Geraint F. Lewis, Sydney Institute for Astronomy, Sydney, Australia

ArXiv (9): The Trouble with “Puddle Thinking”, 2021
Book(s): The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook, 2019; Where Did the Universe Come From? and Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos, 2021
Homepage(s): ADS-NASA, Sydney, Twitter, Wikipedia CV-PDF
YouTube video(s): Where Did The Universe Come From? With Prof. Geraint F. Lewis, 2021

Second email:  7 November 2022 at 5:14 PM (revised a little)

Dear Prof. Dr. Geraint F. Lewis:

I sent you a tweet, but whoever sees those tweets? I’ve been reading about your work and now I am reading your work! I’ll be capturing more from your 400 articles, especially those in ArXiv, but I’ll also peruse your books, especially The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook… just what I need!

We are a high school class of geometers who followed a base-2 path down inside the tetrahedron and its octahedron. In 45 steps going deeper and deeper inside, we passed the fermions; and, in another 67 steps, we were within the Planck base units. 

We decided for consistency to multiply the base units by 2, and in 112 jumps, we were back in the classroom and another 90 out to the current expansion and age of the universe. 

We thought it was pretty neat. Nobody else did. Well, Frank Wilczek and Freeman Dyson did until we got serious. Freeman died on us. Wilczek became a god! 

You might enjoy our little story: https://81018.com/home/
Our chart of 202 notations: https://81018.com/chart/
Our first study of it all: https://81018.com/stem/

I’ll start a page tonight, https://81018.com/geraint-lewis/. At my age, I need as many memory props as it takes! Thanks for all that you have done and all that you are doing. I think the magic of numbers and geometries and their functions will begin to flourish!

Best wishes,

Bruce

First Tweet: 2:25 PM · Nov 7, 2022 (revised)

Geraint F. Lewis, @Cosmic_Horizons @Sydney_Uni Go inside the tetrahedron (divide the edges by 2, connect new vertices) and in 45 steps you’ll be among the particles and in another 67 steps you’ll be at the Planck base units. Now multiply those Planck units by two over and over again, 202 times and you have the universe: https://81018.com A little math and geometry go a long way!

First email: 14 November 2018

Dear Prof. Dr. Geraint Lewis:

In the course of studying Plato’s forms, particularly observing how the tetrahedron perfectly encloses a “half-sized” tetrahedron in each of the four corners and an octahedron in the middle, and how the octahedron perfectly encloses six “half-sized” octahedrons in each corner and a tetrahedron in each of the eight faces, we got to thinking about Zeno. If we continued going within, how far could we go? Would we hit a wall, possibly defined by the Planck Length?

In 45 steps (on paper) we were in the size range of the proton. In 67 more steps, we were at the Planck Wall.

Idiosyncratic for sure and reminiscent of Kees Boeke’s 1957 work with base-10.

Of course, we then went the other direction, doubling the sizes; and within 90 steps, we were out to the edges of the universe. Some time later we added Planck Time and watched with amazement as the two tracked so well together. Then we added Planck Mass and Planck Charge and became overwhelmed with the information.

It made for some widely speculative thinking.
Our numbers are here: http://81018.com/chart/
Our little history is here: http://81018.com/home/
It’ll soon be seven years from the first wild-and-crazy days. Then, because we got no critical review, I pulled it back from the classroom.  It could be tainting our college-bound students. Most speculatively we see how each notation builds on each other.

Certainly less sophisticated than Langlands Programs (we are still trying to grasp that work), we were excited to find Neil Turok’s work —- http://81018.com/bbtheory/ where he says the universe is constantly starting.  In its special way, all Time appears to be Now and everything “imprints” on the universe.

The first 64 or so notations are below the thresholds of measurement and a wonderful area to consider the most speculative theories! Your thoughts and comments, discouragement or encouragement would be highly regarded and appreciated.

Kind thanks.

Most sincerely
Bruce

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