TO: K. K. Phua, Nanyang Technological University’s Institute of Advanced Studies, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd. Also:
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your work as revealed in your homepage(s) at NUS, inSpireHEP, Wikipedia, YouTube, plus your 352-page book, Frank Wilczek by Antti Niemi(ed.), Kok Khoo Phua(ed.), Alfred Shapere(ed.), Apr, 2022 (Review)
URL this page: https://81018.com/phua/
Three Key Basic Questions:
1. Why do we hold tight to an infinitely-hot big bang when a much simpler base-2 progression from the Planck base units does everything a big bang does without the strangeness and stretched logic within supercooling?
2. Why do we hold onto absolute time and space when Einstein and Planck forced them together and those equations are working so very well?
3. Why don’t we revisit the geometrical gap that Aristotle missed, move it down into the wave/particle duality and see if we can map it?
Fourth email: 1 January 2025 (lightly updated)
Dear Prof. Dr. Phua Kok Khoo:
Back in 2017 I started a reference page about your work. I included my notes to you to remind me not to write too many uninvited emails and to remind me of what I said. You have accomplished so much with your life. Me? I’ve been stuck within unanswered basic physics questions. Technology may help me to finally break through.
In the old days we would ask our professors and if they didn’t give a satisfactory answer, we would ask the best professors in our discipline. 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 I was an embarrassment for not grasping basic physics. To respond would take too long — too much time and energy — to explain everything to me. 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 good health, and a very happy and productive New Year in 2025.
With very high regards and many thanks for all your work,
Warmly,
Bruce
Third email: July 2, 2020 @ 10:55 AM
Dear Prof. Dr. Phua Kok Khoo:
What you and your wife have done in your lifetime is a story for the world to understand profoundly. How does one come up with an idea and have the audacity to pursue it? How does one have the tenacity to stick to that idea, no matter how crazy it seems (especially whenever we had to face down short-term failures and sleepless nights). At some point we are able to right yourself, re-adjust, and start to re-climb that mountain yet one more time.
We spent over 50 seasons and 16 years capturing over 300 stories like yours. They aired on PBS-TV in the USA and the VOA-TV throughout the world. For a while even CCTV-9 carried the series until we had a segment in one episode that touched on Tiananmen Square. They dropped our series like a hot potato!
The next revolution is the big one, yet it can be a quiet revolution that finally brings the major competitive ideologies under one roof and within a very integrative framework: https://81018.com/chart/ That’s a base-2 chart. Other bases can now follow.
To keep track of my note to you, I have created a place to remind me: https://81018.com/phua/
I hope you have a lovely day and weekend.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
Second email: June 27, 2020, 6:33 PM (Saturday)
Dear Prof. Dr. Phua Kok Khoo:
I struggle with answers to those base key questions (up above). We hold onto big bang cosmology in spite of all its weaknesses. We hold onto Newton’s absolutes even in the view of Einstein and Planck, and we still do not understand quantum fluctuations and the infinitesimal between the Planck scale and the wave-particle duality.
You’re a brilliant physicist. You work with the best alive today. How shall we answer those three questions above?
Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
First email: Saturday, June 24, 2017, 10:05 PM
Dear Prof. Dr. Phua Kok Kho :
As a particle physicist, you may well remember Max Planck’s calculations for natural units from 1899 to 1905. Frank Wilczek (MIT) wrote three articles, Scaling Mt. Planck, starting in 2001, for Physics Today, that opened a wider dialogue.
In 2012, by repeatedly doubling the base Planck units of Length, Time, Mass and Charge, a scripting language was created that successfully simulated the big bang epoch without the need of a “bang” per se. There are just 202 notations: https://81018.com/chart/ That simple math encapsulates everything, everywhere, for all time. Is it just a bunch of numbers or is base-2 a proper description of the expansion of the universe? There are so many open questions!
Might you be interested to take a further look?
Thank you.
Most sincerely,
Bruce
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