From: "Charles L. Harper Jr." •cl To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Re-send: quick update Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:18:11 +0000 Many thanks for your quick reply Jeffrey. I've acted upon it immediately by sending a letter to Max Tegmark. I have asked him for initial confidentiality, but (as we agreed in our initial discussion) have explained that the identity of the donor would not be confidential in this project, and that the essay contest would generate both 3 prizes and invitations to the winners to attend the research exploration-of-possibilities meeting in NYC or in Florida (or Virgin islands??). I have suggested a possible 6 months timescale as follows: Design / organizing time: 3 weeks ? Advertizing time: 1 month ? Incubation time: 4 months? Judging time: 1 week ? This would allow the meeting to be held 7 months from the time of the start if the essay contest project. Judges for the project would be chosen (mostly) from the first 5 key selections for the meeting attendees. Inviting busy highly distinguished people to come to a meeting such as we have in mind usually requires a lead time of something like 9 months. (People, for example, like Artur Eket, Anton Zeilinger, Vletko Vedral and Scott Aaronson) Therefore the timescale can be meshed OK without excess delay. Unless you wish to rush. I think that an "incubation time" of 4 months is minimal for development and submission of a competition paper. This could be pushed-up to 6 months. I'll be interested to know what Max Tegmark thinks. Note that the judging of the contest could be developed interestingly as an in-person one-day activity involving the judges and, say, 6 finalists. This could be done the day before the research meeting. That would be an interesting "twist" but would add an extra cost for T&L, etc. Allbest, Charles Harper FYI, Note that 2010 marks an interesting anniversary that we might reference in an attempt to seek deep insights at the