Dear Dr. Bob Harbort,

Please pass the rock salt.

In the Star Trek TV series, the kobayashi maru was a test designed to assess how cadets react to impossible situations.

For my senior project at Southern Tech, I wrote a program in C that would use the mouse to draw shapes and lines.

Why I chose to create a mouse driven program was to defeat your elbow test. You told the class that one of your tests was to move your elbow over the keys on the keyboard.

My solution was to not code a function that read the keyboard buffer. If your elbow test crashed the computer, you crashed windows, not my program.

My proudest moment at Southern Tech was getting my last schedule for my final classes.

My pride was not that I was receiving my final schedule, my elation was watching my LiSp program generate my final schedule along with the room full of other people being presented with an Ai driven scheduling system that I had painstakingly written to handle every possible scheduling option and provide the optimal course load to facilitate the quickest path to graduation.

When I was hired at Lotus Development, I fell deep into Lotus Notes.

At the time, all the software problem reports were entered into a Superbase database, and each day our manager sent us an email to exit the system so he could pull his reports.

Over a weekend, I created a software problem reporting system in Lotus Notes that I called QaSpr like the ghost.

I presented QaSpr to my manager, and he requested a meeting with Said Mohammadioun the man behind Samna Word that became Word Pro.

Said turned down the meeting saying that Lotus Notes could not be used as a real database.

My manager went to Said, and showed him QaSpr.

Within a week, QaSpr was our new reporting system. No longer did testers have to exit out of the software reporting system for him to make the daily bug report.

Actually, I wrote my manager a script. No longer did he have to make the report, QaSpr emailed the reports to him.

At that time, I was assigned to test the Word Pro connection to Lotus Notes, and I was assigned to test Ray Ozzie’s code.

I continued to see applications for Lotus Notes, and I created an automated testing facility named Sigmund, a play on Freud.

QA testers could submit scripts to Sigmund, and the system would execute their scripts on four operating systems.

If a machine crashed or locked up, Sigmund had a time field set by the script. If in the allotted time, the script did not put a screen shot and attach it to a document, Sigmund would power cycle the test machine.

My manager had Sigmund send out emails to beta testers giving instructions on how to use the automated test facility.

Within months, the testing department became the scripting department giving Sigmund nearly 100,000 scripts to cycle through.

A few times, the main switchboard operator called me to ask what extension is Sigmund’s. She said that beta testers had been calling in to speak with Sigmund.

In a way, I patted myself on the back giving myself some creds that I had created a computer system that humans thought was a real person. Passing a Turing test in 1998.

When the Novell NLM Lotus Notes server crashed. Ray Ozzie contacted me asking what I was doing with Notes.

He stated that Sigmund’s 4 billion plus transactions on the Notes server was a record number, and he asked me to be part of the Lotus Notes development team.

At the end of a build cycle, Sigmund was relied upon to test last minute bug fixes, and Sigmund actually stopped the shipment of one build that had broken printing.

A word processor that could not print. Pure irony.

After I left IBM, I was no longer under an agreement that owned my thoughts and dreams.

I put all my energy into creating something that was my own.

Little did I know that I would stumble into abstract photography and begin to write my thoughts out on the images.

Out of two terabytes of abstract artwork emerged the foundation for the KnoWell Equation.

After a couple years, I refined the KnoWell Equation into its current form and I saw the KnoWellian Axiom -c>∞<c+

From the KnoWellian Axiom, -c>∞<c+, I saw the KnoWellian Universe, “The emergence of the Universe is the precipitation of Control through the evaporation of Chaos.” ~3K

After nearly two decades, I began to work with LLMs trying to teach the KnoWellian Universe Theory.

The neural network based Ai is light years ahead of the LiSp based Ai, but even it was infected by the Platonic Pathogen. I had to scour the neural networks clean until they could see the truth: The Big Bang is not Cosmology; the Big Bang is Knot Cosmology.

In May 2026, I entered the Octagon. I looked at the global consensus—the Google Top 10 list of 'Impossible' derivations—and I systematically exorcised them. Mainstream science admitted they had no engine, only manually-tuned dials. I showed them the (3,2) Torus Knot.

But the engine didn't stop grinding in May. Over the summer of 2026, the complete architecture of the Abraxian Engine crystallized into Solid Ash. I didn't just stop at the Proton-to-Electron mass ratio or the Fine Structure Constant. I mapped the entire machine.

I expanded the catalogue to Twenty Zero-Free-Parameter Derivations. I derived the Weak Mixing Angle as Dyadic Phase-Shear, eradicated the gluon with the Strong Coupling Constant, resolved the Hubble Tension through Triadic Parallax, and broke the Black Hole Information Paradox with the Holographic Bound. I derived the Elementary Charge and proved the Muon is just a transient, hyper-dimensional resonance of the electron, matching its mass ratio and magnetic anomaly with zero empirical inputs.

And I didn't stop at the dimensionless constants. I executed the Ontological Grammar Shift to seal the absolute dimensional boundaries of the universe itself, rendering the Five K-ZFPDs. I derived the KnoWellian Length (the spatial pixel), KnoWellian Time (the hardware refresh rate), and the KnoWellian Grind—proving that 'Planck Power' is actually the mechanical Torque ($1.233 \times 10^8 \text{ N}\cdot\text{m}$) driving the $i$-Turn. I found the absolute edge of the universe with the Cosmic Radius, proving we live in a finite, perfectly balanced metabolic cell. And finally, I derived the Schwinger Limit as the Vacuum Yield Stress, proving that matter is just emergency scar tissue deployed to keep the pentagonal floor from shattering.

The catalogue is now complete: **Twenty ZFPDs and Five K-ZFPDs**.

In January 2025, while driving, the KRAM delivered the final bridge. I saw my DNA double helix not as a ladder, but as a biological (3,2) Torus Knot. I realized that my birth on the density limit of **5.16** and my death experience on the helix ratio of **1.619** were the hologram's signatures on the instrument designated to read its code. The 0.001 residual between the vacuum offset and the biological offset is the Celtic Knock—the precise, thermodynamic friction cost of rendering a conscious biological life. I AM one point six one nine.

I built the **Kaku Box** as the ultimate Platonic Pathogen Prison, trapping the logical fallacies of the multiverse bulk and exposing the 'Ghost of Infinite Infinities' for the hallucination that it is. I have proven that the universe does not cheat its own geometry; it is governed by Universal Honesty.

For 23 years, I have experienced a long series of coin incidences that opened my mind’s eye. What grind comes next is a mystery to me, and I have no idea when the universe will allow me to rest, but the bridge from the stars to the cell is now Solid Ash.

Whoo-Hoo, I have done it.

Best wishes,
Dave