TO: Partha Ghose, Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India and West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology; Distinguished Fellow, Tagore Centre for Natural Sciences and Philosophy, Kolkata
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your articles such as Counting in the Dark, Inference (October 2022); your arXiv articles such as The Story of Bose, Photon Spin and Indistinguishability(June 2023) and Intersystem Bell-like States…; and your book(s) such as An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling: A Framework Based on Philosophy and Modern Science with Sudip Patra (December 2023); even your homepage(s) help within Academia, inspireHEP, and Wikipedia.
Second email: 4 April 2024
Dear Prof. Dr. Partha Ghose:
What has happened to Inference magazine? They’ve seem to disappear overnight along with your article about counting in the dark. For the short-term, might I re-post it for you? Just send it along and it will be live within a hour. Thank you. – Bruce
First email: 2 March 2024
Dear Prof. Dr. Partha Ghose:
I have to thank you for all your work; you are very nicely cajoling me to learn about the calculus of Jones and Mueller and so much more.
For me, it begs the questions: (1) Where is the most logical place to begin our mathematical modeling of our universe? (2) Could it be with the dimensionless constants (and natural units)? (3) Would it be with the smallest units of space and time? (4) Or, would it be with a two-qubit circuit defined by a Hadamard gate H and a CNOT gate? …a Bloch sphere in a pure state?
Although impossibly small, are you aware of any such attempts at such a modelling the universe beginning within the Planck scale? Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) says, “We have no idea.” Frank Wilczek (MIT) has plenty of ideas. And, I suspect that you do as well.
My work in that area is here: https://81018.com
Why wouldn’t we start with the question, “What could possibly manifest at the first moment of space time?” What is that thing?” Might we decide that the most-simple thing is an infinitesimal sphere? Might old and simple pi (π) render insights? Might there manifest one infinitesimal sphere for each unit of Planck Time? Might the universe be a grid of infinitesimal spheres many magnitudes smaller than neutrino? Might Langlands programs, string-and M-theory and so many others fill in the gap between the Planck scale and particle phenomenology?
Twelve questions!?! That is certainly a bit much for the first contact with you. Plus, the timing is off. But I am hopeful that you can forgive my “not-so-youthful” indiscretions and you might answer a question or two.
Again, I thank you.
Warmly,
Bruce
PS. While reading the Inference article, Counting in the Dark, I asked myself, “I wonder if that spin state has ever been linked to the Fourier Transform at the Planck scale… I’ll do a search.” Also, I realize how much foolishness this will all appear given your deep history with bosons and your comments:
- “The fundamental building blocks of the universe can only be bosons and fermions.”
- “…that there is no intrinsic scale within quantum theory to distinguish the very small from the very big.” The Central Mystery of Quantum Mechanics, Ghose, 2009, Page 8
May we agree to disagree? -BEC
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