Hacker News with Generative AI: Relativity

A snapshot of relativistic motion: visualizing the Terrell-Penrose effect (nature.com)
In 1959, Roger Penrose and James Terrell independently predicted that the Lorentz contraction of fast moving objects is not visible in a snapshot photograph.
Physics, Relativity, Visualization, Science
4 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 0 comments
Looking for a Hidden Determinism (lambdaway.fr)
We consider a complex spacetime framework, using which we propose to recover the results of relativistic and quantum theories, in a purely geometric manner, without appealing to any objective indeterminism of nature.
Physics, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Determinism
6 points by martyalain 12 days ago | 4 comments
Time Dilation Formula / Calculator (timedilationformula.com)
Time dilation is like a magic trick that happens when you travel really fast. The faster you go, the slower time moves for you compared to people standing still on Earth!
Physics, Time, Relativity
50 points by mpclarkson 119 days ago | 52 comments
Why doesn't the expanding Universe break the speed of light? (bigthink.com)
Cosmology, Physics, Relativity
16 points by elashri 299 days ago | 3 comments
Physicists: Tachyons can be reconciled with the special theory of relativity (phys.org)
Physics, Relativity, Theoretical Physics, Tachyons
15 points by bikenaga 302 days ago | 12 comments
A relativistic framework to establish coordinate time on the Moon and beyond (arxiv.org)
Space Exploration, Physics, Relativity
130 points by croes 302 days ago | 72 comments