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Notes DB 93 Theological Genocide - 2025

Sunday 31 August 2025 - Saturday 6 September 2025

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Sunday 31 August 2025
To LinkedIn: Here is a PDF of a paper I have submitted to Frontiers in Polictical Science designed to use quantum theory to sink the bad ship determinism and all who sail in it.

Quantocracy part II

11.1: Is Quantum Mechanics the primary source of universal structure. Weinberg, Dirac equation, photons, QED. Richard Feynman & Steven Weinberg (1986): Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics The1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures

Monday 1 September 2025
Quantum computation and decoherence.

Quantocracy continued:

Josephine Ma (2025_09_1) Hinton Interview:

Q: How long to artificial general intelligence (AGI):

A: “Some people think that it might be just a few years and other people think it will be at least 20 years, or even longer. But nearly all the experts think we will get AGI

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and once we have AGI, we will have super intelligence very soon afterwards,

A. “ To prevent AGI from taking over, you need to somehow make them care about human beings. So that’s different from making them smarter.

“the only example we have of a more intelligent being being controlled by a less intelligent thing is a mother and baby. The baby controls the mother because the mother has instincts and hormones and social pressure as well, and the mother genuinely wants the baby to do well.”

Q: “That means we should train AI to love human beings, right?”

A. “not necessarily train it but design it. So there may be built into things. Its not just in the training. Mothers have innate instincts and they have hormones. That is not just training on data.” Josephine Ma (2025_09_01): Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race

Where did the ‘maternal instinct’ come from? Evolution and perhaps quantum intelligence [the ones without maternal instinct did not reproduce]. The hermitian transition from complex and kinematic to stationary and dynamic? How do we get this into the political essay?

Tuesday 2 September 2025

Quantocracy taking longer than I thought it would but it is also getting a lot better with many obiter dicta which may make it more interesting to the legal fraternity. Now up to II.9 and trying to stay inside 12 000 words, now at 10 747 but can cut quite a lot. +900 on the market. Now spy stories.

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Schwinger Nobel lecture: Relativistic quantum field theory

page 144: The empirical fact, that all connected space-time locations and orientations of the measurement apparatus supply equivalent descriptions, is interpreted by the mathematical requirement of invariance under the group of proper isochronous inhomogeneous Lorentz transformations, applied to continuous numerical coordinates.

There is another numerical element in the quantum mathematical description that has a measure or arbitrariness and expresses an aspect of relativity. I am referring to the quantum mechanical use of complex numbers and of the mathematical equivalence of the two square roots of -1, ± i. What general property of an measurement apparatus is subject to our control, in principle, but offers only the choice of two alternatives? The answer is clear – a macroscopic material system can be constructued or matter or antimatter. But let us not conclude too hastily that a matter apparatus and an antimatter apparatus are completely equivalent. etc etc. Julian Schwinger (1965): Schwinger Nobel lecture: Relativistic quantum field theory

The heart of symmetry is that nothing happens so the complete absence of space and time in Hilbert space causes (in effect) the Lorentz transformation (?). — like Schwinger’s statement of the relativity of matter and antimatter. What I am looking for in quantum mechanics, via the idea of zero-sum bifurcation, are the properties of freedom and autonomy which are basic to the fundamental state and are carried over to both sides: the continuity of potential and kinetic is something present in gravitation which is shared by both these forms of energy and it is action, the L dt, the time integral of the Lagrangian.

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The saddest thing in my life is that I have not met anyone to can talk about things that interest me and the solution to this problem is to go public so I interact with a larger cross section of people [this, hopefully, will be a consequence of the publication of my book].

The key to symmetry is nothing, [ie a change with no observable difference, like mirror image of my right hand], zero entropy. Dynamics is communication. Initial singularity ≡ initial symmetry.

Wednesday 3 September 2025

What we are looking for is the first qualities that emerge in the universe and which are shared by all subsequent bifurcations and these are the fundamental properties of particles, distinction and autonomy, represented by fermions and bosons whose actions recreate the symmetry of the initial singularity [because a fermion and the relevant boson are created simultaneously, parts of the same Lagrangian, a zero sum structural bifurcation].

The essence of symmetry is a transformation which makes no observable difference. [We] cannot tell by looking at a perfectly smooth and circular disc whether it is spinning [or not] . It is symmetrical. To see how fast it is spinning, if at all, we must put a mark on it. This symmetry is the group known as U(1), and it is fundamental to quantum electrodynamics. The fundamental symmetry in the universe is the quantum of action, the smallest possible event [identical to the initial singularity]. We may say that the initial symmetry of the universe is the initial singularity.

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Quantocracy: A bit of rearrangement. Ditch the QCD and electroweak and add new question II.9: Does quantum field theory describe a dictatorship? Then II.10: Zero sum bifurcation and gravitation; II.11: Symmetry with respect to complexity; II.12: Concluding summary. 4 new sections.

The basic idea of a field theory is that a field controls inert particles. The gravity of Earth holds me on the planet. The field of Faraday’s magnet organizes the iron filings [on the sheet of cardboard on the magnet]. This is a convenient and convincing explanation and it also works well when we are discussing the management of people in coercive political regimes like high schools and dictatorships, but is it a true story?

The alternative, advertised as a property of a free country, a free school, a free university or a free economy is that people can decide for themselves what they want to do, who they want to talk to and spend time with, what they want to believe and so on, and also have a say in the establishment of the society in which they live by something [like trustworthy media], democracy and free elections.

We like this because we think we have free will. But what about fundamental particles. Is a field an all controlling power, or it an appearance driven by freedom, [knowledge] and chance in the way we see people streaming to football matches and music concerts, or birds flocking together and travelling thousands of kilometres to their feeding, mating and nesting grounds, more or less of their own free will which we might call instinct and by the perception that going with the flow might be the best thing.

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This is the sort of question I am trying to answer with quantum mechanics, and having decided that it in effect the DNA of every particle in the universe. I am trying like Aristotle to go back to the beginning to see which way things work in this world populated by enormously huge populations of tiny particles, executing perhaps 10100 quanta of action per second, a very significant flow of information that could define a world of enormously complex activity, each particle executing action at a rate determined by its mass-energy.

Thursday 4 September 2025

Phone re quantocracy II.9: Does quantum field theory describe a dictatorship?

Particles are differentiate in Minkowski space so that their quantum interaction Instead particles are persons [senders and receivers of messages] and the first personality is the photon which may have any energy and then we move to the qubit which is in SU(2) space and this is as far as we are going in this article.

The uncertainty ids in Minkowski space due to particulate pixellation and not in Hilbert space [where hermitian operators are real fixed points].

Where do the QFT fields come from and how do they communicate with particles [the mathematical models just assume that this happens].

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Having doubts about quantocracy which slow me down. My doubts arise when I feel that I have gone too far [away from the standard picture]. My new most distant point in the Aquinas–Einstein initial singularity which I identify with the traditional [Thomistic] god, actus purus, the quantum of action and naked gravitation. This is the foundation of quantocracy at I.9. Then we go via von Neumann and Augustine to Hilbert space and the quantum evolution of fundamental particles and the quantum discovery of real hermitian operators which are the forms of new particles made concrete by the bifurcation of [naked] gravitation into kinetic and potential energy

Now turning to the question II,9: does quantum field theory describe a dictatorship, repeat the paragraph above and then follow it with the text on page 36 beginning ‘The basic idea of field theory is that a field controls inert particles.’ This is dictatorship. Our alternative is the quantum discovery and creation of [living, personal, dynamic] particles described above. This is the freedom and autonomy hypothesis, and we can leave it for the reader to decide after reading II.10: zero-sum bifurcation, II.11 symmetry with respect to complexity and II.12 Concluding summary. This is my contribution complete and we will see what readers think. The next project foreshadowed in Notes 2025 July 27 page 311 is an essay on gravitation for Frontiers in Physics.

In II.9 we make the point from Behiel that we need the full lagrangian of a fermion and a photon to describe U(1) symmetry

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since a specific photon must couple to a specific electron to maintain the lagrangian symmetry, say an electron emitting a photon and changing its energy state in an atom, or vice versa, a very precise exchange reflected in the precision of the spectral wavelengths / frequencies.This might be the clincher for the “personality” argument. All good things come to those who take their time, another hermitian operation emerges in my brain.

The upshot of this paper is that reality always wins. Quote J J Hopfield on maternal care.

Friday 5 September 2025

Companies and persons attempt to obtain deterministic relationships through contracts designed to cover all eventualities to be enforced by local legislation and courts. The primary and most ancient of these contract is the contract of marriage established between human individuals, people, for better or worse, etc. I entered two such contracts, my vows to ‘god’ in a religious order and a contract of marriage, both of which failed and were annulled by the relevant authorities, the Papacy and the Family Court of Australia.

Tombs the the Egyptian Priestesses, SBS. ‘Belief in the afterlife built Egypt’ Cannot separate religion from kingship. God’s wife of Amun was the female substitute of the king, women with agency, power and resources.

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Like the Lorentz transformation, the Lagrangian is a condition that we observe in Minkowski space which is a consequence of the fact that there is no energy in the Hilbert space of quantum mechanics so that everywhere we see energy in Minkowski space it is a consequence of the same underlying reality in Hilbert space, [reflecting] a symmetry that makes a change [in Hilbert space] with no observable consequence [in Minkowski space], something that happens with no observable consequences, a U(1) symmetry like a spinning wheel [so a change of phase per se makes no observable difference].

We construct the lagrangian in Minkowski space from three features which we imagine to represent what is happening in the invisible quantum world: the Dirac equation which represents a changed massive particle, in this case the electron, . . .

Given this symmetry, we have a foundation for justice. As with photons and electrons, all human behaviour is in fact quantum behaviour and we expect it to obey the Lagrangian symmetry. The fundamental modus operandi of dictators is to kill dissidents, which means people not complying with their dictated demand for conformity, that is people in a free and democratic society would be seen as exercising their natural rights.

So what precisely is the feature of quantum mechanics that

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establishes the nature of events in Minkowski space? Let us say that it is the free and democratic interaction of elementary particles [which in electrodynamics means honouring the U(1) symmetry]. Now let us see how this symmetry runs with increasing energy scale, ie with the symmetry with respect to complexity.

I wish to explore this because I have had the feeling that quantum induced symmetry has political consequences. I also have a feeling that it has something to do with black holes and the phenomena of confinement and asymptotic freedom that account for the high energy indestructability or eternity of protons and my feeling that despite what Veltman and ‘t Hooft say renormalization does not explain asymptotic freedom and confinement.

The principle here is that everything we observe in Minkowski space is a consequences of the underlying naked gravitation and naked quantum mechanics and the clues I want to follow is that there is no upper limit to the energy of photons and that photons are in a sense the bridge between Hilbert and Minkowski space because they take the same form in both spaces, where we assume that the null geodesic is the natural home of massless particles travelling at the speed of light.

So it is back to quantocracy II.8 Symmetry in QED which will finish with a paragraph about symmetry in QCD and electroweak theory, the Higgs and the massive charged bosons W and Z which appear to be at the end of the line in increasing energy scales in the sense that no new physics seems to arise from increased precision of measurement. Toni Feder (2023_12_01): https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/76/12/19/2923589/Precision-measurements-bring-the-search-for-new

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And what about the anti-matter problem which shows that antimatter is symmetrical for gravitation. William Bertsche (2023): Antimatter: we cracked how gravity affects it – here’s what it means for our understanding of the universe

Every time I wake up with new ideas like this it improves quantocracy and brings it more sharply to the point but delays completion and publication. It is now 40 Biblical days since I began quantocracy and the spirit has ben hinting to me every few days but I hope I can wrap it up soon and get on with the next job which is to be an essay n gravitation, possibly [“mass rule” Greek “barutitocracy” ?]

Saturday 6 September 2025

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Josephine Ma (2025_09_01), Exclusive | Geoffrey Hinton on preventing an AI takeover and the ‘very worrying’ China-US tech race, ' Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist often called the “godfather of AI” because of his revolutionary neural network models inspired by the structure of the human brain. His research brought about a paradigm shift that enabled today’s machine learning technology. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John J. Hopfield of Princeton University. Hinton holds the title of university professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. A company he co-founded with two graduate students was acquired by Google in 2013. He joined Google Brain, the company’s AI research team, the same year and was eventually named a vice-president. Hinton left Google in 2023 because he wanted to speak freely about the risks of AI. In June, he travelled to China and spoke at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. back

Julian Schwinger (1965), Nobel Lecture: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, ' Following the establishment of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, an initial relativistic theory was formulated for the interaction between charged particles and electromagnetic fields. However, partly because the electron’s magnetic moment proved to be somewhat larger than expected, the theory had to be reformulated. Julian Schwinger solved this problem in 1948 through “renormalization” and thereby contributed to a new quantum electrodynamics.' back

Richard Feynman & Steven Weinberg (1986), Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics The1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures, Foreword: John C Taylor: 'Dirac Died in 1984, and St John's College, Cambridge (Dirac's College), very generously endowed an annual lecture to be held at Cambridge University in Dirac's memory. The First two lectures, printed here, are contrasting variations of Dirac's theme of the union of quantum theory and relativity.' back

Tiffany Stanley (2025_08_22), Associated Press: Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can, ' WASHINGTON (AP) — Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ+ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice. back

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