TO: Kaća Bradonjić, Hampshire College, Box NS, 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your homepage, your arXiv articles, and your work at Boston University with John Stachel, Wikipedia
This page: https://81018.com/bradonjic/
Second email: 4 February 2025
Thanks for the reply.
You had the rare privilege to pen the last two of the seven articles by John Stachel on ArXiv:
1. Quantum Gravity: Meaning and Measurement, ArXiv, 2013
2. Unimodular conformal and projective relativity, ArXiv (PDF), 2011
I am also reviewing the 2007 Annual Report, John Stachel for references to you and Mihaela Iftime.
Thanks again.
Bruce
First email: 2 February 2025
Dear Prof. Dr. Kaća Bradonjić:
Finally… Congratulations on your ArXiv articles with John Stachel. Excellent.
I sent a little note a day or two ago and promised to follow-up. Yes, long, long ago, in 1970 I started to attend the weekly lectures. I was quietly attentive, tried to ask informed questions. Very quickly both Cohen and Wartofsky had personally greeted me. I was part of a think tank on Brattle Street; our specialty was asking evocative questions. Also, being part of Arthur Loeb’s Philomorphs, Carpenter Arts Center, I believe you would have fit in there marvelously. My bailiwick was “a moment of perfection,” a fleeting moment of profound insight or an experience where continuity, symmetry and harmony were ever so heightened.
I never escaped it: https://81018.com/foundations/
The guys didn’t know what to do with me. It seemed like I wanted to buck quantum theory. And, perhaps they knew better than I did. Cohen saw an opportunity and asked me to visit to re-invite Harold Oliver at the School of Theology to the lectures; he was the last person to be on a sabbatical with Fred Hoyle.
We all have our stories. Yet, strangely enough, in unique ways, we have all been held in check by the big bang. Recently the JWST has raised substantial questions, but it has not been enough to look for another platform, i.e. an exponential notation of base units like Planck, Stoney, or the ISO-BIPM.
I am now asking as many as I can to consider it within six steps:
1. If there is an infinitesimal sphere at one unit per Planck Time and Planck Length, there are 18.5 tredecillion spheres per second. A cosmological constant, the universe is perfectly isotropic and homogeneous and expansion is immediate and uniform. Sphere stacking-and-packing opens the Euclidean universe and our universe is defined by infinitesimal spheres. https://81018.com/stacking/
2. A Planck scale is defined within the first 64 notations, well below possible measurements of a length and a unit of time (transaction speed), or a density. https://81018.com/tredecillion/
3. Given the scale invariance of spheres, there is a continuity, symmetry, and harmony within each sphere: https://81018.com/csh/
4. Notation-143 contains one second, N-169 – one year, N-179 – 1000 years, N-189 – one million years, and N-199 – a billion years.
5. At some point in a-yet-to-be-calculated time, the densities between spheres allow for a five-tetrahedral construction, and then a five-octahedral construction. And then, at some point in a-yet-to-be-determined time, these constructions become systemic; a different kind of construction, there is space to move. Quantum fluctuations begin. https://81018.com/stacking/
6. All notations are all active and build upon each other. Notations, probably to N-64, constitute candidates for dark matter and dark energy. It’ll take an imaginative person to open this door.
Perhaps you can help to tighten up those six steps.
You are the last person to have written anything with one of the world’s living sages. Does John still communicate with you? Is he still active?
Most sincerely
Bruce