TO: Michio Kaku, City College of New York, NYC, NY 10031
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your entries in ArXiv; your many books particularly The Future of the Mind; and also your homepage(s) within Big Think, particularly The Universe as a Symphony, CCNY, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia
Third email: 6 July 2023 at 1:08 PM
Dear Prof. Dr. Michio Kaku:
You have such a following, I think others are using your name erroneously. Yet, we’re all becoming more sophisticated consumers of the web’s information. Eventually, AI will push the abusers back into the weeds and their pages will rarely be found. I am cleaning up a page of references I have about your work along with my prior messages and emails: https://81018.com/2017/08/31/kaku/
As a person who was first able to visualize infinitesimally small strings, can we place them at the Planck scale? I think so. I think we can place them right inside the never-ending, never-repeating numbers of π (pi) which I believe also define the finite-infinite divide. Now, that’s a stretch!
Thank you for all that you do, for being so bold and so willing to risk!
Warmly,
Bruce
PS. You might enjoy this reference to Cumrun Vafa’s comment about the Planck scale on the homepage today: https://81018.com/penultimate-revolution/#Vafa I wish you the best. -BEC
Tweet: 20 January 2018
@michiokaku Do you affirm Newton’s absolute space and time? I would enjoy hearing your comments!
Second email: May 31, 2017
Co-founder of Field String Theory explains why the universe has 11 dimensions https://sumo.ly/A1dO via @bigthink
Dear Prof. Dr. Michio Kaku:
Does M-Theory jive with big bang cosmology? Or, better yet, could it be harmonized within a simple quiet expansion? Couldn’t the universe have started a bit more simply, i.e. from the Planck units by engaging base-2 exponentiation, expanding rather quietly to the first second at notation #143 then rumbling on out to the Age of the Universe within the 202nd notation? Reference: https://81018.com/chart/
All of human history is within that last notation. It is simple, sweetly naive, yet rather compelling. What do you think?
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Bruce
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Bruce Camber
http://81018.com
First email: Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 5:27 PM
References: https://twitter.com/michiokaku https://mkaku.org/ where you ask, “Who invented the transistor? Who invented the laser? Who invented the computer ..the television? Who invented the robot? Who invented the nanotube?”
Thank you, Prof. Dr. Michio Kaku:
I have been listening to your May 11, 2017 YouTube analysis of the Donald Trump phenomenon. Is this the best two parties with deep pockets could do? It seems that we need a very-deep analysis of our television culture, liars-cheaters, and the lack of clear thinking.
Yet, we are where we are; and, we have to make the best of it.
While Arkani-Hamed wants to denigrate space-and-time, and Tegmark wants to throw out infinity, perhaps we should go way back to the Leibniz-Clarke (Newton) debate as a place to start. If infinity is defined as continuity and symmetry and space and time are derivative, we have the same universe, but a radically different way to approach it: https://81018.com/foundations/
If we take Max Planck’s base units and apply base-2 notation, in just over 202 notations we have the Age of the Universe at the Now (according to Richard A. Muller). Of course, Carlo Rovelli has a bit different take on it.
Those 202+ notations are here: https://81018.com/chart/
If this little chart is an accurate description of the universe, it may be more simple than we think. That chart has been used among 6th graders and came out of a New Orleans high school geometry class.
Here, a simple logic tells me, it just may be the anticipated simplicity that Wheeler had intuited when he said, “Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it — in a decade, a century, or a millennium – we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?” https://81018.com/simple/
If all people are liberated from concepts that cloud and truncate our thinking, what a revolution that might be. If our concepts are clouded, our creativity is truncated as well. Perhaps, we are all little Einsteins and Edison’s waiting to be liberated from the tightness of Newton and the silliness of big bang cosmology.
Your comments? Of course, I know it is idiosyncratic which of course does not speak well for me!
Thanks.
Warmly,
Bruce