"Cary Kittrell" <cary@afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote:
What's Art's theological insight into quantum-loop gravity?
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not
be able to gainsay nor resist.
(Luke 21:15, King James scholars' 1611 translation in modern spelling)
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, where against, all your adversaries
shall not be able to speak nor resist.
(Luke 21:15, William Tyndale's 1534 translation in modern spelling)
TO PROFESSOR FARADAY.
129 Union Street,
Aberdeen, 9th November 1857.
DEAR SIR-
....
Now the mode of looking at Nature, which belongs to those who can see the
lines of force, deals very little with "resultant forces," but with a
network of lines of action of which these are the final results, so that I,
for my part, can not realise your dissatisfaction with the law of
gravitation, provided you conceive it according to your own principles. It
may seem very different when stated by the believers in "forces at a
distance," but there can be only differences in form and conception, not in
quantity or mechanical effect, between them and those who trace force by its
lines.
But when we face the great questions about gravitation-Does it require
time? Is it polar to the "outside of the universe" or to anything? Has it
any reference to electricity? or does it stand on the very foundation of
matter, mass or inertia? - then we feel the need of tests, whether they be
cornets or nebulæ, or laboratory experiments, or bold questions as to the
truth of received opinions.
I have now namely tried to show you why I do not think gravitation a
dangerous subject to apply your methods to, and that it may be possible to
throw light on it also by the embodiment of the same ideas, which are
expressed mathematically in the functions of Laplace and of Sir W. R.
Hamilton in Planetary Theory.
But there are questions relating to the connection between
magneto-electricity and certain mechanical effects which seems to me opening
up quite a new road to the establishment of principles in electricity, and a
possible conformation of the physical nature of magnetic lines of force.
Professor W. Thomson seems to have some new lights on this subject.-Yours
sincerely,
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL.
[226]
~~The Life of, p. 336-337 (1882)
TO THE SAME. [i.e., to Faraday]
8 Palace Gardens Terrace,
Kensington, W., 19th Oct. 1861.
DEAR SIR-
....
From the determination by Kohlrausch and Weber of the numerical relation
between the statical and magnetic effects of electricity, I have determined
the elasticity of the medium in air, and assuming that it is the same with
the luminiferous ether, I have determined the velocity of propagation of
transverse vibrations.
The result is 193,088 miles per second (deduced from electrical and
magnetic experiments). Fizean has determined the velocity of light = 193,118
miles per second, by direct experiment.
This coincidence is not merely numerical. I worked out the formulæ in the
country before seeing Weber's number, which is in millimetres, and I think
we have now strong reason to believe, whether my theory is a fact or not,
that the luminiferous and the electromagnetic medium are one.
....
I have also examined the theory of the passage of light through a medium
filled with magnetic vortices, and find that the rotation [245] of the plane
of polarization is in the same direction with that of the vortices, that it
varies inversely as the square of the wave length (as is shown by
experiment), and that its amount is proportional to the diameter of the
vortices.
===
vortex, n. (pl. -texes, -tices)
a whirling mass of water or air, a whirlpool or whirlwind.
===
The absolute diameter of the magnetic vortices, their velocity and their
density, are so involved that, though as yet they are all unknown, the
discovery of a new relation among them would determine them all.
Such a relation might be obtained by the observation of a revolving
electromagnet if our instruments were accurate enough. I have had an
instrument made for this purpose, but I have not yet overcome the effects of
terrestrial magnetism in marking the phenomena.
When I began to study electricity mathematically I avoided all the old
traditions about forces acting at a distance, and after reading your papers
as a first step to right thinking, I read the others, interpreting as I went
on, but never allowing myself to explain anything by these forces. It is
because I put off reading about electricity till I could do it without
prejudice that I think I have been able to get hold of some of your ideas,
such as the electrotonic state, action of contiguous parts, etc., and my
chief object in writing to you is to ascertain if I have got the same ideas
which led you to see your way into things, or whether I have no right to
call my notions by your names.-I remain, yours truly,
J. C. MAXWELL.
[260]
~~The Life of, p. 338-339 (1882)
To Dr. HUGGINS, F.R.S.
Ardhallow, Dunoon, Oct. 13/68.
MY DEAR SIR-
....
Any opinion as to the form in which the energy of gravitation exists in
space is of great importance, and whoever can make his opinion probable will
have made an enormous stride in physical speculation. The apparent
universality of gravitation, and the equality of its effects on matter of
all kinds are most remarkable facts, hitherto without exception; but they
are purely experimental facts, liable to be corrected by a single observed
exception. We cannot conceive of matter with negative inertia or mass; but
we see no way of accounting for the proportionality of gravitation to mass
by any legitimate method of demonstration. If we can see the tails of comets
fly off in the direction opposed to the sun with an accelerated velocity,
and if we believe these tails to be matter and not optical illusions or mere
tracks of vibrating disturbance, then we must admit a force in that
direction, and we may establish that it is caused by the sun if it always
depends upon his position and distance. I therefore admit that the
proposition that the sun repels comets' tails is capable of proof; but
whether he does so by his ordinary attractive power being changed into
repulsion by a change of state of the matter of the tail is another
question. Now, it seems ascertained by simple observations with telescopes
that the coma is foraged by successive explosions out of the nucleus, mostly
on the side of the sun, and that the formation of the tail depends on the
coma, though the substance is invisible in the state of passing from the
coma to the tail. Then, by your observations, the nucleus and coma have
light of their own, probably due to carbon in some gaseous form; but the
tail's light being polarised in the plane of the sun is due to him. Hence
the head is fire and the tail smoke. The head obeys gravitation, which is
exerted on it with precisely the same intensity as on all other known
matter, solid or gaseous. The tail appears to be acted on in a contrary way.
If the comet consisted of a mixture of gravitating and levitating matter,
and is analysed by the sun, then before the emission of the tail the
acceleration due to gravitation should be less than on a planet at the same
distance; the more complete the discharge of tail the greater the intensity
of gravitation on the remaining head.
N.B.-To understand the dynamics of the tail, the motion in space of
particular portions of it must be studied.
[293]
~~James Clerk Maxwell, The Life of, p. 339-340 (1882)
2 The same light which enlighteneth your eyes quickeneth your
understandings, saith the Lord, and is the law by which all things are
governed, and which, saith the Lord, changeth not, but remains constant,
that ye may have a standard by which to judge truth, and which constant is
called the law of light.
3 And it is that science, saith the Lord, which abrogates or does away with
the basis of true science, or, saith the Lord, that which is known as
physics and mathematics, which are my statutes, or the laws by which the
planets as wheel upon their wings in the immensity of space, is it not
false?
Revelations of Jesus Christ 159:2-3
(Received by the Prophet Art Bulla.)
12 For the foundation of matter, is it not spirit, saith the Lord God?
13 And all things are spiritual in nature, even unto me, saith the Lord God
of Enoch and Moses.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 20:12-13
(Received by the One Mighty and Strong, Art Bulla.)
The dynamics of other varieties of space than our own requires very brief
notice indeed.
-Yours truly,
J. CLERK MAXWELL.
~~The Life of, p. 193 (1882)
116 And behold, this hath been done on other worlds which have been created
by the Power of the Most High and organized from the chaotic element.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 5:116
(Received by Art Bulla, Apostle of Jesus Christ.)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html
To summarize, when I was done with this, as a physicist I had gained
two things. One, I knew many different ways of formulating classical
electrodynamics, with many different mathematical forms. I got to know
how to express the subject every which way. Second, I had a point of view -
the overall space-time point of view - and a disrespect for the Hamiltonian
method of describing physics.
....
This completes the story of the development of the space-time view of
quantum electrodynamics. I wonder if anything can be learned from it.
I doubt it. ... The path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics was
useful for guessing at final expressions and at formulating the general
theory of electrodynamics in new ways - although, strictly it was not
absolutely necessary.
....
Originally, Maxwell filled space with idler wheels, and Faraday with fields
lines, but somehow the Maxwell equations themselves are pristine and
independent of the elaboration of words attempting a physical description.
The only true physical description is that describing the experimental
meaning of the quantities in the equation - or better, the way the equations
are to be used in describing experimental observations. This being the case
perhaps the best way to proceed is to try to guess equations, and disregard
physical models or descriptions.
~~Richard Feynman (who retrograded from the Light, in denial of reality.)
http://ivantic.apnoia.org/fizika/feynman/index.html
Feynman on Hawking
Several conversations that Feynman and I had involved the remarkable
abilities of other physicists. In one of these conversations, I remarked to
Feynman that I was impressed by Steven Hawking's ability to do path
integration in his head. Ahh, that's not so great, Feynman replied. It's
much more interesting to come up with the technique like I did, rather than
to be able to do the mechanics in your head. Feynman wasn't being
immodest, he was quite right. The true secret to genius is in creativity,
not in technical mechanics.
http://www.theinfidels.org/zunb-richardpfeynman.htm
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's
not why we do it."
"God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain
those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how
something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you
don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So
therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured
that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't
believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live
to a certain length of time -- life and death -- stuff like that. God is
always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I
don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have
been figured out."
~~Richard Feynman, 1965 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Journal of Discourses, Vol.13, Pg. 223, John Taylor, May 6, 1870:
It is vanity, puerility and weakness for men to attempt to gainsay the
designs of God, or to boast of their own intelligence. What do they know?
Why, they discovered awhile ago that there is such a thing as electricity.
Who made that electricity? Did man? Did he originate and place it among
the nature's forces? Did it proceed from the acumen of man's intelligence
and his expansive mind? No, it always existed, and the man who discovered
it--a little smarter than his fellows--only found out one of the laws of
nature that emanated from and originated with God.
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus of Physics,
Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
(Why is Maxwell's Theory so hard to understand?):
How did it happen that Maxwell's theory was so widely ignored? After all,
Maxwell was not like his contemporary Gregor Mendel, a monk working in an
obscure monastery garden in Bohemia. Maxwell was a famous professor,
director of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, a leading figure in the
British scientific community. As an indication of his high standing, he was
president of Section A (mathematical and physical sciences) of the British
Association for the Advancement of Science when the association held its
annual meeting at Liverpool in 1870. He gave a presidential address in
Liverpool which was published in volume 2 of the recently founded journal
"Nature". The style of his address shows us why his theory was not taken
seriously. One might have expected that he would take the opportunity
provided by the presidential platform to proclaim to the world the
importance of the discoveries that he had made five years earlier. He did
nothing of the kind. He was absurdly and infuriatingly modest.
[end of excerpt]
It is interesting that the following praise of Maxwell was penned by F.J.A.
Hort, the same partner in crime against Christ that labored with B.F.
Westcott to bring erroneous, anti-Tyndale, anti-KJV Bible translations to
the English-speaking world:
FROM PROF. F. J. A. HORT TO PROF. L. CAMPBELL.
Feb. 4, 1882.
....
Perhaps the most noteworthy of Maxwell's characteristics was his absolute
independence of mind, an independence unsullied by conceit or consciousness.
Preserved by his simplicity and humility from any fondness for barren
paradox, he endeavoured always to see things with his own eyes, without
regard to the points of view assumed on one side or another in ordinary
controversy: in a word, he was more free from "emotionalism " than any one
whom I have known. [419] The testimony of his unshaken faith to Christian
truth was, I venture to think, of exceptional value on account of his
freedom from the mental dualism often found in distinguished men who are
absorbed chiefly in physical inquiries. It would have been alien to his
whole nature to seclude any province of his beliefs from the free exercise
of whatever faculties he possessed; and in his eyes every subject had its
affinities with the rest of the universal truth. ... In mind, as in speech,
his veracity was thorough and resolute: he carried into every thought a
perfect fidelity to the divine proverb which hung beside yet more sacred
verses on the wall of his private room, "The lip of truth shall be
established for ever."
During Maxwell's last illness I had the privilege of enjoying two
conversations with him; and not long afterwards I put on paper a short and
desultory record of some of his words. These notes contain nothing that
might not with propriety be brought under other eyes, and therefore I
venture to quote them here. Most of what passed on these two occasions
presented nothing worthy of remark, unless it be the cheerful naturalness
with which Maxwell spoke on all the varied topics that happened to come up
before us. His thoughts had evidently been mainly taking a retrospective
direction; and every interest of life seemed to be hallowed and brightened
by the probable nearness of the Divine summons to a new form of existence.
....
"My interest is always in things rather than in persons. I cannot help
thinking about the immediate circumstances which have brought a thing to
pass, rather than about any will setting them in motion. What is done by
what is called myself is, I feel, done by something greater than myself in
me. My interest in things has always made me care much more for theology
than for anthropology; states of the will only puzzle me. I cannot ascribe
so much to a depraved will as some people do, though I do to a certain
extent believe in it. Much wrong-doing seems to be no more than not doing
the right thing; and that finite beings should fail in that does not seem to
need the supposition of a depraved will." On my saying that, though the
immediate cause of the miseries of the world is oftener folly than
wickedness, yet men's folly can frequently be traced back to past misdoing
on their part, he warmly assented, and then added in a different strain:
"They were foolish because they did not ask for wisdom,—not, of course,
absolute wisdom, but the wisdom needed for the moment.
"I have been thinking how very gently I have been always dealt with. I
have never had a violent shove in all ny life.
"The only desire which I can have is like David to serve my own
generation by the will of God, and then fall asleep.''
~~The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, by Campbell and Garnett, p. 201-203
(1882)
TO THE SAME. [i.e., to Campbell]
8 King's Parade, 9th Nov. 1851.
....
I believe, with the Westminster Divines and their predecessors
ad Infinitum that "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him
for ever."
~~James Clerk Maxwell, a brother of Art Bulla
http://www.sonnetsoftware.com/bio/maxbio.pdf
p. 87 (1882)
91 For true science and true religion, are they not the same things, O man?
92 For I the Lord God am the author of all truth, which cometh from me.
Revelations of Jesus Christ 3:91-92
(Received by Art Bulla, Messiah to Ephraim and Manasseh.)
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