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11/27/2006

(Video) Travelling at the Speed of Light

In this computer simulation, "we drive through the city at nearly the speed of light, then the faster we go the farther away the houses in front of us seem to be. Also, at increasing velocity the houses close to us appear more and more strongly distorted." Video after the jump.
The reason for this is the phenomenon of aberration: The direction that an observer ascribes to a light ray (or to any motion) depends on the observer's state of motion. Using a pinhole camera one can easily understand that aberration must occur if light propagates with a finite velocity

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There are 10 comments about this post (1 pages).

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Posted at 11/27/2006 06:31am by jonny
jonny
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Posted at 11/27/2006 3:31pm by man
wow that sucked
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Posted at 11/27/2006 3:40pm by Markp.com
Slow tech news day then... ;)
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Posted at 11/27/2006 8:03pm by Joel
pretty lame
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Posted at 11/28/2006 1:42pm by Iscandar
Yawn...
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Posted at 11/28/2006 7:41pm by Julius Cardines
Just shows that travelling that fast just sucks anyway.
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Posted at 11/29/2006 04:30am by jeff
wtf its just a distorted image and hes goin like 20 miles an hour.. wtf
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