TO: Tim W.E. Maudlin, NYU Department of Philosophy, New York, NY
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: The articles about you: The calibrated cosmos by Tim Maudlin, Aeon, (12 Nov 2013); In Defense of the Reality of Time (about Maudlin by George Musser); What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology, Ross Andersen, Atlantic Monthly, January 2012); ArXiv: What Bell Did (and others); your books: Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (2011, Blackwell) and Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time (2012); and your homepage(s), also CV, Wikipedia, YouTube: Big Bang, Cosmology, Theology and Meaning and many more.
First email – 16 October 2016 and URL for this page: https://81018.com/2016/10/10/maudlin/
Fourth email: 29 October 2025. (updated)
Dear Tim:
Looking at the scope of all the disagreements in the world — https://81018.com/ — might AI become the arbiter, the penultimate consensus builder? <ight AI become “the way and the truth” that we can know.
Our page about your work is here: https://81018.com/2016/10/10/maudlin/
Be well,
Bruce
PS. There were recent visitors to this page so I’ve updated it. -BEC
Third email: 6 January 2024 (updated)
Dear Tim:
Well, you started to drain the eschatological swamp!
Yet, what if you asked, “Do any of our observable features of physical universe contribute to natural theology?” and the response had been, “Yes, pi (π). Continuity is redefined. A finite-infinite connection is made.”
Might you ask, “Does it have any moral properties?” Again, somewhat of a left turn, the answer is:
“Yes, pi (π) creates symmetries and harmonies.” The world and our universe is like that.
Now as the sphere is an artifact of pi (π), allegedly our oldest, most-studied, most-commonly applied, scale-invariant thing, perhaps those Planck base units are actually an approximation of the first constants. Perhaps that infinitesimal sphere is generated, one per unit of Planck length and Planck time. If so, might we have a cosmological constant of 18.5 tredecillion spheres per second?
Might that answer a few long-standing, unanswered questions? If I hadn’t seen the video, I wouldn’t have believed it! Tim Maudlin at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary!
You were gracious and seemingly untractable! Without laying on of hands, I know they were praying for you!
Warmly,
Bruce
Second email: 23 May 2023 at 6:45 PM
References: Einstein didn’t think time was an illusion, Maudlin, Institute of Art & Ideas (IAI), 28th November 2022
Hi Tim:
Is it fair to say that there are 26 faces of time? https://81018.com/the-firsts/#Table
I know there is a reluctance to open uninvited links, so I’ll copy that list just below.
Best wishes,
Bruce
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Bruce E. Camber
https://81018.com
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| 1. The Now –202 | 8. Day –160 | 15. Picosecond – 104 | Informal, unofficial |
| 2. Billion – 199 | 9. Hour–155 | 16. Femtosecond – 94 | 22. Mecosecond – 34 |
| 3. Million – 189 | 10. Minute – 150 | 17. Attosecond –84 | 23. Duecosecond – 25 |
| 4. Thousand –179 | 11. Second – 144 | 18. Zeptosecond –74 | 24. Trecosecond –15 |
| 5. Year – 169 | 12. Millisecond – 134 | 19. Yoctosecond – 64 | 25. Tetrecosecond– 5 |
| 6. Month –165 | 13. Microsecond – 124 | 20. Rontosecond-54 | SI Certified (BIPM): |
| 7. Week –163 | 14. Nanosecond-114 | 21. Quectosecond – 44 | 26. PlanckTime – 0 |
First email: Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:11 PM Updated: 20 Feb 2018
Dear Prof. Dr. Tim Maudlin:
If a relatively-simple, mathematically-predictive model of the universe were to emerge, shouldn’t it either be beaten down or lifted up? By using base-2 notation from the Planck scale, a model is rendered. Even though it came out of the naïveté of a high school geometry class, it appears to have some possibilities.
Would you have a quick look at a large horizontally-scrolled page with 202 columns. You can easily scroll (horizontally) the four Planck base units from their so-called singularity to the current Age of the Universe: https://81018.com/chart/
Does it have any potential? Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
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Bruce E. Camber
More references to your work:
Tim Maudlin in action at #NightOfPhilosophy
Apr 24, 2015 – Massimo Pigliucci · @mpigliucci. Professor of Philosophy at City College. Philosophy of science & pseudoscience, Stoicism as a philosophy of life.
- Maudlin, Tim, 1989, “The Essence of Spacetime,” in A. Fine and J. Leplin (eds.), PSA 1988, Volume 2, pp. 82–91.
- –––, 1990, “Substances and Spacetimes: What Aristotle Would have Said to Einstein,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 21: 531–61.
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