Thu, Aug 11, 2016, 4:12 PM

David –  I was looking for primary references about the Planck Epoch and landed on your http://www.sciencemeetsreligion.org/physics/ page and especially enjoyed your summary and chronology.

A couple of years ago, I looked up at the ceiling of La Sagrada Familia cathedral, so when I saw your picture on the site, I had to look further.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Bailey was my next stopping point.  And then,  http://www.davidhbailey.com/

Thank you for all your work.  I have bookmarked the pages.

My last venture in physics was in 1980 at BU with Robert Cohen and that gang, and in Paris with Jean-Pierre Vigier and Olivier Costa de Beauregard, both of the Institut Henri Poincaré.  I had worked with Cohen and the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science since about 1971.

I backed into it all over again within a high school geometry class.  My nephew asked me to help out. That was 2011.  Since then we’ve been using base-2 (https://81018.com) exponential notation to go from the Planck scale to the Age of the Universe. A horizontally-scrolled base-2 chart: https://81018.com/chart/  And though totally naive and we wet behind our ears, we have begun to question aspects of big bang cosmology.

Because the family says, “Bruce, we don’t understand,” I have started a version for them: https://bbludata.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/timeline/

I believe the key will boil down to the electroweak processes:
https://bbludata.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/electroweak/

Along the way we are bumping into very large numbers in very small places: https://81018.com/expansion/

Although we’ve started from a relatively simple place and had the special help of Max Planck and Frank Wilczek; they paved the way), it is still bewildering.

We’ll continue to plod along, but given your background, expertise, and sensitivities, I would be most interested to hear what you think (knowing full-well how entirely idiosyncratic we have become).

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce