Sylvester James Gates, first MIT PhD on SUSY
Director, Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, Brown Theoretical Physics Center
340 Brook Street,  Providence, RI 02912formerly John S. Toll Professor, University of Maryland

Article: Why Theoretical Physicist Sylvester James Gates Sees No Conflict Between Science and Religion, Smithsonian Magazine, 2013
ArXiv (157): A Dynamical Theory for Massive Supergravity 2013
Great Course: Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality
Homepage(s): AIP, inSpire-HEP, MIT MLK, Twitter, Watson Institute, Wikipedia
Video: NOVA – PBS-TV The Uncertainty of Disbelief, Chrysalis Institute, September 27, 2014. what
• Perimeter Institute Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, YouTube: The Gift of Physics, APB, Oct 27, 2015
• Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory Dec 25, 2019; The Gift of Physics

Within this website: https://81018.com/2019/04/09/gates/ (this page) https://81018.com/conference/

Most recent (and fifth) email: 1 March 2024. (updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. Sylvester James Gates:

You have to admit that you are a rare person — one who allows for religious freedom, one who forges new insights at the most commanding levels within academia, and one who has no fear.

We met briefly on a visit in and around 1979 when you came over to Boston University for a visit. Even at that time, I was smitten with symmetry as part of the perfections within our universe. Yet, symmetry has to come from somewhere. It is so deeply ingrained within the fabric of the universe. Just about the time of my last note to you, I became emphatic and began saying things like, “Symmetry comes from the first (and most- abundant) sphere in the universe that is defined by the Planck base units, all natural units.” Of course, quantum physics raises questions. Yet, we know from our attempts to measure quantum fluctuations when we are at the limits of our instrumentation. With 202 base-2 notations from Planck Time to the current time, our instrumentation reaches no deeper than Notation-64. We intuit and creatively construct the nature and numbers that define things smaller.

Jonathan Bagger is now rather removed as the CEO of APS. Seiberg and so many others (Weinberg, Witten, Wilczek, ’t Hooft, Georgi, Dimopoulos, Ellis…) have already been cited*. With my heart for the work of people from MIT, I return to you. There is a link to this page from our current homepage: https://81018.com/reformat/#Gates

I think it is important to lift up your work and position within the supersymmetry family, so, we’re back. I hope you don’t mind. Thanks.

Warmly,

Bruce
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Bruce E. Camber
https://81018.com/bec/

PS. A very good listing of references was done by Stephen P. Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, 2016. Martin is in the Department of Physics of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb IL. His references go from page 145 to 160 (1-330). Many of the scholar-scientists whom we have connected are listed here: https://81018.com/alphabetical/ Thanks. -BEC

Fourth email: 17 June 2021 at 4:26 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Sylvester James Gates:

Warmly,

Bruce
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Bruce E. Camber
Austin, Boston, Winter Park
https://81018.com/bec/

PS. A very good listing of references was done by Stephen P. Martin, A Supersymmetry Primer, 2016. Martin

is in the Department of Physics of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb IL. His references go from page 145 to 160 (1-330). Many of the scholar-scientists whom we have connected are listed here: https://81018.com/alphabetical/ Thanks. -BEC

Third email: 10 May 2020 at 10 AM

Dear Prof. Dr. Sylvester James Gates:

In the depths of every family’s history, we’ve all looked north at the south end of a mule and some of us thought about the simple wholeness of life… how so much was just simply in, transformation, and more simply out.

I think the finite-infinite relation is similar: https://81018.com/redefining/#Jim

It would seem that supersymmetries manifest (within our model of 202 base-2 notations from the Planck scale to the current time), from notations 1-to-about-50. It seems way too simplistic and idiosyncratic, for sure, but given the progress of the past hundred years, perhaps a very different starting point is in order and the Planck scale has been overladen with preconceptions of space and time.

I map it out a little further here:
Summary:  https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3428
Article: https://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Camber_3u.pdf

And please, to be sure I am not wasting more of your time, there is no need to reply. Thanks.

Most sincerely,
Bruce

Second email: 20 January 2020 at 4:44 PM

RE: We believe! We believe!

Dear Prof. Dr. Sylvester James Gates:

Back in 2011 three high school teachers and about 90 geometry students began to explore how we could go deeper and deeper inside the tetrahedron by dividing the edges by 2 and going inside the four tetrahedrons, one in each corner and the octahedron in the middle. We also went inside the octahedron, one smaller octahedron in each of the six corners and eight tetrahedrons, one in each of the eight faces.  In just 45 steps from our little classroom objects — https://81018.co/tot/ — we were down among the fermions. In another 67 steps we were facing Max Planck’s base units and could go no smaller. When we finally returned to our classroom model and continued multiplied by 2, we were even more surprised to find we were out to the current age and size of the universe in just another 90 steps or doublings. We made a chart!

That is a total of 202 steps to encapsulate the universe.
How very clever we thought!
Out of a New Orleans high school class no less!

Well, we learned about tiling and tessellating the universe.
It was great fun!
Everything was related to everything.
No elitism anywhere!

Then we discovered, it was idiosyncratic. We felt duped by our simple logic and simple math! Here we were discovering how symmetries and continuities were ruling the universe and, “No, it’s wrong… idiosyncratic!” Well, what do you do when you are nobody from nowhere special?  We kept plodding along: https://81018.com/stem/

Now you don’t have to respond to this email. It’s a symbolic day and this is our symbolic gesture to the Supersymmetry Man! We thank you for your scholarship! And, congratulation you on your Brown University – Watson move.

Now, if  Newton’s absolute space-and-time fall were to breakdown under the strength of the Leibniz relational model, space-time would be understood to be derivative.  That just might help us find a sweet little supersymmetry hiding within those first fifty notations! Just a hunch!

Be well,

Warmest regards,

Bruce, Steve, Cathy, and Bryce (and even more students today)

First email: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 6:26 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Sylvester James Gates:

I was listening to your lecture online: On gravitational waves (part of the E.E. Just Symposium, 2014). I’ve also been reading your work within ArXiv. You have seen it all.

Yet, sometimes, don’t even you think we are on the wrong path?

I have read enough on your work to know you would readily discern whether Max Planck and our base-2 expansion of his base units constitute a legitimate model of the universe. It is idiosyncratic but it opens possibilities for new concepts about space, time and even infinity. Could Max Planck’s “little formula” for space-time do what Einstein did for mass-charge? https://81018.com/c/

202 base-2 notations or doublings. The universe is mathematically-encapsulated within this simple chart: https://81018.com/chart/  BUT, what do we do with it?

Much more than Kees Boeke’s base-10, our progression has an inherent geometry; and, it has the Planck scale from the first moment of time to this day. It has doublings that looked like a natural inflation. It has closed-cubic packing, bifurcation theory, emergence, and more. So I have written it up: https://81018.com/e8/

What do you think? Poppycock? Silliness? We know how entirely idiosyncratic it is which is altogether too close to being idiotic! If it is not idiotic, might you help guide us through this maze, particularly looking at notations that first define particles, then those notations that define elements?

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce
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