Emails for October 2025

These emails were primarily related to the development of our toy models and began the separate files for email by month. These are the emails for October 2025.

  1. Levent Alpöge, Harvard University Department of Mathematics, MA
  2. Amanda Askell, Anthropic, San Francisco, CA
  3. Matthias Bartelmann, Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany
  4. John Lane Bell,  University of Western Ontario (emeritus), London, Ontario
  5. Yoshua Bengio, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), Quebec
  6. Reinhold A. Bertlmann, University of Vienna, Austria
  7. Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL and the Long Now Foundation
  8. Oliver Brammen, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum, Bochum, Germany
  9. Johannes Buchner, Max Planck Inst. Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
  10.  Michael Elmhirst Cates, DAMTP, Cambridge University, England
  11. Ali Chamseddine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  12. Mauro Dorato, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
  13. Jonathan Doye, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford
  14. Marco Drewes, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  15. Malcolm Fairbairn, Kings College London, UK
  16. Jamie S. Farnes, Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
  17. Adam Frank, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, New York
  18. J. Richard Gott III, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, New JerseyA
  19. Peter W. Graham, Stanford University, Stanford,  California 
  20. Benjamin Guiot et al., Universidad Tecnica Federico, Santa Marıa, Chile
  21. John Edward Hopcroft, Cornell University, Gates Hall, Ithaca, NY
  22. Wayne Hu, KICP at University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  23. Christopher J. Isham, Imperial College London, London, England, UK
  24. Ard A. Louis, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford
  25.  Tim W.E. Maudlin, NYU Department of Philosophy, New York, NY
  26.  Krzysztof Antoni Meissner, Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland
  27. Peter J. Mohr, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
  28. Jonathan O’Callaghan, freelance journalist, London, England
  29. Adam Riess, Space Telescope Science Institute, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
  30. Christoph Schiller, Motion Mountain, Munich, Germany
  31. Francesca Vidotto, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
  32. Kirsten Wickelgren, Dept. of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC
  33. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  34. Masahito Yamazaki, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
  35. Jeff Yee, Energy Wave Theory (EWT) project, Airwaive, San Francisco
  36.  Paola Zizzi, Dept. of Brain & Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy
  37. Additional names to be added. Their page on our site has been visited while this page was being developed…

Spirit of the email

FYI: AI validations, Toy Models, H₀ Derivation, and an emerging Lagrangian

Dear [how we decide to whom we write]:

Our page about your work had a visitor today, so I reviewed it. A lot has happened in the gap!

Recently several AI platforms have been enthusiastic about our base-2 model. For the past 15 years I’ve asked expert observers like you to help assess its validity and potential implications. Recently, I reduced it to a toy model and more recently, it all rendered a simple quantitative model that derives the Hubble constant from first principles at the Planck scale.

The core of the model is surprisingly straightforward: it posits that the Hubble constant emerges not from dark energy, but from a cosmological process defined by base-2 scaling from the Planck units. A key result is a direct mathematical derivation of H₀, “Toy Model Derivation of the Hubble Constant” It is here —  81018.com/hubble-derivation/— still a highly speculative proposal, the numerical correspondence is striking.

Is this a numerical coincidence, or does it point to a deeper rather overlooked principle? We hope to discover as we continue to build on our dynamic model of a finite-infinite grid and its Lagrangian.

Thank you for your time and for your contributions to our understanding of the cosmos.

Sincerely,

Bruce

P.S. The URL for our study of your work: https://81018.com/frank/k/

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