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You guys have to check out the A Slower Speed of Light game demo. If you can't download the demo, watch the video below. Thanks to hoboman for the heads up.
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So this is what Gordon Freeman studied?
Whether it'd be a fun game or not, it's an awesome demonstration of relativity. I could see it being a very useful classroom tool.
I haven't looked yet but it sounds interesting. Of course, when all is said and done, people are fooling themselves. We cannot even explain 'relative' until we verify what is moving and what is not in the first place before we make observations of relative speed. Just who is to say our entire universe is not travelling at near the speed of light already? Do we even know what 'stationary' is, so that we can have a reference? (I'd have to say NO to that, simply because no one has put into space a gyro locked stationary device to use as a locked positional reference yet.)
Do we even know what 'stationary' is, so that we can have a reference? (I'd have to say NO to that, simply because no one has put into space a gyro locked stationary device to use as a locked positional reference yet.)
I haven't looked yet but it sounds interesting. Of course, when all is said and done, people are fooling themselves. We cannot even explain 'relative' until we verify what is moving and what is not in the first place before we make observations of relative speed. Just who is to say our entire universe is not travelling at near the speed of light already? Do we even know what 'stationary' is, so that we can have a reference? (I'd have to say NO to that, simply because no one has put into space a gyro locked stationary device to use as a locked positional reference yet.)
Hmmm. Might be tough to set that stationary device up. Maybe, instead, we could use a fixed velocity as our reference and define stationary relative to that velocity. I wonder what could provide a suitably constant velocity?