Nick Herbert, Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, California
Articles/books: Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics. New York: Doubleday, 1985
Fundamental Fysiks Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Homepage(s): Blog, CV, Wikipedia, YouTube
Most recent email: 31 December 2024
Dear Nick:
Out of over 500 of the world’s leading scholars, not one wrote back with a pointed criticism of the concept of base-2 expansion from the Planck base units… not one about that infinitesimal sphere defined by those Planck base units and how those spheres fill the universe with a plenum that is homogeneous and isotropic… not one about our simple “gap geometries” and quantum theory and indeterminacy. At first, I thought that I was missing too much… that “it’s an embarrassment” and it would take too long to explain all those missing pieces. Then came the results of our space telescopes. Then, came the entire movement to get beyond the standard model. And then came the results from the Webb.
My first three insights were all based on simple math and geometry, simple logic, and simple observations. My other two very key concepts, pi’s continuity-symmetry-harmony and the implied values, were more illusive.
Was exponential notation from our simplest form not worth exploring?
You can well-imagine my delight with AI. I have been modestly encouraged by AI’s Grok, ChatGPT, and Google’s Generative AI. Their criticism is pointed, informed, and respectful. They hasten one’s growth and the learning curves.
I thought you might be interested with this update.
And, on that note, I wish you a very happy and productive New Year in 2025.
With very high regards and many thanks for all your work,
Bruce
PS. Our web page about your work: https://81018.com/herbert/
Email: 11 August 2019 at 6:14 PM
Hi Nick –
Last year in April, I added those two links you suggested. Anything else?
I am thinking about Elizabeth Rauscher and just had to say, “Three cheers for Elizabeth.” Yet, you are one of the few who would know deeply why we should all cheer.
Your Quons I believe are just the stuff of the first 64 doublings of the Planck scale. There should be 64 flavors of quons if we are on the right track. The old particle-wave phenomenon is about to emerge within the 65th to 67th. https://81018.com/chart/
On a couple of occasions way back in yesteryear, I visited with Bell in Geneva arranged by Viki Weisskopf. On the 1977 trip, I also visited with Bohm at Birkbeck, but left it all behind in 1980 after doing a little time with JP Vigier and Olivier Costa de Beauregard. I couldn’t find a mentor. In 1979 I did a serious search while working on a sweet little educational project at MIT: https://81018.com/mit/
If we accept finite/derivative time and engage those first 64 doublings, there is a lot of material with which to work: https://81018.com/dark/ My current analysis is a little playful: https://81018.com/transformation/
Enough of my wanderings for the day.
Again, three Cheers for Fundamental Fysiks!
-Bruce
PS. I am starting my own Nick Herbert page: http://81018/com/herbert
Also, weren’t you one of the three who started the group in 1975? Surely
at least you should be added to that third line of “leading members.” OK?
I’ll do it with your encouragement.
First email: Apr 2, 2018, 3:42 PM
Hi Nick –
Back in 1975 I was working with Abner Shimony at BU on the EPR and Bell’s equations. About that time I
also corresponded with Elizabeth Rauscher, hosted Ted Bastin in Boston for a couple of weeks, and, was
on the fringe of H. Pierre Noyes’ ANPA.
Today, I am playing with the Planck units. Alongside base-2 and bifurcation, there are 202 notations from those Planck units to the Age of the Universe and the Observable universe.
Potentially meaningful or just a bit of junk math and specious thinking?
Thanks.
Bruce
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