On discovering the work of Cora Dvorkin and her groups

TO: Cora Dvorkin, Harvard Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature and MIT Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions
FM: Bruce E. Camber (Also: https://81018.com/bec/)
RE: Homepage(s): Harvard, Group. ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07821, Wikipedia, Harvard, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI @ MIT)

References: Discovering New Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Cosmological Data Sets (2018),  “Cosmological observations over the last few decades have provided us with a standard model of cosmology, where the six parameters that describe the data are constrained with percent-level accuracy. However, fundamental questions in our understanding of the universe remain unanswered. This project will address the following major puzzles in fundamental physics: (1) What is the physics that seeded the first structures in the universe? (2).What is the nature of Dark Matter and how is it related to particle physics?” Dvorkin adds, “This project will develop methods to analyze CMB data to help narrow down the shape of the inflation potential. Possible dark matter particles lighter than hydrogen will also be investigated.”

Fourth email: 5 October 2024

Re: James Peebles of Princeton says we have no theory of the start of the universe. Would these eight hypotheses qualify?

Dear Prof. Dr. Cora Dvorkin:

At the bottom of our homepage today are these eight hypotheses to start the universe. I thought you’d enjoy seeing them.  They are all linked back to a discussion in today’s homepage:

Yes, I think it would take at least these eight to define the first instant of the universe.

I hope your work proceeds well and your team is doing well and fine,

Bruce

PS.  My page about your work and my emails to you: https://81018.com/dvorkin/

Third email: 14 July 2024

RE: What physics seeded the first structures in the universe?

Dear Prof. Dr. Cora Dvorkin:

I make a brief reference to you and Hiroshi Ooguri. In different ways, you are asking the same fundamental question. I recognize that my first note (below) was too informal and voluminous. And, that of course, pre-judged the second note.

The reference page is here: https://81018.com/enigmatic/ and I would gladly include your assessment of the numbers on my page about your work: https:81018.com/dvorkin/ (this page).

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

Second email: August 14, 2023

Dear Prof. Dr. Cora Dvorkin:

Why are there so many theories and so little consensus? This is the Wikipedia list for Physics Beyond the Standard Model: (1) Brans–Dicke theory, (2) Cosmic censorship hypothesis, (3) Fifth force, (4) F-theory, (5) Theory of everything, (6) Unified field theory, (7) Grand Unified Theory , (8) Technicolor, (9) Kaluza–Klein theory, (10) 6D (2,0) superconformal field theory, (11) Noncommutative quantum field theory, 12) Quantum cosmology, (13) Brane cosmology, (14) String theory, (15) Superstring theory, (16) M-theory, (17) Mathematical universe hypothesis, (18) Mirror matter, (19) Randall–Sundrum model, (20) N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory, (21) Twistor string theory , (22) Dark fluid, (23) Doubly special relativity, (24) de Sitter invariant special relativity, (25) Causal fermion systems, (26) Black hole thermodynamics, (27) Unparticle physics, (28) Graviphoton, (29) Graviscalar Graviton, (30) Gravitino, (31) Massive gravity, (32) Gauge gravitation theory, (33) Gauge theory gravity, and (34) CPT symmetry.

Will your work add another theory or will it open paths to resolve all those theories and all the historic others not listed (there are many)? More questions for a paradigm shift:

  1. Historically, do things started simple before becoming complex?
  2. What is the most simple, ubiquitous, equation that does the most versatile things?

Thank you,

Bruce

First email: April 3, 2023, 11:26 AM

Dear Prof. Dr. Cora Dvorkin:

You are a serious group doing important work, yet with the confluence of data from JWST, our most basic assumptions need re-review. Beyond the Standard Model, particularly from the Planck scale to the electroweak scale, has been studied meticulously.  Even when studied from the Planck scale, all the assumptions from the electroweak laden the decision trees.

Questions for a paradigm shift:

  1. What if it all truly starts at the Planck scale? 
  2. What manifests first?
  3. Might infinitesimal spheres?
  4. Could Lemaitre’s “primeval atoms” be a metaphor?
  5. Is Fourier’s 1820 work (harmony) scale invariant to the Planck scale?
  6. Do sphere-stacking and cubic-close packing of equal spheres apply?
  7. Does it follow from Poincaré to Smale-and-Milnor?
  8. Do those earliest geometries define perfection? …a finite-infinite relation?
  9. Do these geometries then define quantum fluctuations?

My overview: https://81018.com/continuity-symmetry-harmony/
Our base-2 chart of numbers: https://81018.com/chart/
Our little history: https://81018.com/home/
Our earliest interpretation: https://81018.com/stem/
More: https://81018.com/pages/ https://81018.com/index/

Your most direct criticism would be appreciated. 

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

PS. Harvard Connections: Harvard, I grew up in the shadows of Harvard. When still in high school in 1964, I joined the Harvard SDS. Later, in 1971, I was with Arthur Loeb and his group called the Philomorphs in the attic of Sever Hall. In 1975 I was over at the Harvard Divinity School with Arthur McGill where we engaged Austin Farrer’s Finite and Infinite. 

Now my grandparents were part of Episcopal Theological School housekeeping staff. Those buildings are now part of Lesley College (down on Brattle Street near the Radcliffe Institute). The school (institution) is now in NYC and they are still surveying possibilities for its future. My dad did HVAC sheet metal work at Harvard. Dad and I had attended an “all-night” teach-in  at Memorial Hall (1964). Much later (1970) I was back on campus with Arthur Loeb (and his friend Bucky Fuller) as part of his Philomorphs group. My highest and best use of time was with Arthur McGill at HDS studying Finite and Infinite by Austin Farrer. I also spent a bit of time with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow before Weinberg went off to join his mentor, Johnny Wheeler, in Austin, Texas and eventually Glashow went to BU.

In 1979 I did a special display project at MIT and got great advice and help from Gerald Holton. There were so many others in the Harvard community. With Hilary Putnam and a handful of grad students we went to W.V.O. Quine’s home for dinner to discuss the foundations of logic…. all precious memories. Thank you. -BEC

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