Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

Special relativity simulator in which light crawls along at a human speed, so Lorentz contraction, aberration and Doppler shift happen at walking pace.
627 points by dmitrybrant 42 days ago rivendell.dmitrybrant.com 287 comments
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I've always wanted to make a visualization where the speed of light was scaled down to human speeds, so that we could intuit relativistic effects with everyday objects. Here is the first version of it!

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