TO: Andrew Strominger, Harvard Physics, Director of Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, High Energy Theory Group, 475 Jefferson, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Article, w(1+infinity) and the Celestial Sphere, 2021
ArXiv (218+): F-Theory in Scientific American, 2019; The Universe as a Quantum Encoder (PDF), 2022 and your homepage(s), also found at Harvard–Radcliffe Institute, InspireHEP, Wikipedia Video: PBS, YouTube: Time is an illusion, 2023, Zenith Award, 2010.

This page: https://81018.com/strominger/

Third email: 17 March 2025 (updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. Andrew Strominger,

Pi (π) gets plenty of recognition but little new in-depth analysis. Phi (φ) gets less. The square root of 2 (√2) gets engaged by specialists. And, Euler’s number (e) is understood by fewer specialists. The irrationals may well be incommensurable, but if taken together those four just may embody an intrinsic geometry, the four hexagonal plates of the octahedron. If they do, it all happens back around the Planck scale. Speculative? Of course, but I think it is worth some consideration. No experts have yet responded to me, so I turned to Grok: https://81018.com/irrationals/

To date, I have discussed it in these last four homepages:
• Pi Day 2025: https://81018.com/pi-day-2025/
• Today’s homepage: https://81018.com/incommensurable/
• Breakthrough: https://81018.com/breakthrough/ https://81018.com/breakthrough-indeed/ • Symphony: https://81018.com/symphony/

Your comments would be most welcomed. Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

PS. If you have any updates-changes-deletions within our page about your work, just say the word. That page is: https://81018.com/strominger/ 
An evolving page: https://81018.com/harvard/ -BEC

Second email: August 11, 2023 @ 4 PM

I am settling in on your work, w(1+infinity) and the Celestial Sphere, 2021. Thank you. -BEC

First email: July 18, 2023 @ 7 AM (TZ 18) (updated)

Dear Prof. Dr. Andrew Strominger,

On our website there is an image of Joe Polchinski, Breakthrough Prize 2017. It was posted on July 27, 2021. Of course, you and Cumrun Vafa are also pictured. I thought at the time that we would meet up again and I’d then learn about who you are. The time is now, happening this week. Vafa’s comment about Planck-scale physics had become the headline for a homepage.

The JWST’s confirmation of the Hubble and Planck ESA results have opened good questions about the big bang theory as currently understood; it seems easier to suggest that we go back to Ground-0 and start, tabula rasa, with a couple of questions: “Can PlanckTime, PlanckLength, PlanckMass and PlanckCharge render the first manifestation of thingness and create the first moment of space-time? What might that thing look like?”

As a backgrounder, I grew up in and around the Harvard campus. While in high school I was a member of Harvard’s SDS. I got recruited in 1964 during an “All-night Teach-in” at Memorial Hall. From 1970-to-1973, I was active with Arthur Loeb and his Philomorphs who met in the attic space of Sever Hall (Bucky Fuller was a member). Later, In 1975 Arthur McGill of HDS would walk me and eight other graduate students through Austin Farrer’s Finite and Infinite. Today I’ve defined infinity in terms of pi (π): (1) its never-ending, never-repeating numbers (continuity), (2) its spheres (symmetry) and (3) its spin, periodicity, and dynamics of the Fourier Transform (harmony). In 2011 we emerged with our first mathematically-defined chart of the universe using base-2 from the PlanckLength. In 2014 we added Planck Time. In 2015 we added Planck Charge and Planck Mass. In 2016 we laid it our horizontally so we could more readily follow the numbers.

It was our homegrown STEM tool.  

I am hoping that you might help us unfold this base-2 chart of the universe: https://81018.com/chart/ The current homepage is always my latest struggle with it all: https://81018.com/

Thank you.

Most sincerely,

Bruce

PS. Note that at the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, we have been following the work of Lisa Randall and Howard Georgi. and we’ve now started following you and Cumrun Vafa.

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For more: There are key research centers around the world engaged in work about quantum gravity, Loop Quantum Gravity and spin networks. We’ve attempted to identify a few of their leading scholars: Gerard ‘t Hooft, Juan Maldacena, Leonard Susskind, and Edward Witten, yet there are so many others including: Ivan Agullo, Jan Ambjørn, Abhay Ashtekar, Aurélien Barrau, John W. Barrett, M. Blagojević, Eugenio Bianchi, Martin Bojowald, Alejandro Corichi, Louis Crane, Bianca Dittrich, Michael Duff, Laurent Freidel, Rodolfo Gambini, Marc Geiller, Simone Giombi,  Steven Gubser, Monica Guică, Thomas Hartman, Gary T. Horowitz, Sabine Hossenfelder, Ingo Kirsch, Igor Klebanov, Jerzy Lewandowski, Alexander Polyakov, Jorge Pullin, Aldo Riello, Carlo Rovelli, Đàm Thanh Sơn, Parampreet Sing, Wei Song, Andrei Starinets, Andrew Strominger, Wolfgang Wieland… And, that list goes on and on.

2017 Breakthrough Prize, December 4, 2016: At the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., the award was shared by three physicists Andrew Strominger (Harvard), second from left, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), second from right, and Joseph Polchinski, center. At the far left and far right are the astronauts Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly (Scott’s twin brother), who presented the award. Photo Credit: Peter Barreras/Associated Press. For more, go to: http://fqxi.org/grants/large/awardees/view/__details/2010/strominger

Also see: PBS: Blackholes and Hawking-Strominger-Perry

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