TO: Harry Swinney, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, Physics Department, University of Texas– Austin
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your work in ArXiv, your CV (PDF), your Hands on program, even your homepage, including your Wikipedia summary, and your YouTube: Universality in Nature:  2015 MIT C.C. Mei Distinguished Lecture

Second email: 13 June 2023 at 2:40 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Harry Swinney:

Would you consider signing a simple petition (message) to our learned societies around the world? We will start from the most active groups and work into the smaller groups until most every country has been sent that petition. Thank you, Harry. Warmly, Bruce

PS. My page about your work and with my first email from January and April 2018 is here: https://81018.com/2018/01/11/swinney/ Thank you.

Warm regards,

Bruce

First email: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Resent: April 18, 2018

Dear Prof. Dr. Harry Swinney:

Your work within the foundations of physics, especially in light of John Wheeler’s earlier work at UT, is encouraging. https://history.aip.org/phn/11610002.html

Your Wikipedia overview is remarkable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Swinney

The Hands On Schools program is gracious and giving. Your work with the Saturday program for high school teachers is most encouraging. Your work with the Wednesday evening lectures brings me back to my hometown of Boston, and the evening lectures of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

I hope you will might advise me so I might advise our high school teachers and students.

We are new to the Austin area, having moved into Round Rock just months ago.

I worked on my PhD at Boston University (1975-1980). I frustrated the best of my faculty. People like Abner Shimony and Bob Cohen, and the likes of people like David Bohm and John-Pierre Vigier who all tried to keep me on track. I was too Leibnizian and couldn’t buy into absolute space and time vis-a-vis Newton:  http://81018.com/foundations/

In 1980 I returned to work within a business that I started earlier. Yet, in the back of my mind, I expected at some time to return to that earlier academic work from 1973 to 1980.

In 2011 a nephew invited me to help him with his high school geometry classes. We explored embedded geometries (tetrahedron and octahedron). From our classroom model down to the CERN-scale, there were just 45 steps, dividing each edge by 2 and connecting the new vertices. In another 67 steps, we were down into the Planck-scale: http://81018.com/home  To try to be more consistent, we turned around and multiplied the Planck Length by 2, over and over and over again. In just 112 doublings we were back up to our original objects and then we went to the observable universe in another 90 doublings.

A picture of the universe in 202 doublings from the smallest to the largest measurements of space and time emerged. Of course, the math is simple; understanding the chart is not.

I certainly could use some help to debunk our chart of numbers so we all can grasp the failure of this logic, or understand it in a new way and organize it more systemically in light of today’s scholarship  — http://81018.com/chart/

I would highly regard any insights that you have.
Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce
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