TO: William Bialek, John Archibald Wheeler / Battelle Professor in Physics
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your work in arXiv: Perspectives on theory at the interface of physics and biology (2015); and Action at a distance in transcriptional regulation (December 2019); and your book: Biophsyics: Searching for Principles (PDF), and even your CV and homepage, including Wikipedia and YouTube.
Fourth email: 18 December 2024
Dear Prof. Dr. William Bialek:
Four emails in nine years is not making too much of a nuisance of myself especially since all of them must have been quickly deleted. Yet, from my first mention of your work, I have been hopeful to receive some useful guidance from you.
I recognize that when that response is to be a Weinberg-like “Nonsense,” most scholars hit delete first. I am forever the optimist; and even when Weinberg wanted to say it, he politely held back with me because he didn’t want to be absurd to himself. Our history went back to 1979.
In 2013 and 2014, Wilczek opened his office (and on another occasion came to a restaurant to chat and receive unique models that we manufactured).
Dyson and I exchanged many emails. He didn’t know anybody else so naive as to suggest that base-2 notation from the Planck base units could render anything meaningful. It was just a small crack in the door and he wanted to see if anything develop from it.
It has been quite a slog through the swamplands, but the light of day is breaking with a little help from JWST.
I wish you well with your work; currently I have engaged your Ambitions for theory in the physics of life (PDF): ArXiv, 2024, and find many insightful ideas that readily apply to the infinitesimal domain between Notations 0-64 out of all 202 for the universe.
Let me wish you a wonderful end of year period.
Most sincerely,
-Bruce
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Embedded links:
- https://81018.com/thrust/#Bialek February 2015
- https://81018.com/weinberg/ January 2015 (and a link to a 1979 letter)
- https://81018.com/dyson/ January 2012, Freeman Dyson
- https://81018.com/2024/07/26/exponential-notation/ July 2024 Exponential notation
- https://81018.com/8-minutes/ JWST, September 2023
Third email: 7 October 2022
Dear Prof. Dr. William Bialek:
The James Webb Space Telescope has only started to give us new views of our universe and the challenges to current theory is significant. Perhaps foremost among those challenges is the JWST validation of Hubble’s findings regarding the smoothness of the early universe. It is becoming increasingly obvious that our models and first principles need to be re-examined. What is time? What is space? Those who continue to defend big bang cosmology at all costs will be impacted the most both emotionally and intellectually. There are other theories and its is time for all of us to re-examine them all.
My 2015 and 2017 emails to you and your team are here: https://81018.com/bialek/
Within all our many idealizations of space and time, I believe our simple base-2 chart of the universe and its implications as a map of the universe deserves more scrutiny. Would you have any interest in collaborating with us? Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
Second email: June 4, 2017
Dear Prof. Dr. William Bialek:
John Archibald Wheeler sent me one of his copies of Frontiers of Time for a 1979 project I developed at MIT based on Schrödinger’s book, What is life? So, you might well-imagine that I am delighted to begin reading your work, Biophysics: Searching for Principles. Your writing is clear and approachable. Your red notes are refreshing. It brings me right back into earlier dialogues about the nature of space and time. One of my all-time favorite quotes from Wheeler was from 1986 when he touted simplicity.
I am a very simple guy. My overly simplistic math has roots within a December 2011 high school geometry class where we went inside the tetrahedron and octahedron — ostensibly base-2 exponentiation — until we were down in the range of the Planck base units. That required 112 notations and then we went out to the Age of the Universe in just another 90 notations.
The simple math is here: https://81018.com/chart/
For at least the first year, we thought of it as a wonderful STEM tool, a way of organizing vast amounts of data in a very simple way. Each year, however, the model spoke to us in new ways. The first 64 or so notations open a very different sense of mathematics. I think Langlands, Feigenbaum, Rees, Wolfram and several others are onto something. Here we’ll begin the process of dropping their work into the model hoping that the strings begin to knot and that we can make music.
Right now, I am attributing the thrust of the universe to that exponentiation coupled with the Planck base units and all the formulae from which Planck pulled them, particularly the dimensionless constants with their seemingly infinite run of non-repeating, never-ending numbers.
Yes, I know, a bit crazy.
It is idiosyncratic bordering on crack-pottery for most critical scientists. So, let me beg your forgiveness if I seem to be too far out in left field. I can be pulled back in! If you think so, please, please try. Nobody has even tried.
Thank you.
Most sincerely,
-Bruce
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First email: February 8, 2015
https://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/our_papers/still+bialek_04.pdf
How Many Clusters? An Information-Theoretic Perspective
Susanne Still
William Bialek
Dear Prof. Dr. Suzanne Still and Prof. Dr. William Bialek,
Thank you for your “letter” that was communicated by Joachim Buhmann (Received June 17, 2003; accepted May 28, 2004). You have given me quite a lot of work to do. That’s good. I will be distilling it down for a high school geometry class that chased the nested geometries of the tetrahedral-octahedral chain back to the Planck Length and out to the Observable Universe; they found just in 202 “clusters” which we also refer to as domains, doublings, layers, notations, and steps.
An introduction to that work is here: https://81018.com
It is totally idiosyncratic, quite logical and entirely mathematical, so we are asking ourselves, “What is right and what is wrong with this picture? What are the Pros and what are the Cons?” Attempting to be a scholar is not easy.
Thanks again for your article.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
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Bruce Camber
New Orleans, Boston