TO: Scott Montgomery, AIP, Physics Ellipse Drive, College Park, MD 20740
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: As Chief Content Officer at AIP
First email: June 8, 2022, 11:59 PM
Dear Scott:
Back in 2001, Frank Wilczek wrote three articles for Physics Today, all titled “Scaling Mt. Planck” each with unique subtitles. They were very good.. When he won the Nobel (with Gross and Politzer) in 2004, those PT articles became priceless! Planck’s base units had been grossly undervalued.
I met with Wilczek in his MIT office on a brisk January day in 2013. He encouraged us to continue learning about Planck’s special numbers.
We had mapped the universe by going deeper and deeper inside the tetrahedron and its octahedron. We had scholars help us figure out where to stop on the small side (Planck Length) and how far out to get on the edges of the universe. And to say the least, we continued studying Planck’s numbers.
Yet, the more we learned, the more we understood how it was that physics had been spinning its wheels as if on ice. Incrementalism doesn’t solve big problems. That’s the domain of a paradigm shift. Lots of folks shift a little. Witten, Langlands, Rovelli perhaps shifted more, but still their wheels continue to spin.
First, we have to tuck linear time within a system that recompiles it on a regular basis, like a sleep cycle, so we have a relatively symmetric universe. For us, that system was defined by taking Euler’s base-2 work and applying it to Planck’s work. We did that in 2011 and ended up encapsulating the universe in just 202 notations. That came out of our high school geometry classes in New Orleans in December 2011.
It’s been ten years now. For my friends who ask, “How do you verify any of your conjectures?”, I wrote up: https://81018.com/validate/ More recently, From Perfected States to Gaps & Fluctuations. Also: Eight Initial Conditions, Answering “Yes” starts a paradigm shift, and today’s homepage — https://81018.com/ — brings you current.
It’s a stretch and it certainly isn’t incrementalism! Perhaps you will see some value within our work!
Thank you.
Warmly,
Bruce