On following the work of Joseph Ivor Silk

TO: Joseph I. Silk, William H. Miller III, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Room 366, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 Also: Gresham Professor of Astronomy, London; Homewood Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Senior Fellow, Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology, Department of Physics,University of Oxford; Research scientist, Service d’Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay; and Research scientist, Institut d’Astrophysique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your extensive publications in ArXiv (465) especially The Cosmic Microwave Background (2002), Swampland Revisited (2023), Feedback by Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies (2017), Challenges in Cosmology from the Big Bang to Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation (2016), Planck evidence for a closed Universe and a possible crisis for cosmology(Nov. 2019), and Simplified galaxy formation (2017), also your books especially The Infinite Cosmos, Oxford University Press (2006) and your homepage(s): AIP Interview with Alan Lightman, 1988 (inspirational), Balzan Prize: Pioneering work on the infant universe, and Wikipedia.

Leading expert: Theoretical cosmology, dark matter, galaxy formation, cosmic microwave background radiation, homogeneities in the cosmic microwave background and density fluctuations in the matter of the early universe. A damping effect has become known as Silk damping. Our reference page: https://81018.com/silk-joseph/ 

Most recent and fifth email: 7 April 2025

Dear Prof. Dr. Joseph Silk:

I’ve wasted your time in the past; I’ll keep this short. Our homogeneities begin with the four irrational numbers within a totally mathematical model of the universe. It renders results in a less hypothetical way. March 4: Breakthrough! https://81018.com/breakthrough/
AI involved: https://81018.com/irrationals/ Current work to clarify: https://81018.com/symphony/

If you have an extra moment, I would enjoy hearing your comments.

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

Fourth email: Oct 20, 2020 at 2:35 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Joseph Silk,

I thought you would want to know that I updated your Wikipedia page so your Balzan Prize link was not to the wayback machine, but to your Balzan page.

I am also updating our page of references to you and your work: https://81018.com/silk-joseph/

I read your AIP interview with Alan Lightman from 1988. Very moving. You and I started in much the same way. You were obviously a much better student. In the mid-sixties in the USA, I was too involved with politics and social action.  But, I never gave up the quest to understand more about how it all works together.

The current top-level post has a reference to you and your 2017 work with Melchiorri and di Valentino: https://81018.com/the-three/#Silk I am still struggling with it!

Best wishes to you always,

-Bruce

PS.  It would be great if you had your own special page where you could hold Zoom lectures for all your admirers. https://www.josephsilk.com/ is up for grabs! It had been taken by a senator and his wife and eight children from Oklahoma!   -BEC

Third email: Thursday, April 9, 2020

Dear Prof. Dr. Joseph Silk:

  1. Could Planck Time and the other Planck base units be the first moment of time?
  2. Can we force them to be? …what does the universe look like?
  3. Could an infinitesimal sphere be the first expression of a thing? …a  little like Wheeler’s quantum foam or geon?
  4. Could a type of aether and a natural inflation be created by an endless stream of spheres? 

I suspect I would hear four definitive answers: “No.”  …but maybe not?  I’ve explored it here: https://81018.com/uni-verse/ and the current homepage:  http://81018.com

I wish you well and continued good health.

Warmly,

Bruce

PS. I did some name-dropping in that homepage when referencing the 1999 Structure Formation conference at INI of Cambridge University. Of course, you attended that conference and I linked that reference to our resource page about your work: https://81018.com/joseph-silk/ (this page)

Second email: January 9, 2019 (Updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. Joseph Silk:

Base-2 notation from the Planck units to the Age of the Universe requires just 202 notations. The first 64 notations provide a perfect little outline for a sub-grid mathematical physics whereby Langlands, Wilczek et al (with 31 dimensionless constants), Rees (Just Six Numbers), Weinberg, Witten and a rather sizable group of others might find a few helpful numbers to interpret.

Of course, I thank you for all your very brilliant work over the years.

Ours is a high school study of the Planck base units. At the 67th notation we found unusual numbers:
2.38509×10-15 meters with a mass of 3.211962×1012 kg
276.789 coulombs within a duration of 7.9563×10-24 seconds

We have so much to learn; so again, I wanted to thank you for all that you do and for your most recent writings and lectures.

Most sincerely,
Bruce
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First email:  January 11, 2017, 10:21 PM

RE: High school geometry and physics classes to make your 20 December 2016 paper a target for study for the rest of this school year.

Dear Prof. Dr. Joseph Silk:

Thank you for your up-to-the-minute accounting of issues facing astrophysics and cosmology. Though published in 2017, it’s still current.

We are quite idiosyncratic and we need as much guidance as we can find to show us where we went wrong in December 2011. That is when we backed into a very simple model of the universe using base-2 notation, i.e. exponentiation from the Planck base units to the Age of the Universe in just 202 doublings, steps, or groups. 

Might you enjoy receiving an update on our results as we work through your “Challenges in Cosmology” — https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.09846v2.pdf — and your other ArXiv submissions? Thank you.

Most sincerely,
Bruce

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