few days ago landed up on this youtube video. optical effects of special relativity. its low res, but still content is very well explained.
[YOUTUBE]JQnHTKZBTI4[/YOUTUBE]
APOD: 2011 October 18 - Movie: Approaching Light Speed
the link was posted in article in cracked
was looking around for similar things, then found this game made by MIT, and openrelativity unity engine toolkit for simulation of such scenarios on your own
[YOUTUBE]uu7jA8EHi_0[/YOUTUBE]
tried it out. its for real, free, 98 mb and it is great. move toward everything and you see some colours first. move away from anything and it goes dark except for ultraviolet. You can actually see photons from further away coming at you [strike]slower[/strike] later than the nearer ones. So this thing interactively shows what it is to travel at speed of light (catch here is that speed of light is slowed down, you are not speeded up).
link to the game is here A Slower Speed of Light | MIT Game Lab
[YOUTUBE]JQnHTKZBTI4[/YOUTUBE]
APOD: 2011 October 18 - Movie: Approaching Light Speed
the link was posted in article in cracked
It turns out that as you approach lightspeed, physics gets sort of wonky. NASA put together a demonstration of what it would look like to travel down the universe's longest street while approaching at lightspeed, and what basically happens is that all the light washes out of your surroundings and converges in front of you until it looks like you're trekking toward a bright dot on the horizon. So, in actuality, traveling in hyperspace would look less like streaking stars and more like how your great-aunt describes her near-death experience.
Read more: 5 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About Space | Cracked.com
was looking around for similar things, then found this game made by MIT, and openrelativity unity engine toolkit for simulation of such scenarios on your own
[YOUTUBE]uu7jA8EHi_0[/YOUTUBE]
tried it out. its for real, free, 98 mb and it is great. move toward everything and you see some colours first. move away from anything and it goes dark except for ultraviolet. You can actually see photons from further away coming at you [strike]slower[/strike] later than the nearer ones. So this thing interactively shows what it is to travel at speed of light (catch here is that speed of light is slowed down, you are not speeded up).
link to the game is here A Slower Speed of Light | MIT Game Lab