Upon learning about the work of Matt Mountain

TO: Matt Mountain, president, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) ; Director, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, 2005 – 2015; Telescope Scientist, NASA James Webb Space Telescope; Member, Webb Science Working Group; Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University and University of Oxford
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: ArXiv (5):JWST-TST DREAMS: Quartz Clouds in the Atmosphere of WASP-17b, Oct 2023; Homepage(s): LinkedIN, Vitae, Wikipedia

This page: https://81018.com/mountain

Second email: Saturday, November 11, 2023 @ 8 AM

Dear Prof. Dr. Charles Mattias Mountain, 

I can well imagine that with all the activity around the JWST, you are swamped with communications. Although the thrust of new research seems to be focusing on the Standard Model and Lambda CDM, shouldn’t there also be some encouragement to re-examine the first principles of big bang cosmology? Shouldn’t all possible avenues be explored? Might you agree?

I am 76 and like all who reach this age, mental acuity is closely monitored. One way I do that is to keep a record of everyone with whom I communicate. That record reminds me not to write too often and allows me to assess what I remembered from the near past. If ever you’d like to publicly respond, I am glad to add that but only with your permission. My CMM page is here: https://81018.com/mountain/. Thank you.

Best wishes,

Bruce

First email: Sunday, August 20, 2023 @ 11:07 AM (updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. Charles Mattias Mountain, 

I thank you for your most-prodigious work-of-a-lifetime and especially for your participation in the July 11, 2022 article in Scientific American, “See the Oldest View of Our Known Universe, Just Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope”  That article was my introduction to you and your work:  

“The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago. And then the Hubble sees back to roughly 13.5 billion years. But they see all these galaxies. How did you go from nothing to galaxies? Something must have happened, but we can’t see into that period. It’s designed to peer into a part of the universe we have never seen before–the so-called dark ages, when everything must have happened, when the first galaxies came to existence, the first stars came into life, the first black holes appeared.”

Now, I hope you don’t regret making those comments. The most strident defenders of the Big Bang theory are a bit reminiscent of Orwell’s thought police. Ignoring them for the moment, could a “primeval atom” be defined by natural units? Might it be an infinitesimal sphere? 

Scholars say, “…after the Big Bang.” And, that preconditions our thoughts and contexts our thinking in light of Lemaître, Hawking and Guth. Might Lemaître’s “hypothesis of the primeval atom” be more simply natural units, dimensionless constants, and a natural inflation? Max Planck defined his base units around 1899 (while George Johnstone Stoney defined similar numbers in 1874). Assuming as much, in our bittersweet naïveté in 2011, we mapped the universe all within 202 base-2 notations.  It’s a fascinating chart and the first 64 notations may hold many very special keys.

Possible?

Thank you.

Warmest regards,

Bruce
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Bruce. E. Camber
https://81018.com/bec/

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