Bart Stuck attended MIT, worked at Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ), worked as an independent consultant for venture capital funds and for major telecom carriers and equipment vendors, founded a venture capital fund, and worked in metamathematics, the geometric foundations of mathematical physics.
Barton W. Stuck (Bart Stuck) was born in Detroit Michigan on 25 October 1946. He lived in Detroit until 1950 when his parents moved the family to Grosse Pointe Farms for the schools. He graduated from Grosse Pointe High School (now Grosse Pointe High South) in June 1964. He was an undergraduate and graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from1964-1972 located in Cambridge Massachusetts, and then moved to Summit, New Jersey, residing there from 1972-1989. He currently resides in Westport, Connecticut, having moved there in 1989 from New Jersey.
Here are some insights from Albert Einstein that influenced him, take note all those who still believe that spirituality and science are incompatible ...
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility. There is no matter.”
"Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, determined by the external world."
“Time does not exist – we invented it. Time is what the clock says. The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
"A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Our separation from each other is an optical illusion."
“When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.”
“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
“The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.”
“The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.”
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.”
“I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.”
"The common idea that I am an atheist is based on a big mistake. Anyone who interprets my scientific theories this way, did not understand them."
"Everything is determined, every beginning and ending, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
“Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
"I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care about money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. I claim credit for nothing. A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."
Einstein: “I Believe in the God of Spinoza”
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When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was:
– Do you believe in God?
And he always answered:
– I believe in the God of Spinoza.
Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with Descartes.
Spinoza:
God would say:
Stop praying.
What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I’ve made for you.
Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That’s where I live and there I express my love for you.
Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing. Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So don’t blame me for everything they made you believe.
Stop reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can’t read me in a sunrise, in a landscape, in the look of your friends, in your son’s eyes … you will find me in no book!
Stop asking me “will you tell me how to do my job?” Stop being so scared of me. I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry, or bothered. I am pure love.
Stop asking for forgiveness, there’s nothing to forgive. If I made you… I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies… free will. How can I blame you if you respond to something I put in you? How can I punish you for being the way you are, if I’m the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? What kind of god would do that?
Respect your peers and don’t do what you don’t want for yourself. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that alertness is your guide.
My beloved, this life is not a test, not a step on the way, not a rehearsal, nor a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing here and now and it is all you need.
I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.
You are absolutely free to create in your life. Heaven or hell.
I can’t tell you if there’s anything after this life but I can give you a tip. Live as if there is not. As if this is your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.
So, if there’s nothing after, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, rest assured that I won’t ask if you behaved right or wrong, I’ll ask. Did you like it? Did you have fun? What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?…
Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. I don’t want you to believe in me. I want you to believe in you. I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you tuck in your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.
Stop praising me. What kind of egomaniac God do you think I am?
I’m bored being praised. I’m tired of being thanked. Feeling grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Express your joy! That’s the way to praise me.
Stop complicating things and repeating as a parakeet what you’ve been taught about me.
What do you need more miracles for? So many explanations?
The only thing for sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.
From September 1964 until June 1972 he matriculated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts, receiving the degrees SBEE (1968), SMEE (1969), EE (1970) and Sc.D.(1972). He worked the summer of 1966 for Bendix in Southfield Michigan, the summer of 1967 for IBM in Poughkeepsie New York, the summer of 1968 for MIT Lincoln Laboratories in Lincoln Massachusetts, the summer of 1969 for Hughes Aircraft in Culver City California, and the summer of 1970 for MIT Lincoln Laboratories in Lincoln, Massachusetts. In 1994-1995, he collaborated with the MIT Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation and the Appalachian Mountain Club with offices in Boston, Massachusetts; all MIT undergraduates must complete four semesters of physical education, and the Appalachian Mountain Club agreed to sponsor a three day intensive session for MIT undergraduates over Presidents Weekend every year at their facilities in the White Mountains of New Hampshire that would fulfill a one semester requirement at MIT.
From September 1972 until January 1984 he worked at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. From 1972-1976 he was in the Mathematics Research Center, from 1976-1982 in UNIX Application Support, and from 1982-1983 in ATT Computer Business Unit strategic planning. He lectured at over 50 universities and research institutes in North America, Western Europe, the Soviet Union and Japan, and published over 30 papers in refereed technical journal, coauthored a book with Edward Arthurs, A Computer and Communication Network Performance Analysis Primer, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1985. In January 1981 he and Ed Arthurs presented a one week class at MIT on computer performance analysis based on the ideas found in An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 2, Wiley, New York, 1971; this became the basis for Chapter 10 in the Primer. He developed with Ed Arthurs an internal graduate level class in computer performance analysis, which was taught at Bell Labs as part of a computer science graduate curriculum and at Columbia University (three times). He was guest editor for two special issues of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (local area networks, and computer aided design). He was technical program chair and general program chair of IEEE Infocom in 1985 and 1986 respectively, and for the IEEE/ACM Data Communications Symposium in 1985 and 1987 respectively.
From 1982 to 1983 he was involved in the market entry strategy for the ATT Computer Business Unit: a UNIX workstation product line with significant UNIX support for third party hardware vendors to make UNIX an industry standard platform, which in turn would encourage applications to be ported or written anew for UNIX. AT&T was not able to displace the IBM PC as a front end to large information systems, and exited the computer business in 1995 with the spinoff of NCR that it acquired in a hostile takeover in 1991; in 1991 ATT disclosed it had lost $4B in the computer business since its entry in January 1984.
In 1977 he cofounded the Northern New Jersey Squash Racquets Association, to promote and encourage the game of squash, particularly for novices, women, and children; this association currently has 500+ active players primarily at public clubs in Northern New Jersey. He has held age group United States Squash Racquets Association national rankings, and has participated in numerous USSRA national championships.
From 1984 to 1998 he was an independent consultant, working with venture capital funds in the USA and in Europe, and with major telecom equipment vendors and telecom service providers. He was involved with over US$60B in capital placements, which resulted in the creation of the optical networking business with investments in Ciena for optical networking transmission equipment, and JDSUniphase for optical networking components. He invested in Tegic Communications that developed predictive text entry software that is installed on over 1B mobile phones around the world, in over fifty languages. He invested in CoVad Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier that returned 100X to its investors in three years. From 1990 to 1992, he was an advisor to Korea Telecom in South Korea, providing strategic planning and economic planning advice to migrate the copper wire access network with electromechanical switches and microwave backbone transmission to an optical backbone network with electronic routers handled copper wire and coaxial cable and wireless network access; today over 95% of all buildings in South Korea enjoy 100 mbps Internet access.
From 1998 until the present he has been involved with early stage venture capital activities. He served on the Global Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, Cambridge, Massachusetts from 2004-2006; while there, he argued that the MIT Enterprise Forum should focus on early stage businesses, having the management of early stage businesses present to a panel of knowledgeable individuals, to provide the Forum linkage between MIT (Science and Engineering) and Enterprise (the commercialization of a product or service to meet a market need). In 2008, CNBC launched Shark Tank that has enjoyed considerable commercial success with this format. Examples of early stage ventures where he provided counsel include TranSwitch which was a fabless semiconductor company that developed digital transmission chips for T1/T3 as well as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) chips, 10 gigabit/sec fabless semiconductors (resulting in Bart Stuck holding four patents), and digital holographic storage (as foreseen in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey).
In 2020 he launched with Marjorie Partch the online Zoom class on Mysticism: Where Science, Art and Spirituality Meet. The website alephtalks.com contains the syllabus for this class and the resources for each of the ten modules that currently comprise the class. At present, the largest spiritual group in the United States is Spiritual But Not Affiliated with any organized faith; as materialism has become rampant in daily life, it has led to an imbalance with spirituality, which this class was created to address. At the same time, Western science is in a crisis: after centuries of advancement it is now realized that only a small fraction of the universe, perhaps (1/8), has been under study, with the remainder called dark (dark matter is five times more prevalent than matter, while dark energy is even larger than dark matter). Mysticism can provide new hypotheses that might explain where the missing dark universe in fact resides; current evidence suggests that dark matter makes up eternal souls that reincarnate over the millenia in plants, animals and other humans. This survey class deals with the poetry of the Bhagavad-Gita, Whitman, Dickinson and Rumi, and with the archetypes and collective unconscious of C.G.Jung, as well as labyrinth, astrology, I Ching and tarot.
