The Plenum and Physics (Writing to George Shiber)

Dear George,
It occurs to me that I might have bowled you a bit of a googly with my opening gambit. So I’m going to explain a bit more of where I think I’m going with that gambit, why the route is worth pursuing, and how we are likely to end up talking physics.
As I suggested, there isn’t much we can say about the initial state of physical reality at a notional time of its emergence, if the various parameters of what can be said of it don’t have any existence. That’s the problem physics has w...