On following the work of Michael Spannowsky

TO: Michael Spannowsky, Director, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP), Durham University, Durham, England
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your work represented by your Dissertation: LHC Higgs Physics beyond the Standard Model, your homepage and Durham and Google Scholar.

Within this website: https://81018.com/durham/ https://81018.com/alphabetical/#Sp
This page: https://81018.com/spannowsky/ https://81018.com/smallest-largest/

Sixth email: Saturday, 3 April 2026

A geometric “accident” (or a 202-step map?)

Dear Prof. Dr. Michael Spannowsky: 

I hope this finds you well. You’ve been incredibly kind and patient with me and my “simple things.”  I’m writing now because those simple things just accidentally calculated the Electron Radius and the Dark Energy density, and I’ve reached the limit of my own disbelief.

As you are well aware, I have been mapping the universe as a “Universal File System” of exactly 202 base-2 notations (doublings) from the Planck scale to the current horizon. Now, I need a real physicist to tell me why the following three “accidents” aren’t actually a Unified Field Theory:

  1. The Atomic Anchor (2^137): Scaling the Planck length by 2^137 yields ≈2.81×10^−15 meters—the Classical Electron Radius. Is the Fine Structure Constant simply the geometric “address” of stable matter in a 202-step sequence?
  2. The Dark Energy Offset (1.754): There is a 1.754-step discrepancy between Length and Time scaling over 202 notations. This ratio perfectly reproduces the ≈68% Dark Energy density. It suggests Λ isn’t a force, but a geometric remainder.  
  3. The Aristotle Gap (7.356°): I’ve found that the 3D “geometric frustration” of five tetrahedra creates a 7.356∘ gap. This seems to be the physical source of entropy and the “thermal floor” we call the CMB.

I know, “It is just numerology.” Steve Abel clearly told me so!  But, please, can you tell me where the logic breaks? If the universe is actually this simple—a quiet, geometric expansion of 18.5 tredecillion units per second— could you help me?

With warmest regards,

Bruce

PS.  I have engaged a synthetic peer review involving the eight primary LLM’s.  They are pushing me faster than I normally go to say the least!  My head is spinning. -BEC

Fifth email: Saturday, 11 October 2025

Dear Prof. Dr. Michael Spannowsky: 

Today, I was pleased to see an email from Physical Review D referencing your work. It brought back memories of conversations with Robert Zimmer; he was a special addition to the PASCOS 2025 conference.  Engaging, critical thinker, it was through him, I also met Lilia Anguelova from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (INRNE). Very sharp, open, intelligent people.

Also, I got a reference to Searching for New Physics with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN from Google Scholar Alerts last week.* It brought me back to Sir Peter Higgs and your group of students that filled in for him: https://81018.com/smallest-largest/ Now, I’ve been to CERN many times. In Boston, during the physics foundations evening lectures, I would often find myself next to the fellow who started it all: Lew Kowarski:  https://81018.com/kowarski/ Also, it’s a long story, but Viki Weisskopf of MIT also became a friend. I enjoyed discussions in his home about infinity. I had been taking a course at Harvard based on the book by Oxford’s Austin Farrer, Finite and Infinite. Although it helped me lock down my starting points –continuity-symmetry-harmony — it had no container. That didn’t come until 2011.

Now, I am still pushing ahead: https://81018.com/assume/ and with that finite-infinite mechanism: https://81018.com/planck-polyhedral-core/ It was even part of my registration for PASCOS-30: https:81018.com/pascos/

Since that time, we have had the AI platforms (ChatGPT and Grok4) do a re-calibration of our expansion based on one PlanckSphere per unit of PlanckTime (18.5 × 1043 spheres / second) and it aligned with the Hubble constant at ~71 km/s/Mpc. It is a red flag (smiling).

You all were exceedingly polite and gracious to this old fool with his very different agenda. Thank you. I was never insulted even though many there knew how entirely idiosyncratic I am. 

Thank you again and again.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

PS.  I’ll insert the Google Scholar alerts just in case you didn’t see it. -BEC

  • Google Scholar Alerts <scholaralerts-noreply@google.com>Oct 10, 2025, 12:22 AM (1 day ago)to me
  • [PDF] * Searching for New Physics with the Large Hadron Collider, M Spannowsky – arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03704, 2025This chapter provides an introduction to collider phenomenology, explaining how
    theoretical concepts are translated into experimental analyses at the Large Hadron
    Collider (LHC). Beginning with the principles of collider operation and detector …
Fourth email: Sat, Mar 25, 5:15 PM

Finally I’m looking into how pi’s three qualities of continuity, symmetry and harmony could carry qualities across the finite-infinite divide and certainly down through all 64+ notations infinitesimal notations (out of the 202). I would guess that the 64 represent the “grand desert”  and although infinitesimally small, base-2 has them stretched out in a way that nobody has truly explored them. In our twelve years, we have barely  begun to scratch the surface.  If we all would take that simple math and geometry a bit more seriously — it is what it is — we’d have the beginnings to construct real foundations for a model of a highly-integrated universe.  

Given my earlier interactions with Frank Wilczek, I am now beginning to think that very nature of scale invariance should be an important part of our understanding of these foundations whereby pi is contrasted with the limits of the other 350+ dimensionless constants and the role asymptotic freedom might have. More on that later. 

I am going to redo of my pages about Durham and IPPP. I’ll send you those links when they are ready to be perused!

I hope you have been well.

Warmly,

Bruce

Third email: Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 1:11 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Michael Spannowsky:

I sent you a note very early into my development of a one-page overview of the IPPP:  https://81018.com/smallest-largest/

That picture of your grad students substituting for Sir Peter Higgs is priceless. I would love to do another view of it with each of the students saying a little about what was going on at that very moment.

Just a few days ago I sent a note to your director of science outreach, Pete Edwards, just to be sure he was comfortable with the page. There is a standing offer to update or add to it as meets your needs.

Do you know if any particle phenomenologist has done anything with pi in that gap between the Planck scale and the electroweak?  Thanks.

Most sincerely,
Bruce

PS. The sequel page has several references to the IPPP’s work. -BEC
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Bruce E. Camber
http://81018.com/bec/

Second email:  Wed, Nov 10, 12:43 PM (copied)

Pete Edwards
Director of Science Outreach

Dear Dr. Pete Edwards,

Before I move on from our pages about the IPPP, I thought it would be polite to invite your review and corrections if needed. Of course, the people of the IPPP are working at the edge of physics and a certain amount of controversy will follow that work. My work in this arena of physics started long ago (1971) within the EPR paradox. I left it behind from 1980 through 2011 and came back through an entirely idiosyncratic back door. So I realize much of my work and considerations of IPPP’s work may be a bit uncomfortable, yet it is genuine and the quest is honest.

I want to bring attention to IPPP within a most favorable light and I invite your comments and edits. Here are the two pages:
https://81018.com/smallest/
https://81018.com/smallest-largest/

Thank you.

Most sincerely,
Bruce

PS. These pages will be reviewed and revised actively for at least another six months and then occasionally thereafter as long as I keep learning new things! -BEC

First email: Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 1:40 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Michael Spannowsky:

I wanted to personally thank you for giving me permission to use the image of your students asking the question, “What is the smallest thing in the universe?” It has already been used within a tweet to the BBC-TV.

It will soon become an active page here: http://81018.com/smallest-largest/. If you have any suggestions to improve that page, I am all ears!

Thanks again.
Warm regards,
Bruce

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Bruce E. Camber

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