TO: Juan M. Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your articles such as Entanglement and the Geometry of Spacetime, and your many ArXiv (174) articles such as Eternal traversable wormhole, and even your many different “homepages” such as your CV, your Talks, even Wikipedia and INspire (most cited, 1997-2018 (15,000+), The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity; Int.J.Theor.Phys. 38 (1999) 1113–1133; and your YouTube videos such as Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime (2018) (scroll to 1:31, beginning of lecture) July 20, 2010, AdS/CFT should be called “Quantum Field Theory / Quantum Gravity Duality / Gauge Gravity Duality.”

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Fifth email: 23 February 2026 (updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. Juan Maldacena:

There was a visitor today to our page about your work on our website. If ever you would like to add-change-delete anything on that page, please let me know. When a visitor lands on one of our pages, I sometimes take it as an opportunity to update the page and write to the scholar. I’ve sometimes checked to report how often that page has been visited.

I sent a note to Martin Rees yesterday: “…six major AIs did an assessment of the 202 base-2 notations. They concurred! This home page is one of the results.

I think you’ll be intrigued, maybe mystified. Gell-Mann said that our problem is getting heard..”(believed and taken seriously). Just maybe we’ll get heard!

Sincerely,
Bruce

Fourth email: 27 February 2024

Dear Prof. Dr. Juan Maldacena:

There is no consensus about what happens in the very first seconds of the universe. Also, there is no discussion and no consensus that base-2 is the de facto exponential expansion of the universe. If we apply base-2 to Planck Time (take it as a given to be the first moment of time), there are 143 notations to the first second. There are just 59 more base-2 notations to the current time. This scale introduces physics at the shortest length-and-time and uses base-2 exponentiation to go to the physics at the largest length-and-time. Few people are aware of those 143 notations to the first second and all 202 notations from the first moment of time to the current time.

Many scholar-scientists would immediately discount it as irrelevant. I don’t think you will. Your comments about the derivation of the spectrum of fluctuations is germaine. It’s ironic that Max Planck gave us the foundations for quantum theory and also foundations for perfected states in space time. Those first 64 notations are smooth and I believe we will find that pi (π) will also give us an introduction to perfected states in space-time just prior to the geometries of fluctuations.

Paradigm shifts are difficult. Yet, the recent data from the JWST tell us that one is imminent.

Of course, your unedited, most-direct comments are invited and relished! Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

PS I have posted my prior emails along with an introduction to your work: https://81018.com/maldacena/#Recent Although that is my primary page about your work, I have cited you within the current homepage — https://81018.com/reformat/ — in three places: a link to string and M-theory: https://81018.com/reformat/#Maldacena, among my emails this month: https://81018.com/reformat/#Emails, particularly my February emails.

Thanks again for all that you do to move scholarship forward. –BEC

Third email: 11 March 2021 @ 4:56 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Juan Maldacena:

Does pi have a role of within emergence, especially the first moments and seconds of the universe?

Max Planck’s base units were ostensibly ignored for over 100 years. Today, we recognize their reality notwithstanding those four numbers could radically change our understanding of things with these four working assumptions:

1. The four Planck base units manifest as a basic building block that is an infinitesimal sphere many orders of magnitude smaller than neutrinos.
2. This sphere is further defined by pi, cubic-close packing of equal spheres and the Fourier Transform.
3. Planck Time, 5.391 16(13)×10^-44 seconds, defines a rate of expansion at 539.116 tredecillion units per second.
4. Apply base-2 to that expansion and all those spheres and the universe are encapsulated within 202 notations, the first 64 being well-below the reach of measuring devices. Notation-1 is the first sphere and it is the first moment in time. The current time is within Notation-202. A chart of those numbers encapsulates everything, everywhere, for all time. 

We begin to learn about a new aether, dark energy and dark matter, and the basis of homogeneity and isotropy which ultimately will help mitigate our inherent proclivity toward solipsism.

Happy Pi Day: https://81018.com/challenge/

Conclusions: The three primary facets of pi and of life — continuity, symmetry, and harmony — are the definition of the essential structure of the sphere, which ultimately give rise to the very structures of our little universe. It all starts superconductingly cold. Yes, and, these facets manifest the deepest nature of the finite and the infinite.

Warm regards,

Bruce

Second email: Thursday, June 9, 2020, 4:56 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Juan Maldacena:

Where might I find your best explanation for the very nature of quantum fluctuations? Thank you.

Warmly,

Bruce

P.S. Congratulations on the Cornell lecture (2014) that rendered these statements. Marvelous:

“You know, who would have thought that quantum mechanics has something to do with the large scale structure of the universe? It’s amazing. And actually the derivation of the spectrum of fluctuations is relatively simple. It’s really time dependent harmonic oscillator. I highly recommend to all of you to read this derivation, because it’s, I think, one of the amazing things in physics.

“Now, what I’d like to emphasize is the fact that these primordial fluctuations are nearly scale invariant. And if the universe had expanded exactly with constant acceleration there would be exactly scale invariant, but the expansion rate was slowing down a little bit and inflation eventually ended, and so they are nearly scale invariant.

“What this is saying is that the probability amplitude for having a sudden fluctuation is independent of the size of the fluctuation. So the probability of, let’s say, having a fluctuation, which is the size of the universe, and one which is a quarter of the size of the universe, is the same, if both have the same amplitude.“

First email: Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Dear Prof. Dr. Juan Maldacena:

Is it reasonable to consider Max Planck’s simple definition of time when we talk about the interior of the space-time?

Planck’s more simple formulation computes well with the experimental results. And, of course, if we were to apply base-2 notation to Planck Time, there would be a small variable as each quantity is multiplied by 2. It appears to remain within 1% throughout all 202 notations from Planck Time to the current time or age of the universe.

By inserting the other base units along this scale of the universe, the data sets become more challenging, yet the simple correspondence between length and time tells a profound story. The correspondence with mass and charge, though stretching the imagination, still retains a deep logic and continuity.

Might you comment? Just nonsense?

Thank you.

Most sincerely,
Bruce
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Bruce Camber

PS. This work started in a New Orleans high school geometry class where we chased Zeno’s paradox to the Planck Wall and then asked, “What else can we do?”
Related links: http://81018.com/c/
Chart of numbers: http://81018.com/chart/ (see line 10)
A little background story: http://81018.com/home

More references:
The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson
Juan Maldacena, 2016 Eur. J. Phys. 37 015802

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