TO: Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique, Universitaire, d’Orsay, France
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Homepage(s): ArXiv, Nobel, Wikipedia and key publications: Bell’s Theorem – The Naive View of an Experimentalist, Feb 2004
This page: https://81018.com/aspect/ https://81018.com/espagnat/ https://81018.com/empower/#Words
First email: 27 May 2024 @ 4 pm. (Updated)
Dear Prof. Dr. Alain Aspect:
Might you remember back to 1980, in late March or early April, when J.P. Vigier came for a visit. Bernard d’Espagnat and an American doctoral candidate were also with him.
If by chance you remember just Vigier and d’Espagnat, I won’t be insulted! I had been studying with J.P. Vigier and just met d’Espagnat. I would meet one day each week with Vigier and on another day with Olivier Costa de Beauregard at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP). Those private discussions, for about an hour, were to explore the EPR Paradox and Bell’s inequality equations. I had read their papers, written to each, and both agreed to weekly sessions so long as each seemed productive.
I had already spent time on two different occasions in London with David Bohm and in Geneva with John Bell. My primary work at Boston University had been with Abner Shimony, Bob Cohen and that gang, but I had come to the school with a strange formula about “perfected states in space-time” so there were many questions about my work and understanding of quantum physics. To this day, I point others to my generalization of that formula that I had wrestled into reality in 1971: https://81018.com/foundations/. Also, I had been the coordinator — https://81018.com/mit/ — of a project at MIT about first principles, ostensibly looking for metaphors or analogies that might open a new path.
Not long ago, I realized that I had failed to see the obvious; pi (π) was the heart of each equation.
I have a few unusual questions for you:
1. Do you believe, like Hawking, that the universe is exponentially expanding?
2. If so, is that expansion a base-2 expansion? Might it be?
3. If so, have you ever examined an expansion with natural numbers like the Planck base units?
That simple but tedious work is here: https://81018.com/chart/ (horizontally-scrolled, 34 pages).
4. Is it enough? Are those first 64 notations enough of a foundation to give us our universe?
If not, why not? Where is the fallacy of misplaced concreteness? https://81018.com/
Congratulations on all that you have accomplished. It’s huge and important. And, you look great!
Warmest regards,
Bruce
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Bruce E. Camber https://81018.com/bec/ Austin-Boston
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From Wikipedia (within the section on Education)
“In the early 1980s, while working on his doctorat d’État (habilitation thesis),[10] he performed the Bell test experiments that showed that Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen‘s putative reductio ad absurdum of quantum mechanics, namely that it implied ‘ghostly action at a distance‘, did in fact appear to be realized when two particles were separated by an arbitrarily large distance (see EPR paradox and Aspect’s experiment). “ He was conducting those experiments as early as April 1980.