TO: Katherine Freese, Professor of Physics, UT at Austin, Austin, Texas
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your interviews, especially In Search of Dark Stars, an interview in Quanta Magazine (July 2014); and the James Webb Telescope Catches Glimpse of Possible First-Ever ‘Dark Stars’, (UT News, 2023), and articles by you especially in ArXiv (176): Natural Inflation – Consistency with CMB Observations, (27 Sep 2004); your books especially The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter (2014); and your homepage including Big Think (2010), Google Scholar, Univ.Michigan, inSpireHEP, X (tweets), Wikipedia and YouTube especially:The Dark Side of the Universe (2016); More mysteries in the Universe? (2023)
References to her work within this website: This page – https://81018.com/2017/08/30/freese/
• Homepage: New Inflaton, Natural inflation (February 2023)
• The structure is the same. The particulars are different. (January 2020)
• Nobel Laureates Asked Key Questions (August 2019)
• From the simplicity of pi to the complexity of E8 (April 2019)
• Could this model of the universe work? (February, 2019)
• Attitudes, beliefs, and conceptual frameworks (July 27, 2018)
• Dark Matter & Dark Energy: Not Dark (October 2018)
Fourth email: 10 October 2023 @ 5 PM
Dear Prof. Dr. Katherine Freese:
I am looking around the web for any of your latest writings about a natural inflation and the results of the JWST’s deep challenge to big bang cosmology and the Lambda CDM model. I have been exploring the New Scientist three articles from their September 6th issue. My first look is at Jon Butterworth and smashing physics.
Might you be working on an article that explores the JWST results in light of big bang cosmology and the Lambda CDM model?
I assume that we will be entering a new interpretation of “…after the big bang.” I believe your 2004 work with Will Kinney about natural inflation has important key ideas to explore independent of big bang cosmology. Thank you.
Warmly,
Bruce
PS. In a note to Fabiola Gianotti and Jon Butterworth, I mentioned that work with Will Kinney on a natural inflation. I think there will be quite a few more citations as this all heats up. -BEC
References: https://81018.com/2017/08/30/freese/#Fourth and https://81018.com/butterworth/#Emails
Third email: 25 February 2023
Dear Prof. Dr. Katherine Freese:
With all your work, travel, and teaching over the past four years, you surely do not need more email. However, I thought you might like to see the two references to your work within our current homepage. It is receiving a fair amount of traffic. The URL for the page is https://81018.com/inflaton/ and the references are: https://81018.com/inflaton/#Freese and https://81018.com/inflaton/#4z. Thank you.
Warmly,
Bruce
Second email: Friday, February 1, 2019
Dear Prof. Dr. Katherine Freese:
Back in August 2017, I sent a heartfelt note of thanks for your work and observed how our application of base-2 or doublings starts at the Planck scale and goes to the age of the universe in just 202 notations. We have not had any scholars truly advise us how this logic could be failing us. This natural inflation appears to mimic the epochs defined within the Standard Model of Cosmology.
Would you please advise us? What is our most egregious error of logic?
Thank you.
-Bruce.
First email: Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:22 AM
Dear Prof. Dr. Katherine Freese:
You are an extraordinary scholar. So very inspiring. I am not a scholar, yet I have backed into a study of natural inflation and have discovered your prodigious work.
I have entered this domain with the intention of trying to understand the work of Alan Guth and Andrei Linde. I have mostly chosen those ArXiv articles where you are either the author or among no more than three authors. Of all the other entries, a few titles attract my attention and also give me opportunities to learn about the associations of scholars, especially with those whose work I have previously engaged.
I am like an English major who walks into your office having been caught by an article posted on your hallway bulletin board and who asks the ever-so naive question, “How natural is a natural inflation?”
Have you ever considered a very naive model of the universe that uses base-2 notation from the Planck units? We started that process in 2011. It is a little like the base-10 work by Kees Boeke, just a bit more granular, engages the Planck units, assumes inherent geometries and scaling vertices (after all, this work started in a high school geometry class), and uses the Age of the Universe as an approximate end point. It defines a very different approach to natural inflation following the Planck Charge.
Given the depth and breadth of current scholarship, is our little model so naive that it wastes your time even to respond? Of course, I hope not. Perhaps we need to break it into several articles.
Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
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