I’ve been talking, writing, and often meeting with scholars since 1965. Earnest work went from 1971 to 1981, then picked back up again in 2011. These are mostly people whose work I have been following since 2011. My first meeting with Freeman Dyson was in 1976, and with Steven Weinberg was in 1977. I remember introducing Paul Davies as a graduate student for his lecture at BU in and around 1978. In January 2013 I met Frank Wilczek at his office in MIT and later in a restaurant in New Hampshire.
- Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Naples, Italy
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, IAS, Princeton, New Jersey USA
- John Baez, California USA
- Sean Carroll, John Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
- Charles Q. Choi, Science writer, Forest Hills, NY
- Francis Collins, Virgina USA
- Paul Davies, Phoenix, Arizona USA
- Philip Davis, Providence, Rhode Island USA
- Freeman Dyson, IAS, Princeton, New Jersey USA
- Fabiola Gianotti (also CERN), Switzerland
- Paul Hardaker, Institute of Physics, London, United Kingdom
- Stephen Hawking, Cambridge, England
- Sabine Hossenfelder, Munich, Germany
- Brian Josephson, Cambridge, England
- John Lennox, Oxford, England
- Frank Tipler, Tulane, New Orleans, LA USA
- Salvatore Torquato, Princeton, New Jersey USA
- Steven Strogatz (also), Ithaca, NY USA
- Max Tegmark (also), Cambridge, MA USA
- Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Frank Wilczek (also), Cambridge, MA USA
Early contacts within the framework of the Quiet Expansion, the writings of these people provided a sounding board upon which to evaluate our earliest ideas and challenges. These were the experts to whom we turned.