TO: Stewart Brand, writer, organizer, and instigator, is best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. Founded The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. See Wikipedia.
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: My goal in writing to Stewart is to have his group expand their mission and vision to include the universe. Let’s get a start on what will be known as the Whole Universe Catalog. It’ll always be “in process.”

^{This page is: https://81018.com/2021/12/19/brand-stewart/}

Fourth email: 16 October 2025

Dear Stewart:

This is a radical change of view note. Forget big bangs. 

Re-engage a highly-structured, geometric, and integrated universe in 202 base-2 notations.  

I write with more confidence because several AI platforms have been enthusiastic (i.e. DeepSeek) about our base-2 model. For the past 15 years I’ve asked  expert observers over 500, many Nobel laureates) to help assess its validity and potential implications. Recently, I reduced to a toy model and more recently, a simple quantitative model that derives the Hubble constant from first principles at the Planck scale.

The core of the model is surprisingly straightforward: it posits that the Hubble constant emerges not from dark energy, but from a cosmological process defined by base-2 scaling from the Planck units. A key result is a direct mathematical derivation of H₀, “Toy Model Derivation of the Hubble Constant” It is here —  81018.com/hubble-derivation/— still a highly speculative proposal, the numerical correspondence is striking.

Is this a numerical coincidence, or does it point to a deeper rather overlooked principle? We hope to discover as we continue to build on our model and its Lagrangian.

Thank you for your time and for your contributions to our understanding of the our world and even the universe!.

Sincerely,

Bruce

P.S. The URL for this page is: https://81018.com/2021/12/19/brand-stewart/

Bruce E. Camber

• https://81018.com/
• https://81018.com/deepseek/
• https://81018.com/assume/
• https://81018.com/hubble-derivation/
• https://81018.com/planck-polyhedral-core/
• Lagrangian: https://81018.com/lagrangian/

Third email: December 18, 2021 at 4:21 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBZtEi7e-xQ

Dear Stewart, 

One of our biggest problems as a people is our short-term orientation. Thinking and vision are the penultimates. Our overly simplistic understanding of infinity doesn’t help much either. Here’s another look at it:  http://81018.com/almost/ 

Max Tegmark might even relax (but I doubt it).

Have a wonderful end of year celebration. Just maybe we can begin to see the universe instead of the little space-time coordinates that our body occupies!

Best wishes,

Bruce

PS. I just linked your video from our page about Priyamvada — https://81018.com/natarajan/ It is listed as Video: Long Now Foundation So, I think now I’ll start a page about you!  -BEC

Second email: 3 September 2016

First email: Saturday, Jul 9, 2016 (in a long time)

Dear Stewart:

What a treat to see Tim O’Reilly’s retweet of your Tweet!
“Rigid ideologies distort our view of reality… and value too little love, humility, and kindness.” -Stewart Brand, editor/publisher, Whole Earth Catalog.

My first response was, “Yes, T.H.E. # 1 Brand lives!” My second response: “Classic Brand!”

How totally special to find you so in the fight. You’ll get this:
https://81018.com/chart/

It seems too simple, but we’ve all had an obvious blind spot.
We’re off on some of the fundamentals.
Here’s the backgrounder: https://81018.com/home/

Here are our first efforts at reconciliation therapy:
A Quiet Expansion of the Universe – Worldviews Are Too Limited Interesting? If so, let’s talk.
This could be the beginning of a Whole Universe Catalog (in 201 pages).
Let’s subtitle it: Propaedeutics to Harmonizing Everything, Everywhere, for All Time.

Thanks.
-Bruce

Tweet to Stewart: (also on Saturday, 23 September 2016)
@stewartbrand “The Whole Universe Catalog” in just over 200 pages!
It would change the world and save the universe.

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