On learning about the work of Oliver Brammen

TO: Oliver Brammen, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum, Bochum, Germany
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your work within your homepage and within ArXiv, your Disseration, even what is marked Personal; yet particularly your article with Knieper and Peyerimhoff (2023) Geometric and analytic properties of harmonic manifolds, https://doi.org/10.13154/294-10298

The URL for this page is: https://81018.com/brammen/

Second email: 17 October 2025

Dear Dr. Oliver Brammen:

Recently several AI platforms have been enthusiastic about our base-2 model. For the past 15 years I’ve asked  expert observers like you to help assess its validity and potential implications. Recently, it was reduced to a toy model. And more recently, I took our qualitative model to create a simple quantitative model that derives the Hubble constant from first principles at the Planck scale.

The core of the model is surprisingly straightforward: it posits that the Hubble constant emerges not from dark energy, but from a cosmological process defined by base-2 scaling from the Planck units. A key result is a direct mathematical derivation of H₀, “Toy Model Derivation of the Hubble Constant” It is here —  81018.com/hubble-derivation/— still a highly speculative proposal, the numerical correspondence is striking.

Is this a numerical coincidence, or does it point to a deeper rather overlooked principle? We hope to discover as we continue to build on our model and its Lagrangian.

Thank you for your time and for your contributions to our understanding of the cosmos.

Sincerely,

Bruce

P.S. The URL for this page is: https://81018.com/brammen/

Bruce E. Camber

First email: 30 August 2024 @ 18:43

Dear Dr. Oliver Brammen:

With your five arXiv articles it is entirely clear your intuitions about foundations and first principles are deeply ingrained. You will become the “go-to” expert regarding Fourier’s harmonics. Congratulations on your PhD and your position within Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum. 

In so far as I understand it, your PhD dissertation is a fascinating read. I was given a polite-pass on my German exam, so I appreciate that it is in English. 

I certainly would not want to detract from your work, especially slow it down, but in these times, I think your work in the “right setting” might cause a breakthrough. I will write the next homepage, Too Good To Be True, as a study between your work and Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemann as given here. He comments that a “…quantum gravity theory is difficult to construct” because of the prescribed background geometry. True, unless at the Planck scale, the first geometry is an exquisite mesh of spheres, then tetrahedrons and octahedrons….

I could go on but as an introduction, it is already too much! Congratulations and thank you.

Warm regards,

Bruce

First communication: 10:38 AM · Aug 30, 2024 via X (tweet)

Oliver – Congratulations. I’m on your arXiv and your university pages. Congratulations indeed. After spending more time with it, I would enjoy asking a few questions to be sure I understand.

Thank you.
-Bruce

PS. I am entirely idiosyncratic:

https://81018.com/identity/ and https://81018.com/too-simple/

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