State of Universe in 2026

Re-engagement: The first look on February 1, 2026.
By Bruce E. Camber

1. We Are Discovering Our Mistakes.
2. Slowly, We Are Acknowledging Them.
3. We Are Rediscovering Our Perfections.

This page: https://81018.com/state-of-universe-first-draft/

Introduction. Everyone has had a moment of perfection. A moment of love. A moment of overwhelming beauty. A moment of profound insight no matter how illusive. A moment of serene bliss. Or, even atonement.

Rare. Compelling. Unforgetful. Often mysterious, these are defining moments of our life.

Then, at the other extreme, there are moments of great pain, disillusionment, betrayal and abandonment. These leave scars which are readily reopened.

Each state of our affairs marks the highs and lows of everything and everybody, from an individual to a civilization; and here, we ask you now to extend that to the universe.

Our universe from the first moment of time, measured by universals, was qualified and quantified in and around 1899 by Max Planck (among others) at ≈5.391×10⁻⁴⁴ seconds; it requires just 202 base-2 notations to include the present time. The first second of the universe is within Notation 143. The first year is within Notation 169, the first million years within 189, and the first billion within 199.

Exponential notation, one of the more fascinating qualities of which Leonhard Euler discerned in 1748, is a specially powerful-and-illusive mathematics.[1] It is best grounded by simple geometries, particularly those that are scale invariant, like the tetrahedral-octahedral coupling, i.e. there is a necessary octahedron within every perfect tetrahedron.[2] And, perfectly enclosed within an octahedron are eight tetrahedra (one within each face) and six smaller octahedra (one in each corner).[3] Generated from the sphere, these are our most-simple geometries.[4]

I. Yes, we are discovering old intellectual mistakes that hold us back and mislead us.

There are three misconceptions, that once popularly assumed, become mistakes that weigh us down individually and slow down the advance of scientific thinking. The three have been discussed ad nauseum on this website,yet they are so important, we need to go over them again and again. We’ve got to move on to more integrative ways of thinking.[5]

A. Aristotle and the Tetrahedron.[6] Aristotle thought you could tile and tessellate the universe with a tetrahedron. He obviously didn’t have perfect models of Plato’s five basic solids to learn a few basic relations. With just five tetrahedrons sharing a common edge, there is a 7.365 degree gap. Not many in the scientific community are aware of it or consider it relevant.

Yet, what if that gap is responsible for quantum fluctuations? It’s a paradigm shift.

For 1800 years Aristotle’s claim went unchallenged.[x] Once understood to be wrong in the 1400s, the next published analysis was not until 1926 when Dirk Struik from Holland published an article which he wrote in Dutch while in Rome before going to teach mathematics at MIT (Cambridge, MA). That article was cited by a few scholars, but definitely so by Lagarias & Zong in 2012. Yet, even after being recognized and cited by the AMS in 2015, there is little activity or understanding of that tetrahedral gap. There is an equally important octahedral gap and it was first cited on this website in 2022. Also, these are first citations that these gaps define a key role within the E8 architecture, particularly defining SU(3) and a key element of the structure and architecture of the earliest universe. In 2026 a major paradigm shift will pick up some speed as we discover the basis of change, creativity, and uniqueness and more people become more involved with those dynamics.

B. Newton’s absolutes begin to defer to Leibniz’s relational space and time.[x] It is a good AI question, yet in the context of 202.34 base-2 notations, each notation is always active and part of the dynamic whole. In our geometric alternative to standard Big Bang cosmology, the universe is a continuously emerging, “hyper-rational” structure. It posits time as an active agent driving the expansion from a foundational grid of Planck-length spheres, rather than a single initial singularity. Today, 202 harmonic layers are simultaneously active. In 2026, the paradigm will continue to shift in favor of a new order of the universe based on 202 coterminous redefinitions of spacetime.

C. Only the first femtoseconds of the big bang need adjustment.[x] By and large most of the work of Lemaitre, Hawking, and all their collaborators will remain. There has been very little speculation about what was happening in the seconds prior to the big bang. In 2026 all of their work will begin to be studied in new ways to grasp and begin to understand the dynamics of those earliest moments. The first seconds will be deeply defined.

II. Ever So Slowly, We’re Acknowledging Them.

Mistakes happen. Holding on to them has slowed us down, but as we increasingly embrace our mistakes, new sensibilities and possibilities open. It’s not ignorance; it’s not arrogance; it’s not even the illusion of knowledge that’s holding us back. They do; all three hold us back, but basic mistakes like those advocated by like Aristotle, Newton, and Lemaitre-Hawking (and then all their students) confuse and push our creativities us off in the wrong direction.

The foundations of quantum physics: Geometric Gaps & Density. Geometric “dissonance” (gaps of ~7.356°) arises from stacking octahedrons or tetrahedrons, acting as the seed for quantum fluctuations, particle archetypes, and dark matter halos.

The nature of spacetime. Leibniz relationaility to participatory co-creation. The framework implicates humans as observers and participants in the unfolding structure of the universe. 

Here is the very nature of the beginning of the universe.

The result: A blossoming of sensitivity to all origins, continuty-symmetry-harmony, an unleashing of order, relations, and dynamics. We can quickly forgive the mistakes of the past. We didn’t know. We had to live with those ideas until they pushed us into too many deadends.

There’ll be much more to come. This amounts to a reawakening of sensible possibility.

III. We are Finally Discovering What’s Perfect.

A. Notations-0-4: All have always been perfect. By definition, those notation have perfect continuity, symmetry and harmony. Perfection has a way of poking through the first 67 notations. There is an alignment, harmonic and symmetric, that opens the possibility of a perfected state all the way to and through Notation-202. Einstein called them wormholes. What shall we call them?

From here to where: testable predictions. The model proposes specific, verifiable, and falsifiable signatures, aimed at aligning with, or providing alternatives to, current cosmological data: 

  • CMBR Power Spectra: Gap-induced density variations are predicted to align with data from the Planck satellite.
  • Dark Matter/Large Scale Structure: The model suggests dark matter is a result of structural gaps, with predictions matching N-body simulation structures.
  • Methodology: These predictions are, in part, analyzed using AI-driven computational geometry and topological deep learning. 

IV. Forward looking

We had reached most of our conclusions prior to our engagement of Grok in December 2024. Grok was the first AI we used to check our statements. ChatGPT was the second. We had a one-year learning curve with AI. A rough draft of a homepage was first written (that’s this page). Then, I would review all prior work of the AI’s to help define “the moment.” Then, I would ask each AI for their feedback on that page.

Again that process is:

Searching for a definition — /state-of-universe-first-draft/ — is the first rough draft. Then, we compile all the data to date by the AIs to define the moment: /state-of-universe-second-draft/ Then, I would re-encounter each AI, one at a time; the results are just below. I would emerge with what I called, the working draft —  /state-of-universe-working-draft/ In this process I would be singing, “I get by with a little help from my friends.”

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