Murray gell-man

The following is from Jeffrey Epstein:

What are your summer plans? Can you bring me up to speed on what you are working on?

Jeffrey Epstein

Dear Jeffrey,

Thanks for the messages. I hope your life has returned to normal and is going well.

I'm going to spend three or four weeks in Aspen starting on the first of July. My projects include the following.

Work with the Russian linguists on distant relationships among human languages. We seem to be finding that a very large fraction of the world's languages -- but probably not all -- are descended from a single one spoken quite recently, around fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, the time when the earth was emerging from the last ice age, during which human beings were concentrated in refugia where life was less difficult than elsewhere..

Continuing work with Jim Hartle on understanding how to view quantum mechanics. The usual description is rather silly, and besides it doesn't really allow for quantum cosmology. We have a much better formulation.

Work with two theorists in Vienna on unconventional formulae for entropy. It turns out that the usual expression for entropy or information applies only to certain problems, while other problems require different prescriptions. Basically what is involved is replacing the logarithm by other functions that are also monotonic and concave.

Work on certain kinds of regularities in human history and prehistory. It seems to be possible to bring history and prehistory closer to being sciences.

It would be fun to discuss any of these things with you. Do you ever come to Aspen these days?

All the best,

Murray

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