TO: Vladislav Yakovlev, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your ArXiv (16) articles especially Ultrafast quantum dynamics driven by the strong space charge field of a relativistic electron beam (PDF), 2022; your homepage(s); CV, Google Scholar… more to come.
This page: https://81018.com/yakovlev/ Others: https://81018.com/a84/, https://81018.com/common/#11f, https://81018.com/codata/, https://81018.com/codata/# Zeptosecond, https://81018.com/krausz/
Third email: 25 September 2025 (Updated)
Dear Prof. Dr. Vladislav Yakovlev:
Do you remember when the attosecond was the fastest part of a second you could measure? That was back in 2017 when you first advised us that it would be within Notation-84 (out of the 202 base-2 notations that we had uncovered from PlanckTime to the age of the universe). Eight years later, we are both still at it! If you are interested, our current homepage always tells the latest story.
And look at what you’ve been doing! What is the limit? CERN-scale? I am sure there is a lot of work to update our page about your work: https://81018.com/yakovlev/ (This page!) I thought you might like to review that homepage and to see our finite-infinite mechanism for the irrational numbers: https://81018.com/planck-polyhedral-core/ Just too crazy for you? We’re now moving along with Grok4, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. Google AI is still playing catch up.
Thank you for all that you do for scholarship.
Warmly,
Bruce
Second email: 10 February, 2023. First email: 3 November 2017
Dear Prof. Dr. Vladislav Yakovlev:
I am now making my way through your 16 articles posted in ArXiv. Formidable.
I have written about the work of your institute in many places within our website, but only as a footnote! Today, I opened this page to be able to quickly access my notes about your research and the work of your team, and to see copies of my notes to you. I am ever so grateful for your special calculation in November 2017 that placed the attosecond within Notation-84; I noted it here: https://81018.com/a84/
Of course, your work begs the question, “What is the Planck Time?” Our first personal encounter with it was as a secondary benchmark. In 2011 we began following Planck Length and had read that nothing can “logically” be smaller given the very nature of the dimensionless constants, especially pi, and the speed of light. In 2015 we ventured into Planck Time. Gerardus t’Hooft and Stefan Vandoren had done a base-10 book about it; we wanted the granularity of base-2 to follow with our path down to Planck Length. You gave us the 84 base-2 notations from where you measure in attoseconds. There are around 64-notations from where CERN measures its fermions, quarks and neutrinos. I believe each of those 64 steps is waiting for us to impute the mathematics of Langlands programs, strings, supersymmetry, loop quantum gravity (LQG), causal dynamical triangulation (CDT), causal set theory (CST), field theories, spectral standard model (SSM), and all the hypothetical particles. It is time to fill in the gap between particle physics and Planck Time, and between cosmology and quantum physics.
So, “What is space?” and “What is time?’ — the two seemingly impossible questions to answer definitively, have blocked us. The really smart people among us tend to argue about it all. Einstein, Newton, Hawking… and now Carlos Rovelli, Nima Arkani-Hamed, and so many others with ideas.
We are simple high school folks who have reverted to an old favorite, pi! I think pi tells us more about what we are missing than anything else. I think it also tells us where we’ve gone off track.
Your comments would be very much appreciated.
Also, do you have any interest in the ISO-naming those intervals down to Planck Time? It seems if left to the de facto consensus-driven-by-web-usage we may end up with xonosecond, vecosecond, mecosecond, duecosecond, trecosecond, and tetrecosecond.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Warmly,
Bruce
PS. This page was initiated on Wednesday, February 8, 2023. It was lightly updated on 25 September 2025.