My dearest poet, László Lator, died today. His first book of poems is one of my treasured books.

What have the philosophers come to since Plato, who considered mathematics so important that tradition has it that the entrance to his Academy was inscribed with the inscription "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter".

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Critical thoughts while listening to a lecture¹

Lest we think we are hearing something new and original about evil in the performance of the title. I can only repeat what I have already said several times about the philosophical approach, namely that, as a rule, a philosopher does not formulate new ideas about a concept - in this case, evil - based on our present-day knowledge, but they quote and interpret old great philosophers and religious teachings.

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¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nquX7Eo_piE

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On the possibility of antigravity

For some reason, I assume antigravity between matter and antimatter, so I check from time to time to see if there is a test that can confirm or disprove this. I have previously asked ChatGPT in the Chrome browser about this, but got no useful answer, because it just kept saying that, as far as we know, the properties of matter and antimatter are identical in all but charge, but gave no information about specific tests. Now I have done some more research and asked Bing about the gravitational behaviour of antimatter. He gave a very good answer, by which I mean he gave his source, so I could check his conclusions. Well, there was a problem with that conclusion, because the original source did not confirm the conclusion of the Bing AI, that there is no antigravity. The reference provided by the AI is based on a Nature article¹ promoted by the SYFY channel² in early 2022, a summary of which can be found in Hungarian on the iPon website as well. The article’s topic is the comparison of matter and antimatter, which is one of the key questions in physics at the moment, because there is no theoretical explanation for the "baryon asymmetry", i.e., the predominance of matter in the universe.

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¹ See: A 16-parts-per-trillion measurement of the antiproton-to-proton charge–mass ratio | Nature

² See: Bad Astronomy | Matter and antimatter are affected by gravity the same amount | SYFY WIRE

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Thoughts while listening to a podcast

In the evening, I started listening to the "Mindenségit!" podcast conversation with Balázs Stump-Bíró. Well, it wasn't a sleep-helping conversation about the end of the human world. I finished listening to the podcast while doing my chores this morning. SBB mentioned techno-optimists a lot. I think that both techno-optimists and Cassandras like SBB lack the knowledge that sees information as energy as much as classical energy, lack the wisdom that appears in a Hungarian proverb; that „Better by wisdom than by force”.

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An arm's length away from unified probability calculus

“In nature, all mysteries are solved by numbers.”
(Manó Beke)

Content
1. The Kolmogorov classical probability calculus
- Kolmogorov mathematics today
- The "future" of Kolmogorov mathematics
2. Complex probability, i.e. the probability calculus of QM
3. Hyperbolic probability, a new mathematics
4. Summary and conclusions
Appendix A - Kolmogorov axioms of probability calculus
Appendix B - Kolmogorov probabilities and set theory
Appendix C - Elementary properties of two-element numbers

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My encounter with Open AI artificial intelligence

„The real sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” (Albert Einstein)

As soon as the first news appeared that ChatGPT could be added as an extension to the Google Chrome browser, I took the chance, but the first attempts were poor. The chatbot had problems interpreting even the simplest question, so I stopped trying. Recently I read several positive reviews about ChatGPT - negative ones too, but that's natural - so I gave it another try and I'm very satisfied with the testing. I got a lot of good responses and one interesting erroneous response.

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From my Diary, 26 February 2023.

I'm reading Guido Tonelli's book "Genesis" and get annoyed. Again and again I am confronted with the fact that I hardly understand the interpretations of particle physics. For example, why do we talk about particles crawling in and out of a vacuum, which is nothing more than the "workings" of Einstein's discovery of E=mc², i.e. huge energies can be converted into mass and then mass can be dissipated back into energy?

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Critical reflections

„Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have each conducted groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based upon quantum information.”
(The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

Initially, I did not want to comment on the justifications for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, because I have written so many times about entanglement, Bell's inequalities, and the incompleteness of quantum physics, that I thought it unnecessary to repeat my observations. But if we are talking about interpretations of the Nobel Prize justifications with which I disagree, then it is not superfluous, but very necessary to repeat other interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM) a thousand times. My criticisms are not of the facts of QM, of the great works of those who have just been awarded the prize, but of their explanation.

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From my Diary, 07.11.2022.

A day or two ago I read philosophy of science before going to bed. Kampis's style is very interesting, if not easy to read, at least it is substantial and entertaining. However, his quotations are as unreliable as those of Peter Esterházy, who does not mark as a quotation what is an inaccurate recollection, while Kampis quotes, but sometimes wrongly or with dubious sources.

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