http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~chester
Last modified: February 2012




marvin chester's site

CONTENTS


DIVINE NEUTRALITY  This links to my BLOG. The faith on which science is built is this: that divine intervention does not exist. Science is founded on faith in divine neutrality.
PHYSICS AS SYMMETRY How symmetry, something we associate with the shape of objects, is connected to theories about the workings of the physical world.
MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF IDENTITY   Exposition on how Identity is encapsulated by group theory.
IS SYMMETRY IDENTITY?
Introductory Sections
 We examine the premise that symmetry is identity; that group theory - the abstract mathematical generalization of symmetry - encodes our experience of identification; that symmetry is so elemental that it coincides with the concept of identity itself.
WHAT QUANTUM MECHANICS SAYS Talk given at University of California, Santa Cruz to Lifelong Learners 2011
TECHNICAL FRAGMENTS Theorem of Lagrange
the Random Walk
Edge Detection: Lenz Recast
on GEOMETRIC ALGEBRA
THE ISOMORPHIC GROUPS D3, S3, and C3v
The CONCEPT EXCHANGE SOCIETYProceedings include presentations on astronomy, cosmology, mysticism, information theory, spiritual values, linguistics, physics ...
A PRINCIPLE GOVERNING LIVING ORGANISMSThe effect, on the environment, of population success is to alter that environment in a way that opposes the success. This principle is formulated mathematically so it can be empirically tested
TWO HEADED TALESMarvin's words, Elfi's pictures.
Visually embellished verse pieces
BALANCE SHEET MONEYA Motion Diagram Exploration on Money.
THE GINI INDEXThe visualization of wealth distribution and the Gini Index.
ESSAYS and STORIES BIANNUAL CLOCK RESET RITUAL We penalize ourselves by mindless ritualistic behavior benefitting no one.  2004
KING of the PICKPOCKETSShort story, 1983
NATURALOn divine intervention and natural process; a short conversation 1996
ORIGIN of the MIRACULOUSPoem, 1998
BENEDICTIONThe blessing of belief. 2004
KOSOVOAn example of the natural selection of values.  1999
PEACE and JUSTICEWe assign the label 'justice' to 'what-it-is-we-want.'   1998
on REVELATIONRevelation and natural cause.  1999

My interests:
The operation of natural process in all spheres of inquiry:
at the foundations of physics,
in the evolution of species,
in the epidemiology of ideas,
in the bondage of passion,
in social transactions,
in the tumult of economics.
LINKS to my interests  Link collections, reference collections and site favorites

Biographical Synopsis: Marvin Chester

http://chesters.org Chester Family Site

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February 2012
email
chester(AT)physics(dot)ucla(dot)edu

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