Jeremy Nicholas Butterfield
Affiliate of Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations (DAMTP)
University of Cambridge, Trinity College
Cambridge, England

ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01505 On Dualities and Equivalences
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4745 On Time in Quantum Physics
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4354
• Reduction, Emergence and Renormalization
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4348 Our Mathematical Universe?
Homepage(s): Natural Environment Research Council, PhilPeople, ResearchGate.
Publications
Talks at University of Cambridge
YouTube:  What Exists? (2017), Observations (2017), Contextuality (2017)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield)

Within this website:
This page:https://81018.com/2019/02/17/butterfield/
FQXi member: https://81018.com/fqxi/#Butterfield
Almost there: https://81018.com/almost/#Butterfield

Most recent email: Monday, December 13, 2021, 10:38 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Jeremy Nicholas (Nick) Butterfield:

On my bookshelves and sometimes on my desk since 1973, I have had Herbert Butterfield’s The Origins of Modern Science. It’s been in and out of dozens upon dozens of boxes for the many, many moves. He has become like kinfolk. Then I began to  wonder, “Is he Nick’s actual kinfolk?” …uncle, grandfather, father? I wonder, is he?

I continue working that base-2 model from the Planck units. My latest iteration is here: https://81018.com/almost If you might comment, I would be eternally grateful. Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

Second email: Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 10:18 AM

Primary reference: http://www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk/node/1

Dear Prof. Dr. Jeremy Nicholas Butterfield:

Such scholarship. Thank you for all your very substantial work.
As for me, I am barely swimming and often drowning in information overload.

In 2011, with about 90 high school geometry students, we engaged
the Planck scale primarily by unwittingly mapping the universe,
simulating base-2 (versus Boeke’s base-10) by going inside
the tetrahedron by dividing its edges by 2, connecting those new
vertices until in 45 steps we were at about the measurements of
lengths within particle physics. In another 67 steps we were looking
up at Planck’s scale, a wall if you will. Then we multiplied by 2 until
we were out to the approximate age of the universe. We had a total
of just 202.34 notations. References: https://81018.com/home and
https://81018.com/2012/06/14/kolecki/

Not being the brightest lightbulbs to illuminate the spheres, in 2014,
we finally added Planck Time and in 2016 added the other two base units:
Reference: https://81018.com/chart/

Before I make more of a fool of myself than I already have,
would you take a look at this page — https://81018.com/transformation/ –
which is slated to become the homepage tomorrow.

Might you give me quick advice? Too idiosyncratic for words?
Just silliness? I thank you.

Most sincerely,
-Bruce

First email: Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 9:30 AM

Primary reference: http://www.qi.damtp.cam.ac.uk/node/19

Dear Prof. Dr. Jeremy Butterfield,

My Google Scholar alerts for new citations about George Ellis includes
two references (ArXiv and the PhilSci PDF) to your review of Sabine
Hossenfelder’s Lost in Math.

There are in fact a lot of bad ideas. There is a dearth of simple ideas
that postulate very simple foundations. In 2011 a geometry class in
New Orleans (USA) we went inside the tetrahedron and the octahedrons
within it by dividing the edges by two and connecting those new vertices.
A simple Zeno-like exercise, we also were learning a little about base-2
and then the Planck base units of time, length, mass and charge. It was
surprising to go just 45 steps to the particle physics domain and 67 more steps
into Planck’s scale. When we multiplied by 2, we were out to the size and
age of the universe in just another 90 steps. 202 to encapsulate the universe.

But, so what? Is it just a bunch of numbers? We looked around for a bit and
discovered only Kees Boeke’s base-10. At least some other high school
people had ventured out of the textbook!

The first 64-to-67 notations puzzled us. Well before any possibility of any
measurement by instrumentation, it caused us to look more closely at what
it was defining. The first second comes out between notation 143 and 144.
The first year at notation 169. The large scale universe comes out between
195 and 197. This chart was based on doublings, started at the Planck base
units, and seems to demand that every type of doubling be investigated. We
have gladly learned about bifurcation theory, cubic-close packing, and more.

We always seem to find our way back to DAMTP. But, you are at the most
beautiful, legendary, Trinity College! It seems we’ve got to wrestle with Newton
and Hawking much more than we had ever anticipated. Oh, that question about
renormalization and infinity is ever so present!

What do you make of our simple approach? …simpletons?

We really would appreciate some hard-hitting logic to smack us back into
reality!

Can I politely yell out, “Help! We’re drowning in details!” Thanks.

Warmly,.

-Bruce

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