TO: Francis Sellers Collins, once with the National Institutes for Health, Washington, DC
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your awards especially the Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Medal of Science, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, The Templeton Award, and your books The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, and your homepages, i.e. CV (41 pages, last update 2013), Twitter – X, Wikipedia, YouTube.
Note: Many articles make references to Collins. For my own edification, I specially note the work of Don Page (Alberta), Does God So Love the Multiverse? (2008) (PDF).
The URL for this page: https://81018.com/2020/09/25/collins/
Other key pages: https://81018.com/patent/#Challenge and https://81018.com/mit2/
Deep structure: https://81018.com/2008/01/02/totline/
Deeper structure: https://81018.com/2014/12/01/tiling/
2024 email: 3 May 2024
Dear Dr. Francis Collins:
I hope you are enjoying idyllic days in those lovely rolling hills of Virginia. I have been thinking about the title of your book and wondered if you might find my rather long statement of some interest, i.e. “Part of the language of God is numbers, geometries and equations that all come from the perfections of the sphere which of course come from the mysteries within pi (π) with her inherent continuity-symmetry-harmony (creating order-relations-dynamics).” That formulation came to me in 1971 while I was puzzling perfected states within spacetime. The results were a very special euphoria that still inspires me. Yet, it wasn’t until 2020 that I began to grasp that relation to pi (π).
I have lost my copy of my very first email to you back in 2006 or 2007. You were the first person outside of academia to whom I had written about these things. Your publisher had given me an advance copy of the Language of God and asked me to comment on it. She had come to New Orleans to empower a new book about a high school football coach. There’s a back story there perhaps someday I’ll share with you about the almighty teaching moments within our life. Sometime in June or July, I’ll send you links to a report that includes references to this page. I think you’ll enjoy it.
I hope your days are joyous and your speeches are compellingly bringing people back home.
Warmly,
Bruce
PS. It is remarkable process as we close in on a key concept that has not yet been adopted by the scholarly community. In 2014 when I got a patent, it was a special validation that inspite of Alexander Graham Bell’s space frames and Bucky Fuller’s octet truss, there was a new idea within that application. It helped me finally to realize something as simple as our base-2 application to the Planck base units could be “an original” idea and there was much more to discover within those octet geometries, mathematics, and endless equations. Now, it is onto to create a virtual reality to bring alive the eight statements a/k/a hypostases so our scholars with no place on the grid and our national labs can truly define those first 64 notations. –BEC
2020 email: January 30, 2020, 12:25 PM
Dear Dr. Francis Collins:
In the darkness of these days and our times, we all need an attitude adjustment. For most, believing in God’s grace and God’s light is too big a jump.
I just ask all my atheist friends (seems it’s cool to be an atheist these days), my Democrat friends and my Republican friends, “Just break out of your solipsistic nonsense, get over your enduring narcissism, spare me of your nihilism, and stop fooling around with dystopian madness.”
“Worldviews are so yesterday. We all need a highly-integrated view of the universe!”
March 14 is coming up soon. It’ll be pi day and in my slowly-emerging model of the universe, pi is pivotal: http://81018.com/challenge/ (Y’all can have a little laugh at my expense.) It’s OK.
Notwithstanding, I send you my warmest thoughts for the continued success of all your work.
Poor Dr. Fauci; he seems so lost without you.
Again, best wishes,
Bruce
2020 email: August 20, 2020, 4:47 PM
RE: Congratulations indeed! The Language of God has 2020 vision.
Dear Dr. Francis Collins:
Congratulations on winning the Templeton Award! Outstanding. Legendary!
It has been over seven years since we’ve communicated, yet I now have several references to you within my evolving website:
1. https://81018.com/templeton/
2. https://81018.com/just-a-second/#Afterthoughts
3. https://81018.com/2008/01/02/totline/
I’ll be updating these pages and I will be developing a primary page of references. Best wishes with your work to grasp and control all the parasites and viruses and other pathogens of this world!
Best wishes indeed,
Bruce
2014 Email: 7 February 2014, 4:04 PM
Dear Dr. Francis Collins:
As a sequel to the Big Board-little universe, you might find this of
some interest: https://81018.com/2014/05/21/propaedeutics/
Your most critical comments would be profoundly appreciated.
-Bruce
2013 Email: Thursday, April 25, 2013 6:31 PM
Dear Dr. Francis Collins:
Thank you for your work to bring new light to old belief systems. Your book, The Language of God, is on my bookshelf. That you are a profound Christian thinker is obvious. That you have been profoundly criticized by the best of the atheists is also quite obvious.
Most atheists do not have answers to some rather simple questions about life.
In December 2011 I was helping a high school teacher, part of our extended family, to engage his students in base-2 exponential notation applied to the smallest and largest known measurements within our physical world. We started with the Planck Length and went out to the Observable Universe. Both measurements are well-known but base-2 notation had not been applied to that range. We discovered 202.34 notations (doublings, layers or steps) by simply multiplying the Planck Length by 2 and then multiplying each result by 2 until we reached the largest measurement.
It is a different kind of ordering system than base-10 because its granularity has a parallel construct to many processes in chemistry and biology.
Is it useful? Should it be encouraged? If you would like to take a look at some of the discussions around it, some of our work is posted here: https://81018.com/concepts-parameters/
Thanks.
Warmly,
Bruce