Roger Luebeck home page             Links are in red           These pages were begun in 1996.




Above: napping.  He left us on August 4, 2024

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    My software:

      RogCAD 3D CAD homepage
	  
      RogCAD full description

      QB64 IDE (RogCAD code snippets)

      RogCAD Girder and Panel building set

      Chaos etc - equations and graphical output

      Clover milk and strawy breads

    Other software:

      Paint Shop Pro 4.12 image editing



October 12 2024:

Fun new tutorial I just wrote for general relativity and 
special relativity time-keeping dilation computations:

Easily compute non-kinematical and kinematical
time-keeping dilation for anything.


My relativity article is at: relativitytrail.com/preprint.special_relativity.pdf 03/09/2024 note. Einstein gets half-way there: In February 2024, during the process of researching a definition for use in my article, I stumbled upon an obscure lecture delivered by Einstein at Leyden in 1920. I learned, by way of reading the transcript of that lecture, that Einstein had by that time (fifteen years after his 1905 paper on relativity) come around to thinking about the nature of space as it relates to special relativity. Specifically, he forcefully argued that there is necessarily an underlying frame of reference for the effects of special relativity, i.e., a background which needs to be appealed to in order for there to be standards for distance, clocks and rods. That is in sharp contrast to his original treatment, in which he had simply disregarded the nature of space. Having spent my entire adult life searching the literature for anyone other than myself who has understood and articulated why that background (call it ether or the totality of the cosmos) is not merely an option when it comes to explaining the effects of relativity, it seems safe to say that only Einstein himself rose to the task. Poincare, Lorentz and Fitzgerald did not come close. Einstein partially rose to the task. He never did go back and rework special relativity in absolute terms with new postulates. That fell to poor me alone. It was a task I never wanted or felt I should have to do. I did it in 2008. It's my book Relativity Trail, which I sell at the U of M. You can read what Einstein said in my article. Take the challenge. It's a short read: relativitytrail.com/preprint.special_relativity.pdf




Mini-journal:  


June 11 2023
Time flies.  Been one year since I had the
honor of playing host for one month to 
Scott Booth -- talented folk songwriter
and singer.  Four albums to date.  
Played lots of catch with the baseball 
and rode bikes.  Also had the honor of 
creating Scott's official website for 
his music.

Listen to my favorites at his website: 
scotman.net



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 Old and recent: archives
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October 28 2024
Makes the world go 'round: The "printer"

April 28 2024
Spring.  Thankful for bicycles and hills.
Hill climbing every Sunday morning until August.

February 12 2024
Reel-to-reel  tape decks restoration

February 01 2024
Hi-fi review


March 1 2024
MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) turns fundraising 
into riches for its managers and key employees.

The eight highest-paid employees received between
$444,000 and $764,000 each in compensation in 2022.

MPR paid out 10 million dollars to nonemployees for 
unspecified services in 2022 alone.  Friends of theirs?

85 million dollars in one year just for
employees and professional fees and marketing.

Click on the link above for the full expose'
of their massive ripoff scheme.  This is solely
my own investigation.


May 28 2023
Clutter?

March 25 2023
Saturday mornings:  Toasted onion bagels and 
Roy Rogers movies.  I tune in for the songs 
and the light-hearted scripts.

March 17 2023
Thankful for the soothing sound of my furnace 
and for the sound of Lucky's gentle snoring.



2024  Grand Teton Climb  (Upper Exum route)

2023  Autumn camp & hike

2023  Grand Teton Climb  (Owen-Spalding route)

2023  Western hiking trip

2023  Spring camp & hike
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2022  Autumn camp & hike

2022  Western hiking trip
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2021  Western hiking trip

2021  Spring camp & hike
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2019  Western hiking trip

2018  Western hikes 2016 - 2018




  




Contrary to the delusion,
This is the correct time, every day of the year:
 Current time in Minneapolis
 
Natural time versus sheer idiocy






My pampered life  and stories about the U of M and Dr. Gershenson




Arithmetic of wind and solar energy 

  





Photographs (Lucky, Bucky, Roger, house) Our family history website (Stories, photos, memorabilia)



My recent projects for clients, my outdoor
schedule, and my guide for contractors:

Link: My projects, schedule and restoration guide

Link: Painting and Carpentry


  Song of the Birds

  Little Audrey and her air rifle.

  4 min 23 sec, with audio.   Link: This is nonfiction

  
  Cartoon begins two seconds after clicking play button.





Jester's web page


   

   Hermit Thrush



Click this link to see all 29 
of the short musical clips:

Western musical 
(and other favorite) film clips



(1934 -      )  including Mr Ed




24 picture slide show, with sound.  Activate audio.

More of Little Bear: Jester's page




2022 Autumn trip:
17 full-size pics   42 second looping video of Bucky







2022  Western hiking trip 




Your host,
Oct 6, 2023:





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The preprint for my relativity journal article is at: 

relativitytrail.com/preprint.special_relativity.pdf




Relativity in absolute terms

There are only three sane sections in the Wikipedia article 
on the twin paradox of special relativity.  I authored those 
sections in 2011, and they've been there continuously since that time:

Here's the link to the three sections below.

   4.  A non space-time approach
   5.  The equivalence of biological aging and clock time-keeping
   12. No twin paradox in an absolute frame of reference


On several fundamental levels, Relativity Trail eclipses the works of Poincare, Lorentz and Einstein regarding the underpinnings and kinematics of special relativity: link: The originality and uniqueness of Relativity Trail
A short discussion about spacetime A short discussion about "slow light"
The twin paradox of special relativity cannot be resolved without acknowledging a hierarchy of clock rates dependent on a hierarchy of inertial motion. © 2022 relativitytrail.com Relativity Trail explains the time differential between reunited clocks, eliminates the twin paradox, diagrams Einstein's clock sychronization in absolute terms, and ends all confusion regarding relative frames of reference. It's completely compatible with, and in fact subsumes, Einstein's relativity. It reveals what is transpiring behind the scenes of Einstein's treatment. Spacetime is shown to be dependent on Einstein's clock synchronization method, and is properly relegated to a geometrical construct which comes up short as a physical reality. © 2008 relativitytrail.com Relativity Trail, with 192 pages, 65 diagrams and 75 illustrations, will provide you with complete detailed algebraic derivations of all the kinematical effects of special relativity. Everything is charted out in absolute terms against a system at rest with respect to the totality of the universe for perfect clarity as well as soundness of theoretical basis. It is the totality of the universe that imparts the inertial properties of clock rates and lengths which generate the effects of relativity. This is explained in detail in Relativity Trail Introductory document: Relativity in absolute terms (can be read with comprehension in twelve minutes) Absolute versions of Einstein's postulates (a snippet from the above document -- can be read with comprehension in three minutes) Twin Paradox Animation on youtube. Light rays and traveling twins are charted in absolute terms, free of the misleading space-time diagram. I wrote the program code for the animation using QuickBASIC for DOS. Updated 12/08/2024