On learning about the work of Andrei Linde

TO: Andrei Linde, Stanford Department of Physics, Stanford, California
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Articles about you like It Seems That I Know How the Universe Originated, A. Lightman about Linde, The Atlantic, (Feb 2021) ; your articles in places like ArXiv(185); for example, Inflation at 25 (ArXiv, 2007),  Inflation, Quantum Cosmology and the Anthropic Principle (2007); Inflation and String Cosmology (2005); and your homepage such as Stanford, Stanford Profile, Edge, Wikipedia, and YouTube: Stanford, Closer to the Truth.

URL for our page about your work: https://81018.com/andrei/

Fifth email: 9 October 2024

Dear Andrei Linde,

Congratulations on your emeritus status.  

Back in 2016, in response to our first email, you posed a challenge to us and it resonated with me. As a result, I have been studying the measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment, especially the work of the g-2 collaboration. However, I came upon this rather unusual work based on the axiomatic and inferences and thought you might enjoy seeing it if you haven’t already: The Case for Planck Spherical Units, Matt Lorusso, Medium, 2021.

My first email is at the bottom of our page about your work: https://81018.com/andrei/#First and the last email on 15 August 2024 is here: https://81018.com/andrei/#Fourth. Once again, we thank you for all your tenacity through this wild ride through a maize of ideas and concepts.

With warmest regards,

Bruce

 Fourth email: 15 August 2024

Dear Prof. Dr. Andrei Linde:

After a few years of reflections, I think the right place to start our inquiries is with the very first moment of space/time. Beyond observation but not imagination, the question is asked, “What is the most versatile thing in our arsenal of mathematics and pure physics?” Several have pointed to sphere: https://81018.com/starts-2/ As you’d guess, others to the Planck Scale. In either scenario, looking at it in terms of base-2 exponential expansion, there is a long way to go to neutrinos and then the muon.

Your comments on my struggles with defining the infinitesimal may not be of interest —  https://81018.com/ (when no longer the homepage: https://81018.com/identity/ ) — yet if we get this right, doesn’t the rest of it just fall into place?

Best wishes,

Bruce
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Bruce E. Camber
https://81018.com/bec/
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Third email: July 6, 2023 @ 11:01 AM

Dear Prof. Dr. Andrei Linde:

We’ve made some progress with that anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (Muon g-2 Collaboration (Abstract/PDF).

We have also been learning about all the speculations around hypothetical particles and so many other studies that have not found a place on the grid. The gap between the electroweak and Planck scales and the natural gaps created by the most simple Platonic geometries have also been a focus. It is coming up on six years since my last email. Also, I thought you might be amused at this note to Cumrun Vafa, a reference on today’s homepage.

I wish you well with all your work. Thank you.

Warmly,

Bruce

Second email: September 14, 2017 (updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. Andrei Linde:

I was a product of the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science; that’s the Cohen-Stachel-Wartofsky 1970’s era (Boston University). At that time, 1972, little had been done with the Planck units. Perhaps Frank Wilczek (MIT) writing in Physics Today in 2001 helped to move those units beyond a Dirac-like numerology. Wilczek, both in his office and in a little New Hampshire restaurant, personally encouraged our investigations of the Planck base units.

Of course, over the years, the outside visions of others from other disciplines, have been welcomed. At other times, those insights have not been so welcomed. What is space? What is time? What is the finite-infinite relation? Without better answers to those questions, our derivative disciplines are like the Whirling Dervishes without proper initiation by the Mevlevi Order. Most of us simply get dizzy and gain very little insight.

You are so right about studying the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. I’ve begun that study.

Over the years, I have had the help of many fine professors:
•  John Wheeler who summered down the road in Maine, gave me his little preprint of Frontiers of Time, and I began following his work as best I could.
•  In 1997, with David Bohm and eight other doctoral students, we talked for seven hours about points, lines, triangles and tetrahedrons.
•  Viki Weisskopf had me in his home to talk about his work with the Pontifical Academy and on the nature of infinity.
•  My work at MIT in 1979 brought me into discussions with many of the greats around our academic world at that time.
•  On a few occasions I chatted with Lew Kowarski at the Boston University lecture series about the foundations of physics. Kowarski had proposed and implemented the concept of CERN.

Now, this coming week I’ll be in downtown San Francisco for a conference. I don’t know if you’d ever have the inclination, but I thought it could be worth asking the question: Would you have time for a quick meet-and-greet? Your 70-year old groupie has informally begun his work on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. A few of my “textbooks” are listed below!

Thanks so much.

Most sincerely,
Bruce
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Bruce E. Camber
Austin, Texas 78701
http://81018.com

PS. Reference articles and books:
• Applications of perturbative QCD (pQCD):  U. Aglietti, Y Sumino,  P Skands,
• The ubiquitous photon: helicity method for QED and QCD / R. Gastmans, Tai Tsun Wu
• The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon: a theoretical introduction, Marc Knecht ( 2003)
• E. Witten, Nucl. Phys. B223, 422 (1983)
• Theory of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment 
• Wikipedia: Anomalous magnetic dipole moment

First email: Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Dear Prof. Dr. Andrei Linde:

We are nobody from nowhere special. We certainly have no pedigree to justify writing to you.  You have made the origin and the global structure of the universe your life’s work; in 2011, we just started our studies of cosmology and we were literally backing into it through our studies of very simple geometries.

We discovered what we were doing was using base-2 notation to go from the Planck Length to the Observable Universe. It seemed logical. It was part of our high school geometry class focused on tiling and tessellating the universe and on embedded geometries. At first, we posted our results on the web in various blogs.

In the summer of 2016 we finally got our own website: https://81018.com The “8” stood for infinity, the “1” for unity and the “0” for transformation. It was simple and symbolic. The finite-infinite relation was one of the great mysteries and the Periodic Table, the Standard Model for Particle Physics and the Standard Model for Cosmology needed connective tissue. It seemed there were three scale that needed transformations, one to another.

At first, we declared our studies to be a STEM tool to learn Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Then we started adding the other Planck base units and we went out to the Age of the Universe.  At the end of that chart is the Now, today, the current time.

Now, that was puzzling. It seems that scholars are reluctant to criticize or guide us.

Our most recent work is posted here:  http://81018.com  We anticipate that this site will go beyond our high school work.

Are we just idiots?

Thanks.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

Google’s References within the site to Andrei Linde:

Stephen Hawking became its spokesperson. George Ellis signed on, Alan Guth and Andrei Linde got involved. Then, it began to take over the sandbox. Inflation, proposed in 1981 by Alan Guth, and later modified by Andrei Linde, Paul Steinhardt, Andreas Albrecht, and others.

Our References – Our Universe In 200+ Notations

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