AAAS – American Association – Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.[1] AAAS was the first permanent organization established to promote science and engineering nationally and to represent the interests of American researchers from across all scientific fields.[1] It is the world’s largest general scientific society, with over 120,000 members,[2] and is the publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science. (Wikipedia)

AAAS – Science Journals – News – STEM

Introduction
High school is a place to explore the unknown and to build on the basics. It is a time to soak up information, knowledge, and wisdom. We know; we discovered some of those unknown concepts within our geometry classes. Simple geometries can be quite perplexing. On 9 January 2026, we sent this tweet to AAAS: “Part of the difficulty this year is lack of a fundamental breakthrough and the lack of consensus in pointing a new way. We’ve worked within a rather idiosyncratic model of the universe that is first defined by base-2 notations from the Planck scale. It started quite naively within a high school geometry class when we went deeper and deeper inside the tetrahedron and octahedron within it: https://81018.com/tot-2 We were ever so grateful for Max Planck base units. It gave us a place to stop. When we looked at what we did by dividing by 2, we decided to multiply by 2 and in just 90 steps we were out to the approximate size and age of the universe. https://81018.com/big-board That was spectacular and great fun to have the universe on a mathematical grid with just 202 notations, but what do you do with it? Now, ten years later, we’ve come a long way: https://81018.com Any help to hold the reins on this work would be appreciated! -Bruce”

9 January 2026

RE: Science @ Scale

Hello! Let us scale the universe from the smallest possible measurement to the largest. We got a bit of head start on it; back on 19 December 2011 when we did a base-2 exponential notation from the Planck scale to the size and age of the universe: https://81018.com/big-board/ Our board was initially five feet, then we did an eight-foot board for a conference at Stanford University. Of course, it would be greatly update as all the participant add to it. Certainly, it should be an electronic board so everybody could see their updates within the appropriate notation. It could be a show stopper, if there were electronic sorts and displays and showed people within their scale in a visual way and they were able to update their inputs as the conference progressed and people talked about it. I’d call on some ASU folks like Paul Davies — https://cosmos.asu.edu/ — and Jack Xin, University of California, Irvine who was the longtime editor of SIAM, Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. Of course, the AI people — Grok, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity and Anthropic-Claude would want to be involved, too. What a party!

I think it could be great fun for all!

Sincerely,
Bruce

References

  1. Big Board-little universe, “Can our entire universe be meaningfully encapsulated within just over 202 base-2 exponential notations?” the basic web page. https://81018.com/chart
  2. Big Board-little universe, “An exploration of 101 steps from the smallest measurement, the Planck length, to the human scale, and then 101 more steps to the Observable Universe” December 2011
  3. Big Board-little universe, “Some Calculations and Thoughts Regarding Measurement by Joe Kolecki, NASA scientist, retired” https://81018.com/2012/05/14/nasa/
  4. Big Board-little universe, “Universe Table – Human Scale” https://81018.com/table/
  5. Big Board-little universe, “UniverseView: Begin at the Planck Time and Planck Length, Use Base-2 Exponential Notation”  https://81018.com/plancktime/
  6. Big Board-little universe, “Five Planck Base Units – Vertically scrolled, 204-to-0” February 2015 https://81018.com/chart4/
  7. Big Board-little universe, “The original Wikipedia article as written in March 2012” https://81018.com/2012/05/05/wikipedia/
  8. Big Board-little universe, “Five Planck Base Units – Horizontally scrolled, 0-204 to the first second” May 2016. https://81018.com/chart
  9. Big Board-little universe, a working “Index” of articles from January 2012  https://81018.com/index/
  10. Big Board-little universe, “Freeman Dyson: A Guiding Light” October 22, 2012 https://81018.com/2012/10/22/dyson/

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Background and References

  • This page: https://81018.com/aaas/ It was started on June 2024.
  • AAAS, Science Magazine, Holden Thorp, 2020. Also, see: https://81018.com/thorp/
  • Letters to the Editors in 2017: The first email to the letters editors
  • AAAS Science Magazine: “Rejected”, Monica Bradford, 2016
  • This page was originally: https://81018.com/2016/06/16/aaas-science-rejects/
  • About our letters to the editors of AAAS Science magazine, April 2015
  • Consulting (editors, publishers) :
  • Bruce Roberts – Publisher, Education, Primary/Elementary Education, Teachers & Teacher Education. Bruce Roberts is Publisher for Learning Sciences on both the Routledge and Fulton lists and for David Fulton Primary publications. He has twenty years of experience in academic publishing.
  • Anna Clarkson – Editorial Director, Behavioral Sciences, Education, Anna.Clarkson@tandf.co.uk
  • Andrew Weckenmann  – Editor, Philosophy
  • Andrew Beck – Senior Editor, Philosophy, commissions leading books in all major areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, aesthetics, logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and history of philosophy.  He is especially interested in new textbooks that incorporate recent changes in a sub-discipline, scholarly monographs with potential appeal outside their core sub-disciplines, books grounded in analytic philosophy that engage cutting-edge research in the sciences, new ideas for reference works, and short primers on emerging areas of study.
  • Daina Habdankaite – Editor, Mathematics, textbooks, research, and professional books in all areas of Mathematics, with a focus on Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Modelling, Geometry and Topology, Discrete Mathematics, and Cryptography.
  • Daniel Schwartz – Publisher, Educational Psychology, commissions practical books for the Eye On Education imprint of Routledge’s US PreK-12 Professional books program. He seeks substantive yet highly accessible and strategically oriented books written by authors based in North America for a readership of teachers, leaders, administrators, and consultants. His signing areas include learning technologies and computer science education; STEM and STEAM education; career and technical education; cognitive, psychological, and neuroscientific factors of learning; behavior, mental health, and crisis/safety in schools; social-emotional learning; and student assessment and testing.
  •  Danny Kielty – Editor, Physics, within the CRC Press imprint. He commissions across the area of physics, with a speciality in astronomy and astrophysics, medical physics and biomedical engineering, high energy and particle physics, and nuclear and plasma physics. Danny is always happy to discuss books that will complement and enhance his existing suite of textbooks, handbooks, and cutting-edge research-level publications, so please reach out with your ideas (no matter how preliminary).
  • Tony Bruce – Senior Publisher, Philosophy, has global responsibility for the Routledge Philosophy list and twenty years’ experience in academic publishing. He commissions new books mainly in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and phenomenology but is interested in all subjects. Key series include Routledge Classics, New Problems of Philosophy, Routledge Philosophy Companions, and Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. He is also interested in new translations of important philosophical works and manages The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. A selection of authors Tony has worked with can be seen on his LinkedIn profile (https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/tony-bruce/16/294/258