Our Best Scholars Need Us

by Bruce Camber

Even our best academic minds are imperfect; they have limitations and flaws. Like the rest of us, they grasp only a fraction of the really-real realities of life. So it is incumbent on the rest of us to ask them questions, perhaps even to challenge their insights and wisdom. If we get lucky, maybe we can help fill in a few of the blanks and gaps in our knowledge of this universe.

The simple logic [1,2] within the base-2 numbers [3]. Although quite compelling to me, these numbers have yet to be critically reviewed by our leading scholars. Articles, rejected by peer-reviewed publications, are posted here on the web. As a result of reading work about natural inflation and the writing of two inflationary scholars, Alan Guth (MIT) and Andrei Linde (Stanford), I am challenged more than ever to discern the relations between our base-2 chart and special relativity and quantum mechanics. I invite your assistance. Can you help us?

I believe the potential for new insight is within the nature of space and time and its relation to infinity. All open questions, the very nature of space, time and infinity are still hotly debated. Yet, every segment of science relies on space-and-time measurements and the concept of infinity. Today, let us focus on space and time.

First, there is a commonsense view. Time is past, present, and future; and, space is defined by three dimensions: height, width and depth. Of course, there is a certain truth within our commonsense views, but these truths are relative and personal and do not apply universally. In a rather unusual sense of the word, it is as if we each create our own universe.

The arguments throughout history about space and time are contentious. And, our best scholars and scientists just may be wrong. Though it goes back to the beginning of recorded history, one of the most robust debates began in 1715 between Sir Isaac Newton (through his assistant, Samuel Clarke) and Gottfried Leibniz. They framed the problems; they never resolved dispute.[4] Then Einstein and Max Planck came along and space-and-time got even more confusing. I am of the mind that they all understood it so incompletely, our concept of space-time is now holding up science and holding us all back!

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Top Stories

Big Bang Boom Is Over
• Is A Quiet Expansion possible?
• Is there an implosion already underway?
• Correspondence: Hawking, Guth and Andrei Linde
• Correspondence: Director General, CERN, GenevaOpen for your comments:
• Finite and Infinite: What’s the question?
• Quiet Expansion of the Universe: Learning from scholars like Frank Wilczek (MIT) and Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Studies) can be intimidating. Trying not to be overwhelmed by their expertise, we shift our focus from particles to systems.
• #1 Top Ten (updated as a result of reader’s input)
• We Live Like Kings and Queens
• The Numbers: A horizontally-scrolled chart with 12 rows and 204 columns which makes up 34-pages side-by-side, and over 2000 blocks of information to analyze and eventually to understand.
• More Numbers: The Universe From Scratch
• Value values, ethics and integrity
• Big Bang: #10 Bully #9 False Start #8 Hot head
• Politics and the mind

Help Wanted
Letters/emails:
Your Questions/Our Answers: Ask a question, especially about the chart, and we will attempt to answer it!
To the Top Guns of Physics & Cosmology
Tweets:
To Our Global Pop Stars & Others: An appeal to Katy Perry, “Become a spokesperson. Spread the word.”

News / Research
QuietExpansion.com opens for business: There are many websites associated with these efforts. Most attempt to capture historical moments in time and to analyze its possible role within academic work. There hasn’t been a place for personal reflections. That changes today.

Universe View: What is your expertise? There are many blanks; and all cells — over 2000 of them — will always be “under construction.”