Upon discovering the work of Malcolm Fairbairn

TO: Prof. Dr. Malcolm Fairbairn, Kings College London, UK
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Articles-being studied: Dark Matter Hunting in 2021 –How do you look for something when you don’t know what it is? (PDF at IPPP-Durham). Also looking at you other ArXiv (79) papers, your homepage(s), Google Scholar, inSPIREHEP, Solvay Institute (Current Dark Matter Searches and the Neutrino Bound (PDF – 84 pp), Twitter, and YouTube: What is the horizon problem? Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter

This page: https://81018.com/fairbairn/ Within this site: https://81018.com/smallest-largest/

Fourth email: 17 October 2025

FYI. A little follow up of the last email.Our page about your work:  https://81018.com/fairbairn/

Third email: 16 May 2025

Dear Prof. Dr. Malcolm Fairbairn:

I watched a Jon Ellis’ video from 2017, Brief Introduction to Everything, and around 13 minutes into it, he pegged the formation of atoms at about 300,000 years. Eight years later with you, Juan Urrutia, and  Ville Vaskonen, you all begin making creative and speculative adjustments to the data based on results from the JWST. As it should be! 

If a simpler and perhaps more robust answer could be imagined, might you be inclined to consider it?

Thank you.

– Bruce Camber

P.S. A more simple answer might include Planck’s base units, basic Euclidean geometries, the four primary irrational numbers, and the geometries of the gaps. –BEC

My page about your work is here:  https://81018.com/Fairbairn/

Second email: 27 September 2023

Dear Prof. Dr. Malcolm Fairbairn:

I noticed some activity today on our page about your work — https://81018.com/fairbairn/ As a result, I have been going through some of your 79 ArXiv articles (where you are listed among the co-authors.) Humbling to see how much I don’t know and how much you know and to see all that you have done! Thank you for your lifetime of thoughtful work.

If you want anything added, deleted or updated from our Fairbairn page, just say the word!

Given our work is so rudimentary, it is easily written off. However, in light of what we are learning from the JWST, it is not quite so easy to redefine the inflaton and inflationary theory to continue to protect the big bang theory. Turok, Arkani-Hamed and Tegmark call for a redefinition of space-time-infinity. Why not start at the Planck base units with an infinitesimal sphere, a shell particle, and grow the universe from there?

https://81018.com/ may be idiosyncratic, yet nobody has told us in any way that it is wrong. Perhaps you can. Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

First email: 18 October 2021

Dear Prof. Dr. Malcolm Fairbairn:

I thank you for your presentation for the Planck 2021, the International Conference from the Planck Scale to Electroweak Scale. I am on page 70 of your PDF, where you say, “We are well into an era of using novel approaches to learn more about dark matter.”

We came up with a novel approach that harkens back to an IPPP group that substituted for Sir Peter Higgs for a public lecture for school children and their families. They asked the right question: “What is the smallest thing in the universe?” That picture and our discussion are online here: https://81018.com/smallest-largest/

Might we agree that Max Planck (1899) and George Johnstone Stoney (1874) were both on the right track when each calculated their base units? Even though there is some disparity about the actual numbers, the general concept stands.

Then, can the students’ question be answered, “It’s an approximation, but somewhere around the Planck or Stoney base units.”  Stepping aside the singularity issues, might the kids ask, “Well, what’s there?” And might some of the clever ones among them, respond earnestly, “An infinitesimal sphere on the order of Lemaitre’s primordial atom!”

And, what would you say to those clever students? I took them seriously and we explored it. Perhaps you can help us correct our wanderings into this rather idiosyncratic alternative reality.

Thank you so very much.

Warmly,

Bruce

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The Summary Overview:

Dark Matter Hunting in 2021 – How do you look for something when you don’t know what it is?
Presenter: FAIRBAIRN, Malcolm (King’s College London)
The Search for clues as to the nature of Dark Matter continues in more varied and novel ways than ever before and has never been more challenging nor more stimulating. In this talk I will describe a variety of approaches that have been worked on over the past years, focusing shamelessly on those I have been involved in personally. We can learn about dark matter. through observations of dwarf galaxies, by trying to explain anomalies at particle physics experiments (both collider and direct detection experiments), and also by looking at the impact of the dark sector on relics left over from the big bang in the form of nuclei and gravitational waves. I will also discuss some of the other physics which may emerge along the way and briefly comment on what we can expect from the future.

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Page 70, Dark Matter Hunting in 2021: How do you look for something when you don’t know what it is?

Prof. Dr. Malcolm Fairbairn has a great sense of humor! This is page 33 of that same presentation.