Chapter 28: Principles embedded in this site

Synopsis

Einstein had a strong belief in the ideas of symmetry, invariance and principle. This may have led him astray. His objection to probability in nature (God does not play dice> seems to have steered him away from quantum mechanics so that he spent the last years of his life looking for a comprehensive theory that avoided quantum mechanics. It seems unlikely that any meaningful principle can cover every case. This leads us to via negativa or apophatic theology we cannot say what god is, only what they are not. This is necessary if God is both omniscient and omnipotent. Here we see that simplicity excludes omnipotence, so we start with an eternal, omnipotent, dynamic singularity which we call naked gravitation which creates the Universe guided only by the principle that dynamic contradictions cannot exist.

A physical understanding is completely unmathematical, imprecise, an inexact thing but absolutely necessary to a physicist. Richard Feynman: Lectures on Physics II Chapter 2: Differential Calculus of Vector Fields

Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought. Peter Osper (1957): Review: Albert Szent-Györgyi: Bioenergetics

Perhaps now is the time to widen the quest for understanding still further, to expand the intellectual effort beyond conventional science—to engage the larger non-scientific communities of philosophers, theologians and others who often resonate with the cosmic-evolutionary theme even if not in name, all in an ambitious effort to construct a millennial world view of who we are, where we came from, and how we fit into the cosmic scheme of things as wise, ethical, human beings. Eric Chaisson (2002): Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, page 211

Principle 1: The initial singularity: nothing comes from nothing

If we stand by the proposition that nothing comes from nothing, we are led to propose that either the world or its creator is eternal, that is, had no beginning (and quite possibly, no end).

Principle 2: Zero sum complexification

The idea here is that a symmetry, like electrical neutrality, can be broken into two components, say positive and negative charge, whose sum is zero. The bifurcation of zero energy gravitation into potential and kinetic energy may be another example. This concept is speculative, but motivated by analogy with the notion that the total energy of the Universe remains at all times zero, suggesting that, consistent with its divine nature, it remains forever one and simple. The continued complexification of the Universe proceeds in similar fashion. The next zero sum bifurcation may be the production two classes of particles, fermions and bosons. The next step in the complexification of the Universe may be the emergence of Minkowski space.

Principle 3: The complexity of the Universe is generated through evolution by variation and selection

How did the enormously complex Universe come to be from the structureless initial singularity? Here I propose that the only possibility is a process of evolution driven by the omnipotence of the initial singularity. We say an entity is omnipotent if it can do anything that does not involve contradiction. Evolution proceeds by random variation and deterministic selection. Entities that are not eternal survive for extended periods if they are capable of reproducing themselves.

Principle 4: Each step in evolution requires a dynamic base with kinematic variation

Evolution among living creatures depends on their duality: a kinematic genome contained in a dynamic living body capable of decoding the genome in order to construct itself. We imagine that this structure exists at all stages in the evolution of the Universe, beginning with the dynamic living initial singularity within which Hilbert space and quantum mechanics work to identify stationary states which can be realized with energy drawn from gravitational potential.

Principle 5: Random evolutionary process may discover NP functions to be copied by P processes

The creative random variation of the evolving Universe may not be constrained to computable functions but may discover incomputable NP functions. The reliable reproduction of these structures, however, requires the testing and reproduction of these discoveries by computable functions of the P function level of complexity.

Principle 6: A truly divine Universe is constrained only by the principle of non contradiction

The divinity is traditionally omnipotent, and to be omnipotent is to be constrained only by the inability to create an actual contradiction.

Principle 7: Symmetry with respect to complexity

The operation of quantum mechanics in Hilbert space is essentially the same whether the space is a qubit of two dimensions or a space wth a countable infinity of dimensions. This symmetry also applies to classical communication networks in Minkowski space which comprise networks of atoms comprising two sources and a channel.

Principle 8: The heuristic of simplicity

If the Universe begins as a structureless initial singularity, about which we can say nothing other than that it exists, we may imagine that subsequent developments in the evolution are also relatively simple and easily explained and it would a mistake to seek complex explanations.

Principle 9: Gravitation is code free universal communication

Gravitation interacts with energy alone, regardless of the the form in which that energy exists, so we may conclude that it speaks no particular language and needs no particular coding to perform its function of linking all energetic particles.

Principle 10: Addressable communications require one to one contact

Insofar as individual particles are distinguished by their nature and location in space and time we assume that the messages between them establish a one to one relationship by addressing and coding.

Principle 11: Formal stability is selected by quantum mechanics

The role of quantum mechanics appears to be to select a spectrum of stationary eigenvectors from the tensor product space of interacting particles.

Principle 12: Creation: Gravitation provides energy to convert kinematic formalism into dynamic reality

We assume that the source of mass and energy of the real particles in the Universe arises from, the bifurcation of zero energy gravitation into positive kinetic and negative potential energy.

Principle 13: The information carried by a physical state is equal to the entropy of the space that it occupies

This principle follows from the information theoretical definition of the entropy of a communication source with an alphabet of i symbols ai whose probability of emission is pi given that the sum of the pi is 1: H = Σ i pi log2 pi

Principle 14: Quantization is a certainty principle, not an uncertainty principle

Leopold Kronecker (1823 - 1891) stated in a lecture in 1886 Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. (God made the integers, all else is human work). The quantization of the Universe seems to support this contention and many of the difficulties of quantum field theory seem to arise from using geometrically continuous functions in a logically quantized universe

Principle 15: An unmodulated continuum carries no information

Information is physical and represented by observable physical symbols.Without such symbols there can be no representation of information.

Principle 16: Requisite variety: the measure of information is the measure of control

Gregory Chaitin has explored the relationship between Gödel's incompleteness theory and the cybernetic principle of requisite variety. Chaitin writes: Gödel's theorem may be demonstrated using arguments having an information-theoretic flavor. In such an approach it is possible to argue that if a theorem contains more information than a given set of axioms, then it is impossible for the theorem to be derived from the axioms. In contrast with the traditional proof based on the paradox of the liar, this new viewpoint suggests that the incompleteness phenomenon discovered by Gödel is natural and widespread rather than pathological and unusual .

Principle 17: Theology is the comprehensive theory of everything derived from physical data

Theology is discussion about creation and the creator, theos in Greek, god in English, the source of the reality introduced in Principle 1, the initial singularity.