TO: Hugh David Politzer, Caltech, Pasadena, California
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your articles in the Phys. Rev. Letters 30 (1973), Phys. Rep. 14 (1974), your manyarXiv (26) articles, your homepages especially at the American Academy, inSPIRE^HEP, Michigan, Nobel, Wikipedia, and YouTube.

Second email: 24 February 2026

Dear Prof. Dr. H. David Politzer:

Back four years ago, I sent a heartfelt email to you. It was the story of our high school class following embedded geometries (tetrahedrons and octahedrons) right down inside to the Planck scale. Using the Planck base units to return the same 112 steps back to the classroom, it was expedition beyond space and time. We didn’t know it at the time; we were learning so much about base-2, Max Planck, Einstein, embedded geometry, Euler, the tetrahedron, the octahedron… a firehose filled with new information.

We didn’t know it was idiosyncratic. Being up river from Loyola and Tulane, our graduates brought their copies of “the big board-little universe” into class where their professors asked, “What’s this?” The professors hadn’t seen a base-2 expansion of the universe. Nobody would touch it. Countered the big bang. Opened questions that couldn’t be answered. Raised tensions. All but one of our boards of the Quiet Expansion was removed from school. If anybody was curious, a little history lesson was told.

Now we are writing a new chapter.

In March 2025 in an early conversation with Grok, we asked about the other primary irrational numbers; we had been studying pi (π) and a little about phi (X), but were not familiar with Euler’s number (e) or the place of the square root of 2(X). Because the three were so close to infinity, we asked about continuity-symmetry-harmony and then it hit me; “Those are the four hexagonals that stabilize infinitesimal spheres.” By July we had a dynamic graphic to demonstrate.

For the first time in 45 years, I attended an academic conference, PASCOS-30 (Pran Nath-Northeastern) at Durham’s IPPP ( Michael Spannowsky). As a result, my conversations with the leading AI tools expanded and increased. By January 2026 we were in conversation with six. I was asking about the cogency of a State of the Universe; “How should we go about it?” Our first result was this homepage: https://81018.com/2026-state-of-the-universe-d/ first formally posted on 18 February 2026.

Our six AI systems commented on this work: https://81018.com/official-statement/

Well, what do we do now? Can you help us?

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

First email: 29 November 2022 at 4:41 PM (updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. H. David Politzer:

In December 2012 I approached Frank Wilczek with a peculiar question about a path our high school geometry classes had followed deep inside the tetrahedron and the octahedron within it. Dividing the edges by 2, connecting the new vertices, we went down 45 steps to particle physics, and then 67 more steps to the Planck scale numbers. We turned around, using the Planck numbers, multiplied by 2 and in 112 steps we were back in our classroom and in another 90 steps we were well over 13.79+ billion years and a size just a little under some “estimates” of the current size of the universe.

That first chart quickly became the fourth chart for our working numbers. 202.34 base-2 notations had mapped the universe: http://81018.com/stem/

Pi and her continuity-symmetry-harmony became our penultimates. It changed everything:
1. There is an infinitesimal domain for perfected states in space-time.
2. There is a geometry for fluctuations.
3. In time, I am confident it will shine a new light on asymptotic freedom.

I thought you might find these links among all the idiosyncratic ones out there to be a challenge. It’s banjo physics all over again, “Just pick it up and play…” It’s mixed metaphors with pineapples and Hussey’s songs cutting through icy caverns.

That’s enough already!

If you are still with this old man (75), it’s your turn!

Warmly,

Bruce

PS.  I am hearing challenged; there’s a bit too much sound competition within your recording of The Simple Harmonic Oscillator. Are your lyrics posted anywhere? -BEC

*From his reflections on banjo physics, Hugh David Politzer (HDP) tells this story:

In August 1914, twenty year old Leonard Hussey joined Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole. In October 1915, their ship was ground to bits by ice floes. Escaping on lifeboats, the crew members were restricted to two pounds of personal belongings. But Shackleton insisted that Hussey also bring his banjo, saying, “We must have that banjo. It is vital mental medicine.” Eventually, Shackleton set out with a small party to get a rescue ship for his stranded crew. On August 30, 1916, all were saved — with no loss of life.

The walnut instrument in the photo is from the same manufacturer and essentially the same model as Hussey’s, only about thirty years newer.

Simple Harmonic Oscillator:
https://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/751.mf1i.fall02/SimpleHarmOsc.htm