Last Update: Tuesday January 26, 2021

The Big Board - little universe and the Universe Table

In Search of Foundations

- Articles

- Rough Timeline:

Observations,
Conjectures and
Speculations

Editor's note:
This column is
a current work
in progress.

Articles that will always be in process:
• Basics: How'd they get here?
• Beginnings: Did a Quiet Expansion precede the Big Bang?
•  Ethics-Morals-Values: Is there an inherent Goodness
   within Science, Business, and Religion?
•  Finite or Infinite: Is That The Question?   Part II
•  Key Ideas:: Could these be more key questions?
•  Paradigm Shift: Most-simple, integrated UniverseView
•  Planck: Length-Time Chart All Five Basic Units Chart
•  Order-Continuity: Is There Order In The Universe?
•  Simplicity: Everything Starts Most Simply...
• Tiling and Tessellating the Universe
• Who, What, When, Where and Why:
    What's happening here?
• Working papers:  A catchall The S t r e t c h

Working Timeline

March 8, 2015: There is something missing. What is it? Perhaps a more simple story? Or, a press release for Scientific American? Or, a little pi?
February 27, 2015: We need to talk. If the binding, abiding principles that hold it all together are continuity (order), symmetry (relations), and harmony (dynamics) -- I think this chart is helpful -- then those first ten steps tell the story. Yes? No?
February 25, 2015: What about the first moment of the Planck Five? ...a complex singularity? ...the archetypal beginning of space-time? ...the first roll-out of Pi (TT)? Is that tension held by each, now a derivative, continuous, and the start of a "normal mode" for the cosmos, our little universe?
February 11, 2015: A first draft of the Planck Five begs the questions: What does it say about the Big Bang theory? Do temperatures aggregate (as displayed) or explode (and then what)?
December 25-31: How do we summarize where we are and where we hope to be at this time next year?
December 8, 2014: The Planck Time got set in beside the Planck Length. Using base-2 exponential notation, we see for our first time that the two track logically and systemically together. The rough draft for a container is complete. The Finite is finite, the Infinite is Infinite, and the constants and universals describe the boundary conditions and transformations between each. One manifests a panoply of perfections; the other has only momentary instants of perfection. Now we really have to get to work, but first, we simply say, "Thank you."
November 2014: Very simple tilings and tessellations in three dimensions yet especially in two dimensions connect and interconnect all things in space and time. Continuity equations abound. Symmetries of every possible kind are everywhere. A next step is to discern inherent potential harmonies to open conceptual logjams that create confusion within this little world.
October 2014: The "infinite" within infinitesimals and all of calculus is meaningful only within the 201+ notations. Of course, numbers may extend indefinitely ad nauseum and ad absurdum; these poor numbers have no obvious applications.
September 2014: Ratios between number and geometry beget everything within a notation. The work within the Langland's Program needs to be expanded into this Small Scale Universe.
August 2014: Amplituhedrons are but one example of a dynamic transformational structure within a notation.
July 2014: Ratios creates a finite-infinite continuum that provide basic information about order, relations-and-symmetries, and dynamics-and-harmonies.
June 2014: The musical scale is a close analogue to the scale of the universe.
May 2014: Science, business and religions share the same infrastructure.
April 2014: All constants, universals and approximate measurements are the results of ratios.
January 2013: Speculations on the Einstein Rosen bridges and tunnel at the 136-to-137 notations
December 2012: Speculations that the very-small scale was really the Small-Scale Universe and it had about 60-to-64 notations.
November 2012: The first 65 notations are Wilzek's Grid, Penrose's continuum, and throughout history have also been known as the aether, firmament, hypostases, matrix, plenum and vinculum
January 2012: The expansion of vertices and tilings is bewilderingly large and hold within it enormous complexities.
December 2011: The five tetrahedral structure known as the pentastar is the simplest foundation for quantum mechanics
December 2007: The simple interior simple parts of the tetrahedron and octahedron create the strongest-simplest tiling of space.
September 1994: The first use of continuity, symmetry and harmony as a basis for creating a valuation structure for business.
Much more to come...

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Navigation Notes from the Editor: Links often open a new tab. Most links open pages within this website; however, links may also go to Blogspot, LinkedIn, WordPress and other sites that are related to our work on The Big Board-little universe Project and our UniverseTable. Many of the secondary links will go to Wikipedia. Small Business School is where many of these pages were initially published on the web as early as December 2011.

For small business owners: We see a working relation between a universe view, small business and entrepreneurism so much so that many more pages will continue to begin right here within Small Business School.

Let us open a discussion and exploration.

In what ways can we envision the universe that could be helpful to students and those of us who are perpetual students? We are working on our hypothesis: the next big thing will be an analysis of all the Planck Units within the same 201+ doublings (clusters, domains, groups, layers, notations, steps) that we found for the Planck Length and Planck Time. Let us also open discussions on Facebook, Twitter, Bing, Pinterest, Plaxo, Yahoo and beyond. As you will see from one of the discussions below, Wikipedia is not yet quite the right place for such a dialogue.

• Big Board - little universe, An Ongoing Work

This chart is 60" x 12" It is our original depiction of the 202.34-to-205.11 notations. Just the numbers (Planck Length).

• Universe Table, An Ongoing Work

There are over 201 doublings using simple math, 202.34 via a calculation by a NASA scientist, and as many as 205.1 notations from a French astrophysicist. This table focuses on the Human Scale and notations 67-68 to 134-138. The Small Scale (1 to 67-69) and Large Scale (134-138 to 205) will follow after updates, verifications, and the footnotes have been completed for this first table.

• A ten-step tour of the Big Board-little universe
and the Universe Table

Touch down on ten different areas from two charts of the universe and get a little overview of both (always under construction).

– Introduction / Tour Overview:

– The Planck Length

– Step 202-to-206: Observable Universe

– Step 101 to 103: In the middle of the universe

– Step 116: A child within

– Step 97: Our caveat and a little blood

– Step 84: A water molecule

– Step 66: Proton-Fermion

– Steps 1-65: Almost too small for words More...

– Steps 136: Transition to the Large Scale

– Steps 158-180: From Solar System to Superclusters

Related Pages (many different websites):

• Another short tour (More in preparation)

- Short Tour: The Universe is Very Small

- Short Tour: The Universe is Very Simple

- Short Tour: The Universe Uses Very Big and Extremely Small Numbers
(Make friends with numbers and geometries).

• A research paper for a science fair project, Walk the Planck, and introduction by Bruce Estes

• Reflections on "Walk the Planck" by Bruce Camber, an adviser to Bryce Estes

• Walk the Planck Title board: 22" wide 35" high (total display, 44" wide and 70" high)

• 15 Key Ideas May Be the Foundations of all this effort

May 2014: Where we have been and where we might be going.

• Might this be the smallest-biggest-simplest scientific experiments?

• Propaedeutics

An analyze and opinions about the Universe Table and the Big Board - little universe

• Concepts & Parameters

The simplest parameters of science and mathematics opened the way for this entire inquiry.

• Introduction & Overview

The question was asked on December 19, 2011, "Why isn't this stuff on the web someplace?" It seemed like somewhere in our midst was a fundamental logic flaw. Very cautiously, this page was put up on the web over on the Small Business School website so family and friends could be asked to read this introduction and caution us or encourage us along the way.

• Proposed Wikipedia Article, April 2012.

To invite critical review and collaboration, this article was submitted and then publicly posted within Wikipedia back in April 2012 yet it was deleted in the first week of May. That original iteration was again published within Small Business School.

• 202.34: the calculations by Joe Kolecki, retired, NASA scientist

Joe Kolecki was the first person outside our little group of students to help. He provided us with this calculation in May 2012. Soon thereafter, the Argonne National Laboratory and Nikon Small World helped a little, too.

• Just the numbers

This page provides all the numerations from the first Planck Length through all 202.34 doublings.

• A little story

The background story about how this perception emerged and when it was introduced in high school geometry classes on that last day before the Christmas holidays, Monday, December 19, 2011.

• What are we to believe?

Universals and constants can be applied to every belief system. If the belief system is unable to accommodate both, then it is incomplete.

• First Principles

The conceptual foundations for this work start with the thrust or energy to make things better or more perfect.

May we turn to you for insight? That big chart on the left measures 62" x 14" so it can be a bit awkward to use at your desk. We wanted to present the data in a more simple format (to be printed on 8.5x11 inch paper or displayed on a smartphone) so we created the chart on the right. We are calling it, the Universe Table. This is a long-term project, so we would like to ask a few questions to help us prioritize and focus on important things to do.

The large-scale universe seems so much more approachable. On the Big-Board-little universe chart every notation is listed. Within the Universe Table all the notations within the Human Scale are listed, but those within the small-scale are in groups of ten notations and within the large-scale they are also in groups of ten, each corresponding to one of the images from Andrew Colvin.

Your Views, Worldviews, Universe View. All views are important. Yet, some views are more optimistic, some are more creative, and some more productive. Our hypothesis is that those who balance their views with a strong worldview and a truly integrated universe view will be the most optimistic, creative and productive.

It is going to take us a long time to figure that out, so we need to get started. We are asking our guests -- "Would you please take a very quick, very simple survey, then go on the tour. On the right, you will see a green arrow. Just click on it to begin.

Both charts represent the same thing -- the known universe. The very smallest measurement is the Planck Length. The largest is the Observable Universe. From the smallest to the largest, there are less than 206 notations or steps. Click on each image to see the full-sized rendering.