Upon looking in on the work of Christopher Joel Smeenk…

Christopher Smeenk, Director, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy,
1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B8

ArXiv
CV: Approaching the absolute zero of time: Theory development in early universe cosmology, Doctoral Dissertation, Pittsburgh, 2003
Homepage(s): InspireHEP: References, Twitter, YouTube

First email: July 23, 2021, Re-written/resent: 23 February 2022, 11 April 2023

Dear Prof. Dr. Christopher Smeenk:

Your 2003 work lives on. The title helps. What might be involved at the absolute zero of time? Three words, time’s absolute zero, open so many debates. Congratulations. What might Stephen Hawking say? His infinitely hot Big Bang was a compression of the universe. In 1927 Lemaitre argued for a cold start (Wikipedia); by 1931 he changed and started hot. Theories continue to bounce all over the place. To my knowledge, none actually start with the Planck base units and come up to this day. We unwittingly went down that path in 2011 within a New Orleans high school. First, we had started with a tetrahedron and chased its parts smaller and smaller to the Planck base units. We then used the Planck Length for the edge of our smallest tetrahedron, multiplied by 2, and in 202 steps were out to the age and approximate size of the universe. We learned about base-2, Max Planck, George Johnstone Stoney, cubic-close packing and so much more. We were having quite a lot of fun until we learned that it didn’t work with any theories within cosmology.

If we start with the symbolic Planck base units of length-and-time, apply base-2, then go to our current time, could (or would) anything be left out?  I don’t think so…

Everything everywhere for all time: https://81018.com/empower/
There is a natural inflation: https://81018.com/ni
It has the makings of a TOE (Theory Of Everything): https://81018.com/bigtoe/
At least a good STEM tool: https://81018.com/stem/

I would enjoy your critique!  Thanks.

Warmly,

Bruce

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References along the way:

Gaining Access to the Early Universe, ed. R. Dawid, K. ‘Thebault, and R. Darshati (eds.), Why Trust A Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019), pp. 315-338

Might a Theory of Everything begin by encapsulating everything, everywhere for all time?

References:
https://indico.icranet.org/event/1/book-of-abstracts.pdf