Born to do Math: August 2017

Tuesday, 22 August 2017

Born to do Math 73 – Buffers, Far and Away, and Again

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Born to do Math 73 – Buffers, Far and Away, and Again

Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner

August 22, 2017

[Beginning of recorded material]

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Two things come to mind from that. One is an older discussion, which I am recalling around “buffers” of order preservation in the universe at various scales. Another one is the utility of using an IC framework in general.

If you’re using an IC framework, there are distinctions that you can make between fields that are sufficient, so that misuse of terms outside of their proper field then makes non-sense. So, you may use sociological terminology in physics.

Rick Rosner: Feynman lived in the early era of media. He was pissed at modern advertising, which was being pissed at the loose use of the word “energy.” He had a precise meaning in the context of physics. He hated its use in advertising because it never referenced actual physical energy.

It always referred to some young woman because she was heavy and jumping up and down.

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Authors[1]

Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
RickRosner@Hotmail.Com
Rick Rosner
scott-jacobsen

Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
Scott.D.Jacobsen@Gmail.Com
In-Sight Publishing

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Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Born to do Math 72 – Photon, Photon, and Away!

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Born to do Math 72 – Photon, Photon, and Away!

Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner

August 15, 2017

[Beginning of recorded material]

Rick Rosner: In an expanding universe, a moving photon is moving away from – the farther and longer it travels then the more it is moving into the neighbourhoods of galaxies that are receding from its point of origin, so the longer it travels the faster the galaxies or the average expansion velocity of space is relative to where it came from.

So, it is going to be wretched. But that loss of energy—I just read that there are many more photons than there are massive particles. Particles that have rest mass. In every cubic centimetre, there are roughly 400 photons leftover from the Big Bang.

I guess from the Cosmic Microwave Background. Where the average number of massive particles is one proton for every cubic metre, so that means like 400 million times as many Big Bang photons or Cosmic Microwave photons as there are protons.

That doesn’t even include all the photons that have emitted since. Another place to hide disorder might be black holes. Where depending on what the rules for black holes are, I mean, Stephen Hawking and people like him have spent their careers debating the informational rules and black holes with regards to information.

Whether information is lost when stuff falls into a black hole, whether it eventually comes back out, does it come back out with any amount of information that went in, in any way? Under IC, black holes aren’t entirely black and can, maybe, be possibly seen as semi-independent information processors.

So, not only do they, they might be sources of order rather than additional information and order – rather than relentless black holes of information, constantly destroying whatever gets close enough to fall into them. So, one narrative framework for IC is that it might be good for talking about the universe in the context of the universe being an order-generating system in contrast to the random doomed-to-have-zero-information of the 20^th century. That’s it.

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Authors[1]

Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
RickRosner@Hotmail.Com
Rick Rosner
scott-jacobsen

Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
Scott.D.Jacobsen@Gmail.Com
In-Sight Publishing

Endnotes

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Tuesday, 8 August 2017

Born to do Math 71 – Big Crunch Theories

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Born to do Math 71 – Big Crunch Theories

Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner

August 8, 2017

[Beginning of recorded material]

Rick Rosner: Then you have Big Crunch theories of the universe where everything collapses back in on itself, everything heats up because everything comes back together, but it is one other means of order eradicating everything. There isn’t any big time 20^th century Big Bang theories of the universe that support the growth or preservation of order throughout the universe indefinitely.

Which feels right to people because it basically says there’s no free lunch anywhere, and you can’t win, say that under IC, IC would be a good framework for talking about the negentropic universe. A universe in which order can increase.

Where the order in the universe does increase due to the gravitational clumping or the clustering of matter, and where waste heat and noise can be sequestered or absorbed, with the result being that you have a net increase in order, which means that the universe isn’t a closed thermodynamic system.

You have places where waste heat is either converted into something else or is hidden, so that it is not a thermodynamically disruptive and entropic deal, one way energy can be absorbed and turned into order is the loss of energy by long-distance photons.

With the absorption by space by photons that travel billions of light years, where it is the Hubble Shift, where the farther away a photon comes from, then the less energy it has, apparently, because it is climbing up a—

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Authors[1]

Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
RickRosner@Hotmail.Com
Rick Rosner
scott-jacobsen

Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
Scott.D.Jacobsen@Gmail.Com
In-Sight Publishing

Endnotes

[1] Four format points for the session article:

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Humble, A. (n.d.). Guide to Transcribing. Retrieved from http://www.msvu.ca/site/media/msvu/Transcription%20Guide.pdf.

Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Born to do Math 70 – Heat Death

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Born to do Math 70 – Heat Death

Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner

August 1, 2017

[Beginning of recorded material]

Rick Rosner: You’ve got the heat death of the universe, which is a universe that keeps going and expanding. A heat death to the universe doesn’t mean that the universe ends up hottish. It means that there are no available sources of energy.

That the universe is at the same temperature, which is going to be low because it is going to be trillions of years in the future. All the sources of energy have been used or burned, and then expelled as waste heat to the point where everything is the same temperature and you can’t pull energy out of anything.

When everything is the same temperature, there’s nothing left to burn. Everything is lukewarm.

[End of recorded material]

Authors[1]

Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
RickRosner@Hotmail.Com
Rick Rosner
scott-jacobsen

Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing
Scott.D.Jacobsen@Gmail.Com
In-Sight Publishing

Endnotes

[1] Four format points for the session article:

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Footnotes & in-text citations in the interview & references after the interview.
This session article has been edited for clarity and readability.

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American Psychological Association. (2010). Citation Guide: APA. Retrieved from http://www.lib.sfu.ca/system/files/28281/APA6CitationGuideSFUv3.pdf.
Humble, A. (n.d.). Guide to Transcribing. Retrieved from http://www.msvu.ca/site/media/msvu/Transcription%20Guide.pdf.