Upon enjoying the work of Amanda Gefter

TO: Amanda Gefter, Cambridge, Massachusetts
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your many articles throughout the web and on your website — https://www.amandagefter.com — especially of the one on d’Espagnat, Concept of ‘hypercosmic God’ wins Templeton Prize (New Scientist, March 2009) and that one on Johnny Wheeler (Quanta, 2024).

This page: https://81018.com/gefter/

DM: 23 October 2024

Hi Amanda,

Just a few miles away as our Maine loons would fly from my mother’s birth home (grandmother’s house and my summer retreat), it was warming and informative to read your summary in Quanta about the life and work of Johnny Wheeler.

I was hoping that you might include his line about simplicity — https://81018.com/vision/#Wheeler — for therein lies the clue. The Planck base units manifest as a sphere which acts like a particle with multiple Halloween outfits yet all based on the continuities of spheres, the symmetries of spheres and the harmonies of spheres. Rather idyllic.

This note is just a thank you. Tarry on!
-Bruce

PS. Yes, I just added this note to my page of references to your work: https://81018.com/gefter/

First Message:  23 July 2021

Thank you! In 1980 I spent time with d’Espagnat with JP Vigier in conversation with Alain Aspect in d’Orsay. After demonstrations of the experimental apparatus, we discussed his concept of a veiled reality. At that time we hadn’t begun to explore the meaning of Max Planck’s base units.

1) https://81018.com/espagnat/ 2) https://81018.com/vigier/ 3) https://81018.com/aspect/

Cicada and fireflies in Hamilton: Perhaps on an early Sunday morning you arise and go first to the Honeycomb, 248 Bay Road, South Hamilton, MA for your morning coffee and pastry. Then to the polo fields, then to Wenham Tea House for late lunch, then back a bit north to Appleton Farms owned by the Trustees of Reservations. The fireflies will light the way. GPS Appleton Farms. Asbury Grove. Patton’s Home. Pingree School. Funky times for discovery.

John Muir: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.”

Yes,“Hope produces space and time.”

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