Getting rid of Corruption

We use criminal punisment as a tool to get rid of corruption. Is it successful? No. Why? We criminalise corruption. And take crimial action on corruption. But we rarely take penal action that is civil action, we almost ignore it. There is a drawback in criminal action. To penalise someone by crimal action, we need to proove, beyond resonable doubt that person is responsible to the action. This is difficult, unlike when some physical harm is done to another, collecting evedence is difficult. Usually harming someone is not well planed. It is not difficult to find evidence and charge that person. Then murder can be well planed. But in murder, the method of finding the culprit is improved over the years and it is posible to find the culprits and punish them.

Fraud against a person, if the fraud is big, that person takes action. Usually if the fraud is big, the victim has substancial means to take legal action.

But problems arise when fruaud is aginst sociaty. In wealthy sociaties, better methods exist to find and punish culprits. In poorer sociaties corruption is widespread. These fraudsters plan these frauds in such a way it is difficult to catch them and punish them. Because to prove criminal action you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt. These legal action takes long time. The accuses need to be given fair chance to prove their inocence. You cannot apply balance of probabilities to prove tha action. Therefore frauds flarish. The world has become a heven to the fraudsters.

I have a suggesion. Criminal action need, beyond resonable doubt, because the violaters certain rights are curtail as punishent. Incarsaration by sending him to prison or a detention centre. Finacial penalties, where the accused has to depart from his wealth. These are very hard on a person and the sociaty has to be very sure that he commited to action.

What if we have lesser penalties and use balance of probabilites, as criteria to punish frauds against sociaty. These penalties can affect only the social contract by a person to the sociaty. Removal of civic rights. Usually current meaning of voting rights, government services, public education etc. We can redesign this in such a way that the affected person can live a nomal life, He can buy thigs from shops, he can rent or buy a house to live. Usually these high corrupters have enough wealth to sustain them. The criminal system take the same action for a pety bribe, to a trafic violation by a policeman who take the bribe because he do not have enough income from his salary. And a politicial who take bribes to give govenment contract.

We can use penalties like: no passport will be issued and the one issued is canceled. No national identity card. No bank accounts. No electricity, no water service ( he will have to use someone elses name to get these services. The idea is not to bar a person from useing lectricity, but he cannot buy these in his name). No mobile telephone issued in his name. These are some, there will be other benifits accured by teh preson from the sociaty, that can be curtailed.

These need not be life time bans, but limited to number of months or years depending the sevearity of the corruption.

Also the legal action should be swift, or its usefulness will be nulified in the end. This can be compared to Taxation Authorities. Since their action is swift, people are more scared to taxman than a policeman. That is people who has wealth.

These corruptors very scrupilious persons, and very resourseful ones, therefor whatever action it will be difficult to curtail them. But this will be a more efficient tool than crimial procedings.

Nweton's First Law of motion

Newtons first law of motion (law of inertia) states that an object in motion stays in motion at the same speed and direction until some outside action (a force) acted upon it.

What if this is a human construct. Not fully but partially. Say there is motion. Motion is a fundermental entity of the universe(I do have doubts about even this. Since all motion is relative. Special Relativity and Micheson Morely experiment.

We humans add to the basic concept of motion "regulated motion".  One cardinal entity related to this regulated motion, is the observer. Without an observer such motion cannot happen. Or rather we don't know of such a motion existed without an observer. Appel fell down form a tree. At one moment it was hanging from the tree and the next moment it is on the floor. The observer observe that it falls in a straight line to the floor. At all stages of the downward journey of the appel from the tree branch to the floor, it emits photons, these are captured by the eye and come to the conclusion that it traveled inn a straight line.

There can be whole lot of other event like this. This is very similar to events of time.

12.10.2018
According to quantum theory particles don't move is straight lines. So we humans have constructed the first law. It is not a pure physical thing.

SPIN

What is spin? And how is it possible
Spin and events. What is the relation.
How do you know that something is spinning.
What quantum theory says about spin.

100% symmetrical object cannot spin. Because how it is possible for an observer to know that it is spinning?it might have other qualities butnot spin. Consider the two cases, as spinning ball with a polished surface and another like a golf ball that have identical dimples. An observer may not know that the polished ball is spinning, but will know that the ball with dimples spin. How does he know that.   He will see light reflected by dimples, changing and will come to the conclusion that the ball is spinning.

How Competitive Exams Erode Knowledge

BYSri Lanka is a good example. Everyone accept that reduction of knowledge has taken place from work earlier times.

There is no private knowledge. Wittgenstein, philosophical investigations.

Competitive Exams leads competitors guard whatever they have learned to gain advantage from other competitors. So, it it's not the competition that is the problem but the attitude of the competitors. But this attitude is a natural result, when there is a competition.

So it is not the fault of the competitors, but the ones who use competition as a means of delivering a reward. Reward like a job, place in a good school, entrance to university. You can contrast these with a normal minority reward. Earlier mentioned rewards are important for the future in the individual, it is a life changing reward, not like getting some money.

A society should change this system. Especially in Sri Lanka this is the case.

06.10.2018
Sri Lanka has many problems, everyone knows it. One is education. Starting from grade 5 scholarship to selecting medical undergraduates by competitive A/L exam. This may be one of the reasons of deterioration of the society not open economy. This using competitive exams to judge intelligence is wrong.  Though it is one method it is not the only method. Competition destroys collective knowledge. Knowledge is something that results from collective thinking. This may be the reason why having high literacy rate for more then 50 years, other countries that didn't have it has surpassed us in intelligence.

07.10.2018
corruption was there in other societies you can see in films and stories in England and US there was corruption. The managed to get out of it. Even though there is corruption in their systems, systems would run smoothly. For us this always. The other way around . Why is it?

World events and flow of time

The time is an entity created by man. The confution about time arises when one thinks it is completely real or completely an ellusion. The concept of time is two fold. On one hand it has the concept of time passing (this part is man made), on the other hand it connects all worldly events(world events are real not man made).

Another importnat concept is that nothing happens simultaniously. It may be correct to say two causal events happen simultaniously. But that happens with distance apart cannot happen simultaniously, simply because there is no emphical method of proving some such thing happens simaultaniously.

Take the set of event asteroid striking earth that killed all dinosars and atom bomb hittng Hiroshima. These are two distinct events and happened some time apart. emperically we know lot of other events happened in between. What I say that part is human. That is "lot of other events happened in between". We use other connected events and everything is like a tree structure. So what is the difference between to causal evnets, and these two historical events. The two causal events, one event control the other. But the historical events looks independent.

World events consists of and independent events.
Causal events, though we think are related, it cannot be logically proved to be related. Therefore it is also independent. It's dependency was created by us. Dinasors lived long ago and not yesterday, is made up by human mind.

08.10.2018
TIME has three distinct qualities.
One, flow. Example ageing of a person, how events of his life flow. What time it takes to do some task.
Two, repetition. Oscillator, vibration. Without it time cannot be measured.
Three, counter. Without a counter time cannot be measured.

Particles and Waves

What is the difference between a particle and a wave?
Particles have identity. You can name a particle. It is like a person having a cristian name. Say there are identical twins, but each will have a different name, we treat each as a seprate person. You see the difference of a particle and a wave, only when you try to observe it. When you observer a particle you observe it all the way. When it moves you watch it's path continously. The wave you can't do it. In a wave you see the starting point and end point only. You can name a particle, since you observe it all the way in it's movement you know that it is the same thing that moves. What you had in position A is the same when it moves to position B. We watch it all the way. It is causal or localised not logical. But when a photon moves we cannot watch it all the way. We use logic to identify it as the same photon imited. We do it logically. We prevent any other photon to enter in to that space. Then we know what arrived is the one that was emited. It is like sending a ball in a opaque tube. We see the ball entering the tube, then we see the ball coming out of the tube. How do we know it is the same ball? logically. It is not causal. We know no other ball entered, so we know what came out is the same ball that entered the tube.

Understand this and it will solve lot of current problems in physics. The observer effect, "the moon is shining even when we don't look at it" - Einstein. Seeing the moon is logical. Seeing a table in front of me is causal. I touch the table on top of seeing it and get the feeling that it is real and not an illusion.

Identity of a particle in quantum physics

Philosophical Investigations-Wittgenstein, para 215. But isn't the same at least the same?
We seem to have an infallible paradigm of identity in the identity of a thing with itself. I feel like saying" here at any rate there can't be variety  of interpretations. If you are seeing a thing you are seeing identity too."
Then two things on the same when they are what one thing is? And how am I to apply what the one thing shews me the case of two things?

Take the case of single electron going threw two slits, how do we know it is the same electron the emitter emitted that strikes the detector? Our intuition, we emitted a single electron, we design the experiment so that outside electrons can't come in, like when you roll a marble in a opaque tube, you expect the same to come out. There's another way of doing it like watching the marble move through a transparent tube. Here you watch the marble move. The identity of the marble is fixed and not changing. There is a difference between the two methods.
In the first method identity is fixed, and in the second method the identity is vague, but we use our intuition to get the identity.

A particle behaves like a particle when the identity is fixed and it behaves like a wave when we use intuition to identity the particle.

When identity is fixed we know that the same particle moves. And in the other case, it is the negativity, like "this cannot be any other, therefore it is the same particle", we use logic to make the identification. The other case it is physical, you can touch and see the particle all the way.

In the second case an observer is present, whereas in the first case observer is absent.