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The BCSCMsG New Era Study of the fundamental nilpotent foundations of computation, quantum physics & mathematics.

The British Computer Society Cybernetic Machine specialist Group future programme is to be entirely devoted to this New Era study. This decision follows from the key discovery by Rowlands and Diaz of the nilpotent computational rewrite system that bootstraps itself into existence from zero (and supporting evidence resulting from past annual programmes over the last five to ten years). It lays a new fundamental semantic foundation for computation, mathematics & quantum physics, as originally mooted by John Wheeler of Princeton in his concepts 'the Meaning Circuit' & 'Physical Law without law', putting flesh on their bones. This flesh specifies a quantum cosmology & cosmological evolution in terms of the thermodynamic quantum Carnot Engine, i.e. a quantum measurement process where the required Clifford/fermionic and Lie /bosonic representations of its nilpotent quantum mechanical state space are described by the nilpotent generalization of Dirac's famous equation discovered by Rowslands & Cullerne, and quantum holography defined by the 3D nilpotent Heisenberg Lie Group as discovered by Schempp, respectively. In particular, the fundamental symmetry breaking of the empty set of this state space provides a scientific explanation of how Standard Model elementary particle matter & 3+1 space-time both simultaneously come into existence. The central thrust of the New Era study is therefore to further confirm that the nilpotent rewrite system is the unique master key to the Universe's virgin birth and its further evolution including life, where RNA/DNA is also such a nilpotent rewrite system.

To oversee this New Era Study programme, there is be an executive study committee composed, in alphabetical order, of Ernst Binz, Steve Cumbers, Bernard Diaz, Mike Horner, Peter Marcer, Edgar Mitchell, Peter Rowlands & Walter Schempp. Its function will be to offer advice and criticism during the Study,

This notice is also a call for papers in the first major event in the New Era Study

FInal Call for Papers *
5th BCSCMsG International Symposium
The Fundamental Semantic Foundations of the Sciences
Computational Rewrite Systems

Invited Speakers, Peter Rowlands & Bernard Diaz, Liverpool University
Symposium Invited Speaker, Professor Walter Schempp, Siegen University
Conference Invited Speaker, Professor John Conway FRS, Princeton University
Invited Speaker, Professor Brian Josephson FRS, Cambridge University

in Liege, Belgium as part of CASYS 2005
The 7th International Conference
On Computing Anticipatory Systems
August 8-13th, 2005
Conference Invited Speaker, Professor M.J. Feigenbaum, Rockefeller University

Organized by CHAOS asbl
Director and President: Dr Ir Daniel Dubois
Symposium Organizer: Peter Marcer

*Papers published in an American Institute of Physics Proceedings or
the International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems
An abstract volume issued to all delegates at registration


The Inauguration in 2005 of a New Era Study Programme begins from the remarkable discovery in 2003 by Diaz & Rowlands of a nilpotent rewrite system for universal quantum computation That is to say, this discovery specifies a fundamental semantic foundation & universal grammar for quantum computation that also describes quantum physics, so as to determine Nature's rules or 'machine order code' (i.e. that of the nilpotent generalization (1) below of Dirac's famous equation) for what is quantum physically meaningful in computation & physics, and it can be hypothesized all the sciences! For example, the current evidence points to the fact that the RNA/DNA genetic code is such a nilpotent computational rewrite system.


where E, p, m, t and r are respectively energy, momentum, mass, time, space and the symbols ±1, ±i, ±i, ±j, ±k, ±i, ±j, ±k, are used to represent the respective units required by the scalar, pseudo-scalar, quaternion and multivariate vector groups.
In particular, the sum total of 3+1 space-time & complementary Standard Model elementary particle matter resulting from the symmetry breaking (1) specifies, is nilpotent and must remain zero. That is, this nilpotent emergence constitutes a global Source/ White (W)Hole which must be matched with a global disappearance at a set of secondary local sinks or black holes (Huygens' principle) plus a corresponding thermo-dynamic increase in the entropy of the total system as an information metric & historical record (in accordance with the system's endless evolution as a Quantum Carnot Engine). Thus specifying, it can be hypothesized, a Quantum Cosmology of Everything from Nothing.


Peter Marcer, chairman BCSCMsG. 23/12/2004
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