👋 Hi everybody!

My name's Andrew. Igloo comes from my grandfather's last name, Iglinski. I'm a kinda-former engineer with a deep passion for physics. One evening a little more than two years ago, I was reading over some of Einstein's work for probably the 15th time, when something occurred to me. He made an assumption that only made sense in the days before our observations that produced the concept of cosmic inflation.

If we discounted this assumption, we can produce every single experimental validation of both the specialized and generalized theories of relativity without the need for time dilation, therefore preserving synchronicity between reference frames.

I quickly began to accept less work and focus more on this model of relativity than paid software work, and in the process I became homeless. Over the past 2+ years that I've been homeless, I continued to focus on this geometry, and was able to derive several physical quantities through this theory alone that align nearly perfectly with direct observation in a manner that is entirely unaccounted for by current models of relativity.

First, I was able to produce a local peculiar velocity of:

$$ v_o = c \sqrt{1 - \frac{1}{(\frac{1}{R}\int_0^{R} 2 G \frac{M}{R^{3}})^{2}}} = 526.6 ~ \text{km} ~ \text{s}^{-1} $$

Not only was this value produced through local gravitational observations as they relate to this geometry, this value fits almost perfectly on top of probability curves found through direct observation:¹

Second, I was able to produce a relative spatial dilation of $\frac{ds}{dx} = 1.61800103 = \Phi + 0.002\%$.

While the first of two papers is pretty much finished apart from some small revisions and set to be submitted for publication in the coming weeks, I am currently in the process of writing a second paper relating this model to electromagnetism with possibly even more observationally sound and consequential results. However, the note taking framework I built for my own pursuits, ULLD, remains my immediate focus due to, you know... being homeless.

Throughout the time that I was working on my own research, I became increasingly frustrated with existing note taking options. Some offered the ability to run calculations and generate plots directly in your notes but fell far short in regards to searching, linking, and the overall academic workflow. Others offered great tagging and linking features, but failed to allow the customizability that I needed, and all of the existing options failed to deliver the ability to completely contain my notes which included task lists, calendars, snippets, equations, and of course, regular mdx.

About half way through my journey I gave up with existing options and started to build my own app, originally for my personal use. However, as this app continued to grow and expand to meet my own needs, I realized that this app could be beneficial to a user base that extends far beyond my own personal use case.

I've spent the past couple months reworking this application into a slot style, plugin based architecture and am now getting ready to release it to the public. While I'd of course love any support that user's or potential partners can provide, I am still very homeless after all, this app is now and will always be free for user's running it on their own machine.

The main application is completely done and has been done for quite some time. Because of my current living situation mentioned above and the inherent lack of internet and battery power that comes with living in a barely running car, the final 2-3% of this process that involves remote hosting and working with remote packages is proving to be quite time consuming.

If current hosting issues can be resolved, the build script should be available for a beta release by the end of August 2024, with a completely refined application available for full release sometime in the late fall or early winter of 2024 as well.

You can follow the progress here, but hold off on actually attempting a build for now. There's a simple cli that will be released in the coming days that will automate the entire install process, apart from the independent installation of your database of choice.²