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Notes DB 94 - Theory of Peace - 2026

Sunday 30 August 2026 - Saturday 6 September 2026

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Sunday 30 August 2026

s Trying to make a dream come true, perhaps by ignoring reality, but that is not possible, the world is quite predictable and we can predict the consequences of our actions as history shows, sometimes heading for success, other times heading for disaster.

LADW page 99: difference equation: xn+1 = Axn, A linear operator, V → V (Hilbert space in quantum mechanics, complex). Sergei Treil (2026_01_21): Linear Algebra Done Wrong: LADW

LADW eigenvalues, eigenvectors, spectrum. a Av = λv, v is eigenvector of A corresponding to eigenvalue λ, ie (A - λI)x = 0. Eigenspace is the set of eigenvectors and 0. &lambda Is an eigenvector iff (A - λi)x = 0 has a non trivial solution.

Matrix A is square iff determinant = 0, ie det(A - λI) = 0, ie determinant is a polynomial of degree n of λ, the characteristic polynomial.

page 101: Impossible to solve polynomials of degree > 4 in radicals. So: take an arbitrary basis and compute eigenvalues of the matrix of the operator on this basis.

Square matrices A and B are similar if there is an invertible matrix S such that A = SBS-1 and characteristic polynomials of similar matrices coincide ie the matrices of linear transformations in different bases are similar.

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Therefore we can define the characteristic polynomial of an operator as the characteristic polynomial of its basis in some basis.

The choice does not depend on the choice of basis. So the characteristic polynomial of an operator is well defined.

LADW page 102: Fundamental theorem of algebra says any polynomial of (degree at last 1) has a complex root, so operator on finite dimensional space has at least one eigenvalue so spectrum is not empty.

Complex Cn is natural setting for n × n matrices.

Any polynomial p(z) = Σn ak zk has n complex roots, counting multiplicity.

page 103: if λi are complex eigenvalues of a then
1. trace a = Σi λi; and
2. det a = Πiλi.

Superposition principle, quantum superposition – are linear equations that can have many solutions that are superposed. Superposition principle - Wikipedia, Quantum superposition - Wikipedia

Grace Tame demands law reform after Diocese of Ballarat cleared of vicarious liability Joanna Woodburn & Eden Hynninen (2025_12_20): Grace Tame demands law reform after Diocese of Ballarat cleared of vicarious liability

'Thunderous applause' as vicarious liability laws pass Victoria's upper house Eden Hynninen (2026_02_18): 'Thunderous applause' as vicarious liability laws pass Victoria's upper house

Judy Courtin Phd thesis: Sexual assault and the Catholic Church: are Victims Finding Justice? Judith Edwina Courtin Phd (2015): Sexual assault and the Catholic Church: are Victims Finding Justice?

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Courtin page 3: stats from Royal Commision: 90% of perpetrators were male; average female abuse began at 9 yo, male 10 yo. Individuals took an average 22 years to disclose their abuse. Roman Catholic ‘abuse remains a contemporary issue.’ 1992 ABC Compass. Peter Horsefield (1992_05): Sexuality: is the dam of sexual assault breaking in the Church, ABC Compass (1992_03_15): The Ultimate Betrayal

The Ellis Case Study no. 8 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Report of Case study no 8: Mr John Ellis's experience of the Towards Healing process and civil litigation

Curtin page 4: Victoria Police new of 26 suicides by people from Ballarat Catholic Schools.

page 5: Victorian Committee began 2012, reported 2013. recommend the incorporation and insurance of NGOs like the Roman Catholic Church to provide a legal entity to sue.

page 6: Archbishop of Adelaide Phillip Wilson charged. Catholic clergy 6x more frequent perpetrators than other clergy.

page 7: Australian experience repeated internationally.

page 8: USA Boston 2002. John Jay College of Criminal Justice investigation. Spotlight (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopdia

page 9: Netherlands 1945-2010: ‘tens of thousands of victims’ and castration of ten victims who had tried to expose an offender. Deetman Inquiry

page 11: Belgium.

page 12: Catholic Church inquiries not independent, questionable and influenced.

page 13: Ireland: Chair Judge Lafoy resigned because funding restricted. Goverment indemnified 18 religious orders responsible for abuse.

page 16: Main aim of this research: to identify the needs of victim in the form of criteria for justice. Chapter 3: Royal commissions Independent of State and Church.

page 17: Civil pathway: ‘trespass to the person;, battery, assault and false imprisonment. Battery: ‘someone directly and intentionally interferes with the person of anther without lawful justification.’

page 18: Clergy are impecunious so no possible compensation (??).

Australia is the only country in the Common Law world where the Church is ‘invulnerable to claims’ by victims of clergy abuse: the ‘Ellis defence’: Church is a non-corporate property trust whose trustees are not responsible for the crimes of clergy [see Royal Commission case study page 318).

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No cases in Oz where compensation awarded for non-pecuniary loss due to breach of fiduciary duty. Also limited by statute of limitations.

page 19: Criminal prosecutions: very high attrition rate in reported cases.

page 21: Governments try to make criminal justice a viable path for victims.

page 22: No offences for concealing sex crimeds, but solid possibilties.

page 23: Vitimes of crimes compensation.

I.4: Aims of the Research

2.2.1: ‘The overarching thesis question that drove the design of the empirical work is whether the victims of Catholic clergy sexual abuse in Australia are finding justice.’

Monday 31 August 2026

2.2.1: What processes are victims using to seek justice? Are they working? Are they just?

Audience? Scholarly? Gaining an understanding of the law and the legal barriers to victims obtaining compensation. Secondary victims need to be compensated.

2.3: Empirical Resarch

2.4.1: 70 primary sources interviewd, 1 defaulted, 23 primary, 18 secondary, 5 non-legal, 12 legal + 1 victim/non-legal/advocate.

2.4.2: Semi structurd and unstructured; advance notice; at home.

2.4.3: Security of audio files. Coding of transcriptions.

Ethical approval from Monash U Human Research C’tee.

2.5.1: Recruitment

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Victims recruited through advocacy group, given explanatory statement. articles in newspapers / legal professionals and advocates /prosecutors and judges.

2.5.2: Addressing risks for victims; and the researcher themself may need therapeutic support. Hubbard: Emotions have epistemological significance.

Data analysis: ‘grounded theory’ seeking explanatory models.

2.6.2: NVivo coding system

2.7: Doctrinal research method developed with common law.sourcing and examining cases.

2.8: Limitations of research: discovering what victims require for justice and the personal goal of bringing about legal reform, and find out what is needed.

Selection bias in victim choice: the goal was to give voice to victims: ‘standpoint theoretical perspective’. 12 legal advocates interviewed have represented 2000 victims and firmly supported the view that their actual suffering was minimized by Catholic institutional protocols.

Chapter 3 page 55: How Did the Victims Conceptualize Justice?

[Aside] Insofar as my view of divinity was rejected by the church and I was expelled my position was completely ignored and I was treated as a heretic with no voice.

Melbourne Response and Toward Healing did not mention “justice”. In my life since then my search for scientific theology has generally been treated as quixotic foolishness.

Criteria for justice: what do the victims think would be just? 1. Truth; 2. Accountability; 3. Money; 4. The offender; 5. Apology; 6. Counselling; 7. Prevention. Criteria extracted from 56 inteviewees.

Cohn: Ten methods of acknowledgement for truth commissions.

Note: Judy’s book provides a paradigm for correcting the much deeper problem of the Church lying about everything, not just sexual violence.

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3.3.1: Victim’s truth and Church’s truth. Church is radically wrong.

page 58: Victim impact statement only mentiond by legal professionals.

2.3.2: Acknowledgement by Church and Hierarchy because the majority of victims would never have had their day in court.

The [one] priest involved was pessimistic – after 30 years still hard to get someone to listen.

3.3.3: County Court Judges thought guilty plea was more powerful than conviction. No victims sought acknowledgment by the offender.

3.4: Accountability by Church hierarchy. 1. Prosecution for concealing sex crimes; 2. Mandatory reporting; 3. Making the church a prosecutable legal entity; 4. Transparent and fair process; power has to be taken away from the church [particularly the power to infallibly enforce lies].

Monetary compensation made difficult by the legal defences used by the Church discussed in chapter 4.

Loss and damage in terms of human potential. I could have had a real science degree in the time I was in the order being taught crap; a joke. Paying compensation should hurt the Church as much as the Church hurt its victims.

3.5.4: No amount of compensation would heal the pain.

3.5.1: Successful criminal prosecutions necessary

Laicization.

Apology: 12 ingredients align with Canadian Commission: 1. unreserved and genuine; 2. face to face; 3. complete regret; 4. senior representation; 5. by representative if offender refuses; 6. personal; 7. comprehensive of victim’s needs; 8. reparation; 9.pastoral; 10. in writing; 11. acknowledgment of harm; 12.apologizer take rsponibiliy. Not evryone felt an apology would help them. Some wanted no further contact.

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Only three victims wanted apology from the offender. Why? The concealment of the crime by the clergy intensified the impact of the crime (indicating that the church condoned it); loss of faith, beyond abuse from a non religious perpetrator. Mental /credal assault on the mind. This feeling very significant in my case.

3.8: Counselling (14 intviewees), mostly legal and non-legal advocates). One stop shop paid for by the Church, eg Vietnam vet TPI card. Only two primary victims proposed counselling. Me?

3.9: Prevention of further crimes - a duty and a responsibility of the Church. Suffering less painful if used to help future generations.

3.10: Secondary victims.

3.11: Seven criteria for justice to be used in Chapter 7.

Chapter 4: Looking for justice: I

Focus on case law re vicarious liability of Roman Catholic Church. Ellis defence: Church does not exist legally. NSW Court of Appeal 2007; Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney [see page 318].

4.2: Australian law

Conflict about vicarious and non-delegatable duty in QLD and NSW intermediate courts required resolution in the High Court.

4.2.2: Non-delegatable duties: duty of principal cannot be delegated to contractor - it is a ‘personal duty’ to ensure that reasonable care is taken by others. Complex discussion pp 87-89. N-D duty in Oz ‘on the wane’.

4.2.3: Vicarious liability: 2 factors: 1: Employment relationship; 2: Tort associatd with employment. Church claims it does not employ its staff.

Canadian case: Bazeley vs Curry found school authority vicariously liable for sexual assaults by an employee. Decided on “enterprise risk”: if there is a risk in the employment, it is for the employer to bear the risk.

Jacoby vs Griffiths: employee of children’s club assaulted two children in his own home. UK case page 92. Back to Oz page 95, Lepore and Victorian inquiry chapter 8.

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4.2.4 page 96: ‘The Ellis Defense’ leaves victims of clergy sex crimes without an appropriate legal entity to sue. maybe I have to sue the Vatican.

page 97: ‘The relationship between the Catholic Church and its individual office holders is too remote to attract vicarious liability.’ Ellis’ counsel whose appeal to the High Court said: ‘we say that such an immunity would be an outrage to any reasonable sense of justice and we say it is wrong in law.’

4.3.1: Life after Lister (from UK, page 92) England and Wales Court of Appeal expanded vicarious liability resulting in Roman Catholic Archdiocese being held vicariously liable for child sexual offences by one of its priests.

Maga page 99: ‘a non-catholic, was sexually assaulted as a boy by a priest, Father Clonan.’

page 102: JGE: Canon Law says no employment relationship between bishop and priest. Canon Law says priest is “holder of office”. Final Court of Appeal held effective employment relationship between bishop and priest page 107. Various claimants page 108. Claims brought by 170 men against the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (the Institute) argued against vicarious liability for the Brothers but Lord Phillips “with whom all four other lord justices agreed”, allowed the appeal and found that this was not a borderline case. On the contrary it was based on the satisfaction of the relevant criteria, one that was fair, just and reasonable for the Institute to share vicarious liability with the managers.”

4.4: Liability in Australia – the only country in the Common Law world that denies legal remedy of vicarious liability for clerical sexual assaults.

4.5: At this point [2015] Ellis defence remains supreme.

Chapter 5: Criminal Jurisdiction: Looking for Justice II

Was justice delivered by the criminal system? Data from interviewees.

5.3: page 110: Victims typically report negative experiences with the criminal justice system and the legal process in particular.

Tuesday 1 September 2026

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Chapter 6, page 131: Looking for justice III: Roman Catholic Church internal complaint processes.

6.2.4: Themes: 1. Truth; 2. Healing; 3. Pastoral; 4. Decision + compensation

Judy Courtin saga: (doctorate and legal practice) provides me with a pardigm for my interface with the RCC. Now I have Cognitive Cosmogenesis (my thesis) in print I need to make a business out of it, but how? Discovery; second book; ‘learned’ articles. Now complete notes on her thesis and decide what to buy next - SBM? Courtin’s task made easier because the RCC was committing real [and very generally recognized] crimes. My problem is that it is promoting false doctrines which have nevertheless a long and glorious historical pedigree and I have to document the damage which I see, as in my letter to Courtin, as closely related to imperialism, genocide and war, ie [arbitrary and unfounded] beliefs that cause military conflict.

Letter to Judy Courtin [29 August 2026]

Dear Dr Judy,

Today I found your article in the May/June issue of Precedent: A reply to the dark side. My first response was to fill out the form to join the Australian Lawyer's Alliance and email the membership person that I would forward the fee soon.

The second was your conclusion, in the light of the bolted legal horse, that For the Catholic Church to be held vicariously liable, we should not have to meddle with the principles of vicarious liability. The Church simply needs to re-define its arcane canonical relationship with its clergy to one of employment. Now I have started reading your thesis and I can see that in its day it was a one woman equivalent of the Julia Gillard royal commission, deeply motivated by the tragedy in your own family. Although it is directed to the “scholarly” milieu, it must have carried enormous weight in the subsequent grilling of the Church through your historical perspective that identifies the Church as a repeat offender.

I have little doubt that its record goes back more than a thousand years and that clerical abuse of children has been among us at least since the Pharaohs adopted the role of papacy and used military power to gift themselves the ownership of all humanity.

My brilliant daughter, who I introduced to you in a previous letter, is married to an Israeli. They are fortunately resident in Australia. My “working” history of theology is that when edged weapons, horses and wheels made it possible for imperial forces to destroy vast swathes of indigenous culture the literate theological classes joined in to handle the administration.

Christianity suffered this fate when the Roman bishops sold out to Constantine. His imperial ancestors had no doubt taught him that propaganda is a far cheaper way to control populations so that they can be used rather than slaughtered. In the Old Days gods preferred genocide. The tenth plague on Egypt, slaughter of every newborn creature fits this. The books of Moses might suggest that Moses himself organized this revolution in the name of his imaginary god Yahweh. Yahweh became a global reality in the infallible Catholic Church, written into law. In the immortal words of Monty Python “its written, that’s why”. Hammurabi had long since carved the law in stone and Mr Trump is now reshaping reality with “Executive Orders”.

My next thought was to see, in the light of your argument with Annesley KC, that the judicial discovery and documentation of a new precedent in the law is analogous to the discovery of a new fact or truth in science. Over the centuries scientists have often been wrong, but their observational method of discovery leads them to the truth because it forces them to align their beliefs to reality.

Insofar as I would like to be a scientific theologian, this is the story of my book: the physical world is god’s body and we approach god’s mind, as we approach one another, by studying body language, which includes speech and everything else we do. This language is transmitted by physical sensation. The key to salvation is to feel and respect the divine nature.

An obscure point in my book is Aquinas’s definition of omnipotence: an omnipotent god can do anything which is not self contradictory. At the beginning of the twentieth century David Hilbert produced a logical definition of mathematics which aligns with Aquinas’s omnipotence: mathematicians are free to dream up any mathematical structure that does not lead to contradiction. Kurt Gödel discovered that logical perfection does not outlaw incompleteness; Alan Turing went on to see that logical perfection does not outlaw incomputability. Determinism cannot survive.

The would be cleric Charles Darwin realized that in the perfectly logical (and therefore divine) universe reproductive uncertainty and variation are essential to creativity. So the conclusion in my book is that the universe has created itself within a structureless and consistent eternal initial starting point. It has, from a scientific point of view, created natural law which is effectively the foundation of common law and its parliamentary and dictatorial offshoots.

Going a little bit further, the whole universe is an enormous precedent. Further, some precedents, like the idea that the Catholic Church and its teachings are above the law, require correction as you have noted. Evolution takes care of the same problem by the extinction of species that are no longer consistent with their environment.

I was thinking about this reading the ALA website when I came to the page “Write for us” and the line “To discuss writing for Precedent, please contact Tess Kerbell, ALA Editor and Production Manager. I thought that my book might be rephrased as a story of the incremental tailoring of legal precedent over about 14 billion years.

Principle 7 at the back of the book “Symmetry with respect to complexity” is the key link. Quantum mechanics sounds a bit arcane and seems widely misunderstood, but it is really about the fundamental process of the universe where possibilities are sifted at an exceedingly fast and small scale and various choices made. Some fundamental structures like the conservation of energy and the direction of time have become fixed, but the possibilities remain endless. The same process goes on everywhere all the time. From my point of view I am an alliance of 50 trillion cells each made of hundreds of billions of atoms and I (and all of them) are going through this process all the time. I have a headful of possibilities and am continuously choosing which one to do next. I am acting quantum mechanically, sifting possibilities.

This is the mechanism of evolution pointed out by Darwin made possible by variation, made possible in turn because logical consistency shows that the determinism attributed by the Church to its god is mathematically inconsistent, as Gödel and Turing found. Experience suggests that the law will always be evolving.

My expulsion from the order was not very dramatic; such damage as the Church did to me was embedded in the Church by the Apostle Paul who cast the flesh as the enemy of the spirit so that I learnt at an early age that physical pleasure was a mortal sin and that would send me to hell. My response was supererogation, going over the top to please God, a bit like MAGAs and Donald. I was saved by Thomas Aquinas who introduced Aristotle from Islam into the European Christian academy and set out to create a scientific theology. He was barely aware of any of the real science that started with ruling class investment in astrology which led to astronomy and physics.

By the time they threw me out I had been arguing with the master of studies for about two years and had realized that Aquinas (the intellectual founder of Dominican theology) had the right idea but his survival depended on accepting the false model of god propagated by imperial theologies since time immemorial. My book seems to be pretty hard going for the average reader because in the back of my mind was a plan to make my argument foolproof by exploiting the nineteenth century struggles in logic and mathematics which arose from the somewhat failed effort to make differential calculus logically consistent.

This led to the Principia of Whitehead and Russell which led to Gödel and Turing above. Whitehead & Russell (1910, 1962): Principia Mathematica (Cambridge Mathematical Library)

The upshot of all this is that you have given me a new respect for the structure and complexity of the law which has mostly appeared in my life in the form of speeding and parking fines. I did once try to explain to a magistrate that growing dope was ok and got off with good behaviour. I am now on course (I think) to writing a new book which examines institutions like the Catholic Church and the Papacy who claim to be above the common law by quoting the infallible words of an imaginary divinity.

Best wishes,

PSS: Both my parents were GP’s and my mother was widely known as Mrs Doctor Nicholls. Now, in a slightly more modern age, you have become to me Ms Dr Courtin.

I am very proud of my daughter Dr Sophie Hertzberg-Nicholls, although I have explained to her mother than I think she owes me an apology for falsely branding me a pedophile on Facebook.

My gay brother Andrew incinerated himself a couple of years ago but I appreciated his support in my post monastic days for his version of a family motto: “We’re not prejudiced, we just know.”

Thesis (cont) 6.2.1 Differences between the Melbourne Response and Towards Healing.

Melbourne Response applied only to Melbourne Archdiocese (Archbishop/Cardinal Pell). Toward Healing rest of Australia (140 Church leaders (see §6.6)

6.3: Truth (page 135) Victims found MT and TH often failed to engage with them, (page 138). Minimizing harm and severity (140). Premature closure of files. Burden of proof on victim 6.3.2; Did not eeal truth about multiple offenses by individual offenders.

6.3.4 Victims silenced.

6.3.5 Summary and see Chapter 7.

6.4.4 Melbourne response data.

6.5 Legislative approaches: ‘It it just a front to keep the business going’.

6.5.2: Legal reprsentation: Victims not always informed of their right.

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6.5.3: Over invstigation: ‘I had to tell my whole story all over again.’

6.5.4: Threats and conditions: discussed by half the interiewees.

6.5.5: Victims threatened with Ellis defense or withholding counselling etc.

6.6: Theme 4: counselling, apology, compensation, decision.

According to Church protocols provision of these services entirely discretionary. Multiple person in MR and TH given decision making power.

6.6.1: Towards Healing claims no cap on amounts but approximately 140 decision makers. Melbourne Response capped at $75000. Legal interviewees faced difficulty getting acceptable offers and Church offers relatively low.

6.6.2: One victim happy with apology, all others not.

6.6.3: Counselling. One third received continued counselling, 2/3 limited or none.

6.6.4: Decision making: Completely discretionary and lacked transparency and guidelines.

6.6.4: Inconsistent outcome, not reviewable.

6.7: Conclusion: ‘The data clearly demonstrate that concealment and cover-up of sex crimes are not just an historical occurrence. [. . .] This resarch reveals that such concealment of truth continues in many cases in MR and TH.

page 173: ”MR and TH have failed.”

Chapter 7: Evaluation of pathways to justice.

7.2: Seven criteria for justice identified by interviewees in chapter 3. Two aims: 1. How well lived experience of victims meet criteria in chapter 1; and 2. Evaluate victims experience matches pathways in civil, criminal and church paths to justice. Results summarizd in Table 7.1 page 185.

Chapter 8: Conclusions: Author motivated by 11 yo relative revealing abuse by Xian Bros 20 years after the event.

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Australian Child Institutional Abuse Royal Commission case Study 8: Ellis. Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Report of Case Study No 8: Mr John Ellis's experience of the Towards Healing process and civil litigation

Wednesday 2 September 2026

Letter to the Editor, Corriere della Sera,

Dear Luciano Fontana,

A problem with the Vatican

I am sorry that I do not know Italian, even though I studied theology in Latin, so I must write to you in English.

When I was 18 years old I joined the Dominican Order and closely studied the work of Thomas Aquinas. I was impressed by the way he had introduced the science of Aristotle into Christianity. During the Second Vatican Council I suggested that we could to the same thing, making theology a real science by accepting that the physical world is the real word of God, God’s body language. We can read the glory of God in the beauty of the world.

The Order decided that my idea is a heresy and I was made to leave even though I had been there for 5 years and taken the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. I had to go but I felt that they were making a mistake. Now, 60 years later, I am 81 years old and have published a book: Cognitive Cosmogenesis, a systematic intefgration of physics and theology, in which I show by a careful study of physics and logic that my idea is quite consistent with reality.

I thought it would only be fair to send copies of my book to the Vatican so that they could review it and warn against it if it really is heretical. I sent copies to Pope Leo, to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and to the Pontifical Academy of Science, which would be well qualified to judge it. My gifts were all returned unopened.

I decided to try again, sending one copy to the Dicastery and another to the Academy, thinking that Pope Leo would be too busy to read it anyway. The second copy to the Dicastery has been returned unopened, but the one to the Academy is still out there.

My book is readily available on the Internet, at Amazon for instance, and I am hoping that one or your learned writers could review it and bring it to the attention of the Church. I think they should know about it.

Best wishes,

Thursday 3 September 2026

Let us make the sections cl4l_. . . quite comprehensive so that they constitute in effect the alternative creation story first mooted in the internet and in Cognitive Cosmology, laying a foundation for Culture, Essays, Gravitation and Minkowski space, Problems, and Wilderness [subsequent sections of L4L].

Write to OP Provincial Dominic Murphy OP, Camberwell. Transcribe notes26m05d03 page 96. Only legal foundation of the Order is a real state management organization. Poverty, chastity and obedience are a form of imperialistic slavery justified by hyper extensive measures of service, virtue and pastoral relationships. We look after our sheep and shear them and eat them, good shepherds. An extraordinary amount of evil power is embodied in religious language.

The magnificence of he Universe is the magnificence of god. NASA. NASA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friday 4 September 2026

Bit brain dead after cataract surgery but have found a typo in my stock exchange records and now back to work comparing the absolute beauty of the Divine universe to Dante’s boring heaven in the Divine Comedy. Dante Alighieri - Wikipedia: Divine Comedy

Section in cl4l03_quantum explaining problem with field theory now size of quantum spin in Minkowski space and my radical solution: put Hilbert space first.

Can we say that a particle is a quantum of action and so the actions of the particles observe in Minkowski space fit th xpression ΔE . Δ t ≈ Δp . Δx ≈ ℏ. How does energy activate form? Energy is a time sequence of actions (when we are in Minkowski space) units of angular momentum, logical operators embodied in matrices as described in Neilsen and Chuang. The power of a good sentence is unlimited. Power corrupts /power creates, ie an operator. Nielsen & Chuang (2016): Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

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Energy is conserved by quanta of action which are both creation and annihilation, creating positive fermions and negative bosons whose connection and separation are primordial operations, communication ≡ construction. Here we are writing poetry, like mathematics, poesis is universl interface between matter (fermion) and force (massless boson). Let us suppose that the massive bosons in the elecroweak sector are a furphy connected to dark matter, more poetry. [Notebook] Poesis II Notes vol 19, Poesis Notes vol 3, 8/1/82 - 29/12/82, 12/1/53 - 23/6/83.

cl4l04_Gravitation, bifurcation, energy, qubit, fermion. boson
cl4l05_Physics in Minkowski space
cl4l06_Inertial space, special relativity and mass shell.

Saturday 5 September 2026

My life, like everybody else, seems to have been lived on the limits of possibility, trying to achieve great results with minimal resources. Recounted in last night’s long and complicated dream, trying to turn a borrowed road train around in the narrow roads of Elands to help a friend move a mob of cattle from A to B. A typical example of the strange hallucinations of a dreaming mind. Perhaps recalled in my memories of my Poesis notebook written in the 1980s, and my current project to generate a simple vision of the creation of the universe for my lust-4-life website. Minor health and accommodation problems are colouring my life at

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present but the show is going on slowly. First royalies from my book this month. I am hoping for a few thousand.

From my point of view the future of the work depends on a turnaround from the Trump fantasy that is destroying the US and which forms the backbone of the Catholic mythology causing two thousand years of war. I offered the Dominican Order an update on Aquinas’s thirteenth century scientific Ansatz and the order rejected me. Your motto Veritas is still a murderous lie, contributing to the massacre of thousands of ‘heretics’ in the era of Catholic imperialist war against Islam. I am sure that there are historians in the Order who realize that Aquinas’s essay De Ente et Essentia was first written by Muslim theologians but the Church resolutely sticks to its lies claiming infallibility and condoning the abuse of women and children in the face of law, truth and morality, enforcing ancient victimization of children that seems to have been an element of religious formation since time immemorial. Crusades - Wikipedia, Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, Avicenna - Wikipedia

> Darwin showed that the Christian creator is an impossible false god and the time has come, after the Royal Commission into the Institutional abuse of children has called out the catholic evil. For millennia religions have avoided the law by the Ellis defence [or equivalent]. Now they have at last have been legislated into responsible members of society, the next step is to legislate against the intellectual abuse which I suffered. What we need is a comprehensive list of the abusive criminals identified by the Royal Commission.

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The Egyptian Moses documented his own genocide of the Egyptian firstborn and Israel has remained true to this fiction, Netanyahu playing the role of the crusader Innocent III.

To Movies, Silenced Palace 10.45. Selena Miles (2025): Silenced

Anti abortionist Christians base their position on an unsustainable chain of lies which are not part of the universal wilderness in which every particle has mind and agency and the system as a whole respects justice through the mechanism of conservation and sharing of energy which is the power to work and to communicate. We have to develop the concept of justice as a consequence of the principles of self determination and agency developed in Quantocracy: The universal quantum mechanical foundations of democracy and freedom

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Further reading

Books

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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Whitehead (1910, 1962), Alfred North, and Bertrand Arthur Russell, Principia Mathematica (Cambridge Mathematical Library), Cambridge University Press 1910, 1962 The great three-volume Principia Mathematica is deservedly the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics. Its aim is to deduce all the fundamental propositions of logic and mathematics from a small number of logical premisses and primitive ideas, and so to prove that mathematics is a development of logic. Not long after it was published, Gödel showed that the project could not completely succeed, but that in any system, such as arithmetic, there were true propositions that could not be proved.  
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1970 Huascarán debris avalanche - Wikipedia, 1970 Huascarán debris avalanche - Wikipedia, the free rncyclopedia, ' On 31 May 1970, a debris avalanche and mudflow triggered by the Ancash earthquake destroyed the town of Yungay, Peru and 10 nearby villages, leaving up to 30,000 people dead. It is the deadliest avalanche or glacier-related disaster in history,: 16  surpassing the death toll from the previous deadliest avalanche disaster, the avalanches of White Friday on the Italian front of World War I and the third or fourth most deadly landslide-related disaster of the 20th century, after the Haiyuan landslides (China), the Armero tragedy (Colombia) and by some estimates the Khait landslide (Tajikistan).' back

ABC Compass (1992_03_15), The Ultimate Betrayal, back

Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, Albigensian Crusade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The Albigensian Crusade (French: Croisade des albigeois), also known as the Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, what is now southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown and promptly took on a political aspect. It resulted in the significant reduction of practicing Cathars and a realignment of the County of Toulouse with the French crown. The distinct regional culture of Languedoc was also diminished. [. . .]
From 1209 to 1215, the Crusaders experienced great success, capturing Cathar lands and systematically crushing the movement. From 1215 to 1225, a series of revolts caused many of the lands to be regained by the counts of Toulouse. A renewed crusade resulted in the recapturing of the territory and effectively drove Catharism underground by 1244. The Albigensian Crusade had a role in the creation and institutionalization of both the Dominican Order and the Medieval Inquisition. The Dominicans promulgated the message of the Church and spread it by preaching the Church's teachings in towns and villages to stop the spread of heresies, while the Inquisition investigated people who were accused of teaching heresies. Because of these efforts, all discernible traces of the Cathar movement were eradicated by the middle of the 14th century. Some historians consider the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars an act of genocide back

Amin Saikal (2026_09_01), Sanctions and bombs won’t end the war in Iran. Trump is running out of options against an intractable foe, ' The war was meant to be what Trump called “a little excursion” that would be over within a few weeks. But it is now into its seventh month, with no end in sight.
Trump has said he is willing to let the conflict continue for as long as needed to force Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz (which was open to free navigation before the war) and negotiate a deal over its nuclear program (even though experts say Iran was not on the verge of developing a weapon before the war).
The two sides are now in a dangerous limbo, with periodic outbreaks of fighting.
They traded strikes this week, with the US targeting Iran’s Larak island and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) retaliating with attacks on US bases in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
Meanwhile, there are no real negotiations toward finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict.' back

Avicenna - Wikipedia, Avicenna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Ibn Sina (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

Crusades - Wikipedia, Crusades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The Crusades were a series of intermittent military campaigns in the years from 1096 to 1487, sanctioned by various Popes. In 1095 the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I, sent an ambassador to Pope Urban II requesting military support in the Byzantines' conflict with the westward migrating Turks in Anatolia. The Pope responded by calling Catholics to join what later became known as the First Crusade. One of Urban's stated aims was to guarantee pilgrims access to the holy sites in the Holy Land that were under Muslim control while his wider strategy was to reunite the Eastern and Western branches of Christendom, divided after their split in 1054, and establish himself as head of the united Church. This initiated a complex 200-year struggle in the region.' back

Dante Alighieri - Wikipedia, Dante Alighieri - Wikipedia, the free encylopedia, ' Dante Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante c. 1265 – 14 September 1321), was an Italian[ poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy . . . is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to the most educated readers. His De vulgari eloquentiaf (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy. His depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature.' back

Eden Hynninen (2026_02_18), 'Thunderous applause' as vicarious liability laws pass Victoria's upper house, ' The Vicarious Liability Bill passed through Victoria's upper house unopposed yesterday, reversing a High Court decision that found the Catholic Church could not be sued for the actions of a priest.
Lawyer Judy Courtin says it means a priest, Christian brother and possibly a volunteer can now be defined as "akin" or similar to an employee.
What's next?
Dr Courtin says means thousands of victim-survivors now have a chance at their day in court.
Judy Courtin could hear church bells ringing in the distance as she stood outside Victorian parliament with around 50 victim-survivors of clergy abuse.
The group was celebrating a significant milestone yesterday. The state upper house had just passed the Vicarious Liability Act unopposed, effectively reversing a High Court decision that meant churches in Victoria cannot be sued for the actions of one of its priests.
Dr Courtin, a lawyer specialising in justice and accountability for victims of institutional child abuse, said the new law meant a priest, Christian brother and possibly a volunteer could now be defined as "akin" or similar to an employee. back

Gabriel Sherman (2026_09_05), How Murdoch the Sun King sold out the planet, ' [. . .] mFor the past 20 years, I have reported on Rupert Murdoch, who built something beyond a conservative news empire: a fourth branch of government. His machine monetised outrage, spread conspiracy theories and shaped the politics of three continents. He has done more than any living person, I’ve come to believe, to prevent governments from acting on the emissions that are heating the planet.
The tragedy is that it didn’t have to be this way. In 2006, Murdoch invited Al Gore to address a News Corp retreat in Monterey, California. Gore gave the slide show that became his Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Kathryn Murdoch, wife of Rupert’s son James, was so moved that she became an environmental activist. She and James persuaded Rupert to pledge that News Corp would be carbon-neutral within three years. Rupert hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. He flirted with endorsing Barack Obama.
But in 2008, another of Murdoch’s instincts prevailed. Former Fox News chief executive Roger Ailes threatened to resign after a book portrayed Murdoch as ashamed of the network. Fox was one of News Corp’s most profitable businesses. Murdoch chose the business. He gave Ailes a new five-year contract that enshrined Fox News’s editorial independence. The New York Post endorsed Republican John McCain.
Profit is Murdoch’s true ideology. He built his empire by backing politicians who would remove the regulations standing between him and the next acquisition. Often, those politicians were conservative. In Britain, Murdoch championed Margaret Thatcher. Her government declined to refer his 1981 purchase of The Times and The Sunday Times to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission; five years later, Thatcher sent in the police to protect Murdoch’s printing plant during the year-long strike that broke the printers’ unions at Wapping.' back

Jeffrey Nicholls, Cognitive Cosmogenesis: World of Books, back

Jill Filipovic (2016_09_02), Why a Doctor Told Gloria Steinem: ‘You Must Promise Me Two Things’, ' When Gloria Steinem was 22 years old and a recent graduate of Smith College, she found herself sitting in a doctor’s office in London, asking for an abortion. Not long before, she had slipped off her engagement ring, tucked it under her fiancé’s pillow and, in her words, fled. She was headed to India on a fellowship, leaving behind the comfortable domestic life expected of her, and walking into a future that must have looked awfully fuzzy even without an unwanted pregnancy blurring her path forward.
This was 1957, and elective abortion was illegal in both the United States and Britain (not to mention much of the rest of the world). Ms. Steinem managed to find a doctor who agreed to help her anyway. She dedicated her 2015 memoir to him, recalling what he told her: “You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.”
By the time Ms. Steinem died this week at the age of 92, she had done more than anyone could have possibly imagined with her life. Among her biggest accomplishments was enabling millions of other women to do what they wanted with their lives.
At the core of that work was reproductive freedom, as she called it: the right to have sex for pleasure without shame and to say no without grave consequence, to use contraception to prevent unintended pregnancies, to have access to safe and legal abortion, to have children by choice in safety and with support. She, and the second-wave feminist movement of which she was a part, succeeded in many of those aims. Premarital sex has been largely stripped of its stigma. Contraception is legal in the United States and enjoys widespread use and strong public approval. Pregnant women and mothers still lack adequate support, but millions have had access to parental leave, workplace protections and a level of spousal help that was virtually unheard-of when Ms. Steinem was young. Perhaps the pinnacle of those efforts was the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which affirmed abortion as a constitutional right of American women.
In the years after Roe, women flooded into colleges and the work force. Millions were able to do what they wanted with their lives. They became doctors and lawyers, artists and entrepreneurs, dedicated mothers, aunties and friends. Some became famous for their accomplishments, but most were regular women — you see them at the grocery store, at church, at work, maybe in the mirror every day — whose lives were made better because they were able to choose their own paths. They married for love or loved staying single, cared better for the children they had and chose to have more when they were ready, left abusive relationships, made their own money, made their own mistakes, made their way.
This should have been Ms. Steinem’s legacy. But we all know what happened as Roe hit middle age.' back

Joanna Woodburn & Eden Hynninen (2025_12_20), Grace Tame demands law reform after Diocese of Ballarat cleared of vicarious liability, ' A national campaign is being launched to close a legislative loophole that lawyers say is being "weaponised" to block victim-survivors of child sexual abuse from pursuing justice in court.
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame has joined forces with a man whose legal action against the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat was appealed in the High Court in November 2024.
The man, known by the pseudonym DP, took the diocese to the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2020 claiming psychological injuries for assaults committed by paedophile priest Father Bryan Coffey.
He was five years old when he was sexually abused by Coffey in his parents' home at Port Fairy in 1971.
DP initially launched legal action against the Diocese of Ballarat in 2020.
The Supreme Court found the diocese was vicariously liable for the actions of Coffey, who died in 2013, and awarded DP $200,000 in damages for pain and suffering.
The Court of Appeal then dismissed the diocese's challenge.
But the diocese appealed to the High Court, which set aside the previous judgments and found that the Diocese of Ballarat was not vicariously liable for Coffey's offences.
"The case was draining," DP said in a statement.
"I have been frustrated at the overall legal process and devastated at the outcome." back

Judith Edwina Courtin PhD (2015), Sexual Assault and the Catholic Church: Are Victims Finding Justice?, ' Over the last two to three decades in Australia, and internationally, there has been increasing exposure of institutional child sex crimes within the Catholic Church which has prompted demands for justice. In 2012, the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Non-government Organisations was established as was a commission of inquiry into the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese in New South Wales. At the end of 2012, a national Royal Commission was set up to investigate child sexual assaults in government and non-government institutions, including the Catholic Church. This doctoral thesis commenced two years before these inquiries. It is a qualitative empirical study and case law analysis that sets out to determine whether victims of Catholic clergy sexual abuse in Australia are finding justice. To tackle this line of investigation, 70 people from Victoria and New South Wales, including primary and secondary victims, were interviewed about their experiences with civil litigation, criminal prosecutions and the Catholic Church’s internal complaints processes. In order to determine whether victims had found justice within these processes, a preliminary question needed to be addressed: ‘What is justice for these people?’ This latter line of inquiry identified seven critical criteria for justice for victims. These criteria were employed ultimately to evaluate the three pathways to justice, as outlined above. The findings of this research demonstrate that victims of clergy sexual abuse interviewed in this research are not finding justice. Further, those victims who attended the Church’s internal complaints processes, the Melbourne Response and Towards Healing, as well as not finding justice, suffered additional abuse and harm. The thesis concludes by outlining the significance of these findings and the types of reforms necessary to effectively address the justice needs of victims and their families, as identified in this research. back

METR _ Redwood Research (2026_08_26), Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Publication date:, 'Two METR staff members (Hjalmar Wijk and Ajeya Cotra) and a Redwood Research staff member contracting with METR (Ryan Greenblatt) worked on premises at OpenAI over a total of six days1 to attempt to form an independent understanding of model behavior observed during the recent incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned “message board.” Our investigation focused mostly2 on the period between July 7th, 2026 and July 13th, 2026. The earlier incidents from training and the subsequent compromise of OpenAI infrastructure described in OpenAI's recent Black Hat presentation were out of scope, as was OpenAI’s investigation process and planned remediation. Per our standard policy, we did not take payment from OpenAI for this independent assessment. back

NASA - Wikipedia, NASA - Wikipedia, the free ncyclopedia, ' The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA /ˈnæsə/) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, as well as research in aeronautics and space. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., NASA operates ten field centers across the US and is organized into three mission directorates: Human Spaceflight, Research and Technology, and Science. Established in 1958 amid the Space Race, NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the US space program a distinct civilian orientation focused on peaceful applications. Since then, it has led most American spaceflight programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the Apollo program, Skylab, the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station (ISS), and the ongoing multi-national Artemis program.
NASA maintains extensive ground and communications infrastructure, including the Deep Space Network and the Near Earth Network. Its science programs focus on Earth observation through the Earth Observing System, heliophysics research, Solar System exploration with robotic missions such as New Horizons and the Perseverance rover, and astrophysics investigations using space-based observatories including the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Launch Services Program oversees operations for uncrewed launches.' back

Peter Horsefield (1992_05), Sexuality: Is the dam of sexual assault breaking in the Church, ' One out of ten women will be raped in their lifetime. Rape ofwomen occurrs in 7% - 12% of all marriages.
* Thirty-eight percent of girls (9% of boiys) will be sxually assaultd in so=ome way by the time they are q8 yars if age, Incest takes place in one out of ten houses, back

Quantum superposition - Wikipedia, Quantum superposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics that states that linear combinations of solutions to the Schrödinger equation are also solutions of the Schrödinger equation. This follows from the fact that the Schrödinger equation is a linear differential equation in time and position. More precisely, the state of a system is given by a linear combination of all the eigenfunctions of the Schrödinger equation governing that system.' back

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Report of Case Study No 8: Mr John Ellis's experience of the Towards Healing process and civil litigation, ' This is the report of the public hearing that examined the Catholic Church’s response to a complaint of child sexual abuse by Mr John Ellis and the litigation he subsequently commenced. This was identified as appropriate for a case study for a number of reasons. This case study highlights a number of issues that will be dealt with as part of the Royal Commission’s examination of redress, including: *the role an institution should play in assessing complaints of conduct by thos associated with the institution
* The transparency of the process and possible outcomes
* the components of a review process
* the relationship between litigation and institution-based redress schemes
* the role of pastoral care
* the experience of civil litigation by a victim of child sexual abuse
* the response of an institution that had not adopted guidelines for responding to civil litigation.' back

Selena Miles (2025), Silenced, ' Jennifer Robinson, Amber Heard and Brittany Higgins have all experienced the full force of weaponised defamation laws – but these indomitable activists and survivors of gendered violence won’t keep quiet.
> In 2017, #MeToo replaced the social stigma of discussing gendered violence with public solidarity and support for victim-survivors. The re-silencing was swift, vicious … and legalistic. Alleged perpetrators now used defamation lawsuits as cudgels to punish survivors for speaking out, and to deter journalists from exposing prominent people to public scrutiny. As a barrister who famously stood up for Amber Heard in a long-running, all-too-public defamation case in the UK, Jennifer Robinson has dedicated her career to fighting against these attacks, witnessing firsthand how such actions drag survivors through emotionally, professionally and financially ruinous legal proceedings.
In her incendiary exposé that premiered in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, Selina Miles (Martha: A Picture Story, MIFF 2019) gives voice to experts like Robinson and Sibongile Ndashe who – in their work as lawyers and activists – doggedly pursue procedural justice, as well as women like Higgins, Heard and Colombian journalist Catalina Ruiz-Navarro who’ve been the targets of or caught in defamation lawfare pursued by alleged perpetrators. This furious, urgent documentary indicts a misogynist status quo: as Ndashe says, “The law is designed not to believe women".' back

Sergei Treil (2026_01_21), Linear Algebra Done Wrong, '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 disciplines. 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

Spotlight (film) - Wikipedia, Spotlight (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests.' back

Superposition principle - Wikipedia, Superposition principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' The superposition principle, also known as superposition property, states that, for all linear systems, the net response caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses that would have been caused by each stimulus individually. So that if input A produces response X and input B produces response Y then input (A + B) produces response (X + Y).
This principle has many applications in physics and engineering because many physical systems can be modeled as linear systems. For example, a beam can be modeled as a linear system where the input stimulus is the load on the beam and the output response is the deflection of the beam. The importance of linear systems is that they are easier to analyze mathematically; there is a large body of mathematical techniques, frequency-domain linear transform methods such as Fourier and Laplace transforms, and linear operator theory, that are applicable. Because physical systems are generally only approximately linear, the superposition principle is only an approximation of the true physical behavior.' back

Wanning Sun (2026_09_02), Barring access and promoting ‘positive’ news: how the Chinese government has controlled the narrative during the Tibet floods, 'As rescue efforts have continued on both sides of the border following the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, a fight over how the disaster is being reported has been growing in intensity on social media.
The dispute centres on the claims and counterclaims following a story by the BBC’s China correspondent, Laura Bicker, about how China is censoring videos of the floods.
Bicker said videos of the landslide and flood surge sweeping through Gyirong Port on the border was scrubbed from the internet, in part, because Beijing fears instability in the politically sensitive region of Tibet.
Some social media users, however, have posted screenshots of the footage used by the BBC, pointing out it had actually been shown in the Chinese media. One Chinese journalist put it bluntly: “Never seen the BBC spread rumours so blatantly”.
The Chinese government has long complained about what it sees as Western media “bias” in reporting on Tibet. Its supporters seem to have doubled down on this narrative this week on social media, zeroing in on the BBC. [. . .]
The disaster has also occurred at a time of growing distrust between China and the West. This seems to be adding to the perceptions of biased coverage. None of this is helped by the logistical difficulties in accessing both the disaster site and first-hand sources of information.
Chinese restrictions are making it harder for Western journalists to independently verify what is happening. The resulting information gap is raising suspicions in the West and criticism of censorship and biased coverage in Chinese media.
And that criticism, in turn, may reinforce Beijing’s belief that Western reporting on Tibet is inherently biased, giving it another reason to restrict information.' back

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