vienna. The more famous incompleteness theorem states that for any self-consistent recursive axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers (for example Peano arithmetic), there are true propositions about the naturals that cannot be proved from the axioms. To prove this theorem, Gödel developed a technique now known as Gödel numbering, which codes formal expressions as natural numbers.' back

Nathalie Labarthe (2024), Sharon Stone: Survival Instinct, ' Made famous by her explosive performance in "Basic Instinct", Sharon Stone is forever etched in the collective unconscious as a sex symbol. But behind this cumbersome image lies an actress with a strong character. As a teenager determined to break away from a modest and violent background, she left rural Pennsylvania at an early age for New York, where she combined odd jobs with art studies. To launch her career, she agreed to play the stereotype of the silly blonde, before landing several major roles that helped her take off, including the legendary "Casino", alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Beyond acting, she invented a public persona full of humor and repartee.; back

P. A. M. Dirac (1926), On the Theory of Quantum Mechanics, ' The new mechanics of the atom introduced by Heisenberg may be based on the assumption that the variables that describe a dynamical system do not obey the commutative law of multiplication, but satisfy instead certain quantum conditions. One can build up a theory without knowing anything about the dynamical variables except the algebraic laws that they are subject to, and can show that they may be represented by matrices whenever a set of uniformising variables for the dynamical system exists. It may be shown, however (see 3), that there is no set of uniformising variables for a system containing more than one electron, so that the theory cannot progress very far on these lines. A new development of the theory has recently been given by Schrödinger. Starting from the idea that an atomic system cannot be represented by a trajectory, i. e., by a point moving through the co-ordinate space, but must be represented by a wave in this space, Schrödinger obtains from a variation prin­ciple a differential equation which the wave function ψ must satisty. This differential equation turns out to be very closely connected with the Hamiltonian equation which specifies the system, namely, if H (qr, Pr - W) = 0 is the Hamiltonian equation of the system, where the qr, Pr are canonical variables, then the wave equation for ψ is {H(q r, ih ∂/∂q) - W} ψ = 0.' back

Richard Feynman, 37: Magnetic Materials, ' The general theory of ferromagnetism that we will use supposes that the spin of the electron is responsible for the magnetization. The electron has spin one-half and carries one Bohr magneton of magnetic moment μ= μB= qeℏ/2m. The electron spin can be pointed either “up” or “down.” Because the electron has a negative charge, when its spin is “up” it has a negative moment, and when its spin is “down” it has a positive moment. With our usual conventions, the moment μ of the electron is opposite its spin. We have found that the energy of orientation of a magnetic dipole in a given applied field B is −μ⋅B, but the energy of the spinning electrons depends on the neighboring spin alignments as well. In iron, if the moment of a nearby atom is “up,” there is a very strong tendency that the moment of the one next to it will also be “up.” That is what makes iron, cobalt, and nickel so strongly magnetic—the moments all want to be parallel. The first question we have to discuss is why. back

Roy Green (2026_03_18), Australia was once a world leader in innovation. A new report shows the system is now ‘broken’, 'Australia’s research and innovation system is “broken” and needs “bold reform”, according to a major new independent report released on Tuesday. Titled “Ambitious Australia”, it’s the culmination of a strategic examination of research and development in Australia, commissioned by the federal government in December 2024. It was led by Tesla chairwoman Robyn Denholm. [. . . ]
By the end of the 1990s, the fastest-growing component of Australia’s export mix was high-value, complex, finished products. Correspondingly, Australia’s rate of productivity growth was running well above the OECD average.
We are now in a very different world. As this new report shows, Australia has fallen behind its peers on many fronts. [. . .]
Australia’s economy has grown heavily dependent on natural resources.
The economic concept of “comparative advantage” suggests a country should specialise in producing the things it can with a lower opportunity cost than its trading partners.
The problem is that in pursuit of comparative advantage, successive federal governments have allowed Australia’s resources exports – such as iron ore and coal – to crowd out high-value manufacturing.' back

Sergei Treil (2026_01_21), x, 'Besides being a first course in linear algebra it is also supposed to be a first course introducing a student to rigorous proof, formal definitions—in short, to the style of modern theoretical (abstract) mathematics. The target audience explains the very specific blend of elementary ideas and concrete examples, which are usually presented in introductory linear algebra texts with more abstract definitions and constructions typical for advanced books.
Another specific of the book is that it is not written by or for an alge- braist. So, I tried to emphasize the topics that are important for analysis, geometry, probability, etc., and did not include some traditional topics. For example, I am only considering vector spaces over the fields of real or complex numbers. Linear spaces over other fields are not considered at all, since I feel time required to introduce and explain abstract fields would be better spent on some more classical topics, which will be required in other dis- ciplines. And later, when the students study general fields in an abstract algebra course they will understand that many of the constructions studied in this book will also work for general fields.
Also, I treat only finite-dimensional spaces in this book and a basis always means a finite basis. The reason is that it is impossible to say something non-trivial about infinite-dimensional spaces without introducing convergence, norms, completeness etc., i.e. the basics of functional analysis. And this is definitely a subject for a separate course (text). So, I do not consider infinite Hamel bases here: they are not needed in most applications to analysis and geometry, and I feel they belong in an abstract algebra course.' back

Suzanne Maloney (2025_03_18), The Alternative to Obama’s Nuclear Deal Was War. Why Did Trump Tear It Up?, ' In announcing attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump declared that Tehran had “rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore.” A few days later he said, “If we didn’t hit within two weeks they would’ve had a nuclear weapon.”[. . .]
During the deal’s short life, Tehran lived up to its end of the bargain, undertaking technical steps to cap its uranium enrichment and stockpiles, restricting the use of its nuclear facilities to civilian purposes, and allowing inspections and monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
More than once during Mr. Trump’s first term, his administration certified that Iran was complying with the agreement. Yet in his 2017 speech to the U.N. General Assembly, he called the deal an “embarrassment.” For a brief period, he sought to renegotiate its terms.[. . .]
There’s little evidence, however, that the better deal that many of the nuclear agreement’s opponents demanded was ever within reach. Neither Mr. Trump nor President Joe Biden — who tried to revive a deal when he took office — ever got close, though Iran appeared ready to offer more concessions in last-ditch talks just before the current war erupted. [. . .] In going to war, Mr. Trump undertook a decision of immense strategic consequence without a clear strategy for managing the fallout. Considering that he returned to office promising to avoid wars, he gave up on negotiation prematurely. And he did so without making the case to Americans why this war was necessary.
In 2015, Mr. Obama said that if Congress killed his deal with Iran, America would lose not only constraints on Iran’s nuclear program but also “credibility as the anchor of the international system.” The long road from Mr. Trump’s abandonment of the deal to where we are today may prove that warning prophetic. back

Turing machine - Wikipedia, Turing machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' A Turing machine is a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, and is particularly useful in explaining the functions of a CPU inside a computer. The "machine" was invented in 1936 by Alan Turingwho called it an "a-machine" (automatic machine). The Turing machine is not intended as practical computing technology, but rather as a hypothetical device representing a computing machine. Turing machines help computer scientists understand the limits of mechanical computation.' back

Valerie Hopkins & Paul Sonne (2026_03_16), How the Makers of ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Addressed ‘an Ethical Minefield’, ' The makers of the film “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” which won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday, navigated an ethical minefield to expose the military indoctrination that President Vladimir V. Putin has imposed on Russian schools after invading Ukraine.
They wanted to reveal, through the eyes of Pavel Talankin, the coordinator of extracurricular activities at School No. 1 in Karabash, a small Russian industrial town, how students were being flooded with a wave of state-mandated propaganda.
Among the questions they grappled with: Could footage that Mr. Talankin was being asked to record by the school as proof of compliance with the education authorities be used? What about footage of children in their classroom without prior consent from parents? Would the entire project get Mr. Talankin jailed or killed, or bring harm to one of the students?
The American documentary filmmaker David Borenstein, who worked with Mr. Talankin from outside Russia to put together the film, weighed all of this when he was deciding whether to take on the project. [. . .]
Up front, the team mandated that Mr. Talankin ultimately leave Russia for safety reasons, Mr. Borenstein said. The network also said that no one in the film who was remaining in Karabash could be shown saying anything against the Russian state or the war that would endanger them, he added. The team also had to consider the safety of Mr. Talankin’s mother, a librarian at the same school, who has remained in the town. [. . .]
The movie is the third Russia-related film to win the Academy Award for best feature documentary in four years. In 2023, the award went to “Navalny,” a film about the Russian opposition campaigner Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in 2024 while in prison. In 2024, the prize was given to “20 Days in Mariupol,” a film about Russia’s siege of the Ukrainian city.
Mr. Talankin rejected accusations by Kremlin supporters that his work was treasonous or anti-Russian, noting that “homeland does not equal Putin.”
“For me, I’m not a traitor to the motherland,” he said. “For me, the biggest traitors to the motherland are those who pretend everything is fine, who pretend everything is all right".' back

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