special relativity animation


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 special relativity animation

Current interests include Space Access, software engineering, science in general.

I like the Launch Loop.

My Site Content:

Space & Rocketry

Orbital Bungee down to Mars or the Moon!

Java Rotating Space Station Simulation

Multistaged Rocket Costing Program version 6- with less (arguably) less irritating default settings
Multistaged Rocket Costing Program version 4- now with slightly better atmospheric back pressure modelling
Multistaged Rocket Costing Program version 3- now with atmospheric back pressure to make it less overoptimistic
Multistaged Rocket Costing and Design Program version 2 originally  written by Enrique... lightly modified
Mirror of Enrique's original site (2005/04/13)

Study of minimum length (turns out to be about 6m) (Spreadsheet of results)

What the heck is that funny swirly thing at the top anyway?

It's a picture of space time events as they move around something that accelerates very fast. Time is vertical, and the horizontal axis is distance. The 'light cone' is the bit between the diagonal lines and shows where the rocket could theoretically reach. I got it from the wikipedia. If you watch carefully you can see events moving forwards and backwards in time past the observer... but points inside the 'light cone' don't do that so causality is conserved. Based on literally millions of experiments in laboratories around the world, physicists know that this is how reality really works... weird huh?

Cool Links

Pirha - a bunch of cool dudes that can't count, don't have special words for colours, and don't sleep more than a few hours at a time. Oh yeah and they voluntarily fast to be hard men/women.