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- EvolvedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can't believe how many people here can't tell the demo is showing NEAR speed of light (because it never gets to 100%), and that the demo also is in SLOW MOTION so you can SEE the effect. OBVIOUSLY you would have gone around the earth multiple times in a second, it's called slow motion video for the purpose of allowing you to see the effect in the town.
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize this people... - acontorer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3An explanation is in order. For educational purposes, this simulation scales down the "speed of light" to a small speed that you could achieve on a scooter. This enables them to use small objects (buildings, streets) to demonstrate the optical distortion effects associated with near-light-speed travel.
In real life, the effects would be about he same, except much larger objects would have to be observed, such as planets and asteroid belts, since something the size of a whole town would go by in less than a microsecond.
This does not make the demonstration stupid. On the contrary. Pretending to lower the speed of light simply allows us to see a fascinating science concept in a familiar context. Educators know we have all gone down a street, but few of us have flown past a bunch of planets. - exoendo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where was this dugg? I searched, type in the url, typed in various combinations of the words ... and nothing came up. I am a firm supporting of not duping so If I did dupe, please show me the link so I can undigg and report myself. Thanks.
- azphire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The speed of light in mph is 670,616,629 mph not 186,000 mph.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"At what speed do they go plaid?"
I believe at Ludicrous speed - Jortega, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dugg this months ago but i still think its cool.
- Boilerblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At what speed do they go plaid?
- JingJang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Carl Sagan did this in one episode of Cosmos - back in the late 70's/early 80's - it's a cool concept and I digg it. (But Sagan did it 25(ish) years ago which makes him all-the-cooler).
- Designhaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Carl Sagan also wrote 'Contact' which makes him ubberly cool.
The video does not demonstrate the speed of going throught the city(at the speed of light), only the distortion viewed at such a speed. - theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mirror:
Long Vid http://www.spacetimetravel.org.nyud.net:8090/tuebingen/film/tue2.mov
Short Vid http://www.spacetimetravel.org.nyud.net:8090/tuebingen/film/tue1.mov - essrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fascinating ... and all this time I had always associated light speed visualization with the hyperspace speed-lines (you know, the kind popularized by Star Wars)
- tristant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this video really only demonstrates the lorentz transformation. i believe cosmos has a clip of a boy on a bike which also shows the shift in wavelengths / time dilation.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm quite sure if you traveled even close to that it'd just be a blur.
- Rirath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It makes no sense to me how this tiny little distance is suppose to represent the speed of LIGHT.
You'd need to demonstrate via space travel, not world travel, and certainly not by a town. - rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0agreed with grendel.
and when your travelling at 100% speed of light, everything would appear still. - massa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think the light speed is at 40km/h approximately (like in Einstein's thought experiment) but even so, I liked it. Interesting.
- ParityOdd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1am I the only one that thinks that it's not that impressive. common a fish eye camera lens and a 3d walk thu. Nice rendering but common nothing to see here move along.
- Spawnofbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0whoa, that's pretty cool. Anyone notice that this looks similar to the scene in Matrix Reloaded when Neo starts flying REALLY fast?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OMFG people read the explanation on the website, here's a direct quote:
"We then mount the bike and make several round trips through the city centre. On every round we drive past our point of departure in the "Marktgasse", every time with a higher velocity, taking a snapshot whenever we are passing the exact spot where the picture shown above was taken. The camera is always looking ahead in the direction of motion."
Alright? God damnit, people are so ***** retarded nowadays. This is NOT a slowed down version of someone travelling through a city at lightspeed, nor is it even for someone at the speed of sound. We all know light travels very fast and that you would travel around the Earth several times in one second. So shut the ***** up. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Videos are dead, thanks Digg!
- Mads, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg
Cool simulation - djrbx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice, but videos seem short to me. otherwise, i like.
- denied, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+dugg cause i want to see it. movie servers must be seeing a little extra action today, can't dl the clips.
- exoendo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quite a mindtrip for 1:45 am ;)
- burnboom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0drop the pretentious bullcrap already, this is cool. digg.
- Settra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow..thats pretty awesome..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0superbly fast wow
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0w00tbeer! this is awesome. a digg from me it is!
- grendel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1OF COURSE...
at 186,000 miles per second, you only get down one block with a distored view...
not around the world 10 times crushed into a pulp...
i totally believe this simulation... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OK for the idiot who said "we need a demonstration in space"...The closest star is a LIGHT YEAR away, it would be even slower 'looking' than in a city, and I doubt this is light speed or even close to a light speed simulation. At 186,282.397 miles per second I doubt you'd be just down the street in a couple seconds.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1look into a data projecter beem for ten mintus then watch u will be like wow dude thats jusy damn man u so cool
- puny_midget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you had some sort of ultra high speed camera, travelling near the speed of light, you might be able to see things clearer. It is only because our eyes are limited to 10 "frames per second" that we percieve the blur effect.
- milkcow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I give it 3/5 utters.
- H011yJ3susB411s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0c001 :)
- MikeWeller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For some weird reason, the page loads fine but I can't download the movies...
- acontorer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you watch Carl Sagan's wonderful old series "Cosmos," currently airing on the Science Channel (on cable and satellite), they show this very same effect, with a much clearer explanation. And Cosmsos originally aired in 1980.
- astyler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its not 40km/hr, and its not 186000 mph. go read a book (or change mph to mps)
- Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At the speed off light, you would go around the earth six times in one second.
This simulation is nooooooooowhere near the speed of light, it's more like near the speed of sound with some crazy effects.
Really should be called "See what it looks like to travel at the speed of light divided by 100."
Sorry for being a jerk, but it's true. - KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"agreed with grendel.
and when your travelling at 100% speed of light, everything would appear still."
This, along with all other posts claiming to debunk this simulation while asserting the effects at the speed of light, are total morons. This simulation is at NEAR the speed of light. Maybe if you RTFA or WTFV you would know this, you should also know that nothing can move AT the speed of light, thats why they didn't simulate it. - Trackilizer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome clip
- blackfrancis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^^ right. it's also about 186,000 mps (miles per second)
- sphereskr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe the Speed of Sound
- burnboom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0rirath: if you can't gather it from the accompanying pages, this is not equivalent to simply using a wide-angle lens. I'd be very interested in seeing a fisheye that can bend light at non-relativistic speeds. At near light speed you can't really approximate light by rays anymore, as it rather acts as individual particles that have non-linear trajectories relative to the camera. Such as simulation isn't trivial at all and is in my opinion (and many others') pretty interesting, even though a myriad of other phenomenons related to light speed travel (see e.g. GameGod's post) aren't accounted for.
- GameGod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1These videos aren't 100% correct, as they ignore relativistic doppler shift, optical abberation, and the headlight effect... (and probably other things...)
- JOfDam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reminds me of the movie "contact"...
- Junx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's what would happen if c were scaled down to a relatively small velocity like 20 m/s. Besides, when speaking of anything physics-related, who the ***** uses mph? Speed of light is _exactly_ 299792458 m/s (the metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second as defined by the Caesium atomic clock stuff). No stupid estimations please (unless you're speaking of 300 megametres per second [Mm/s] or something).
- antiTRACE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@It makes no sense to me how this tiny little distance is suppose to represent the speed of LIGHT.
You'd need to demonstrate via space travel, not world travel, and certainly not by a town.
It's an EXAMPLE, know what that word means? Damn DDA (digg dumb-asses). - JetTredmont, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a highly accurate rendition of moving through the town of Tübingen wherein the circumference of the earth has been expanded to approximately that of the Milky Way galaxy.
As for those saying this would be a blur ... that would be true if the camera were unable to focus properly or if the walls of the "buildings" were truly close by. - urmudda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This isnt accurate. When you look at something, what you really are seeing is not the actual object, but light reflecting off it instead. This is why you cant see in the dark. So if one was to travel at the speed of light or faster (even though it is impossible), they wouldnt see any light reflections and everything would be black.
- nucleocide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think this is stupid. -digg
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