Relativistic phenomena from first person perspective [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix1XlxF66Zk

by json2d • 3 years ago

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alexmolas• 3 years ago

Interesting video! When studying special relativity it was easy for me to have some intuition about time contraction and how would it feel to experience it, but I always struggled with time dilation. This video helped me to develop some intuition in that regard.

Otoh around 2:50 the time seems to move faster in our system of reference, which afaik it's not what should happen. Did I miss something?

json2d• 3 years ago

I think the use of rotation to visualize the relative speed of clocks was a good design choice both functionally and aesthetically.

That being said, as a hobbyist physicist I can't be too immediately sure about the accuracy eg. @ ~2:50, tho it does appear that the cubes further away are rotating faster which is consistent with the concept of "time ticking slower for the thing moving faster."

Relativistic phenomena from first person perspective [video]

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