TO: Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech, Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology. He is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Aspen Center for Physics (ACP), active within the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and University of Tokyo, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Homepage(s): arXiv(122), CV, IAS, Doctoral dissertation, Research, Wikipedia
This page: https://81018.com/ooguri/
Second email, Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Dear Prof. Dr. Hirosi Ooguri,
In our recent homepage about the foundations of physics (from the perspective of high school teachers and students), we asked, “Do these 202 notations with simple math and logic mean anything? Are they telling us something new? Do they hold true?” It appears to be the only exponential notation that has been done with fundamental units and physical constants. We have been checking to see if any Nobel laureates, directors of Planck Institutes, or IAS, NAS, or AAAS fellows have actually studied real numbers of a foundational exponential notation. Have you?
Famously, Stephen Hawking captures the start of the universe: “The answer, as most people can tell you, is the big bang. Everything in existence, expanding exponentially in every direction, from an infinitely small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense point, creating a cosmos filled with energy and matter. But what does that really mean and where did it all begin?” May 2016 PBS-TV series, Genius. But, I don’t think he ever looked at an exponential notation of numbers. I don’t think anybody had actually computed what “expanding exponentially” meant. Of course, scholars did not know about our little 2011 work, a high school group in New Orleans. We did do a simple base-2 progression from the Planck base units. We even had a basic geometry in place; and, a comparative analysis with best-possible big bang numbers was helpful.
As the chairman of Aspen, you have seen and heard plenty of crazy ideas. But, could this possibly be fulfilling Johnny Wheeler’s dream, “Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it — in a decade, a century, or a millennium — we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?” Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
*Aspen Center for Physics (ACP), Aspen, Colorado is at 7908’ (2438m) which perhaps encourages speculative, summer, creative thinking.
First email: Mar 2, 2023 at 7:37 PM (updated)
Dear Prof. Dr. Hirosi Ooguri,
Have we answered the three most pivotal questions:
- What is time?
- What is space? …function space?
- What is infinite?
https://81018.com/pointing/ addresses all three for Pi Day 2023.
Would you have a look please? Your comments are very important to me.
Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce