High speed motion is the domain of the special theory of relativity. In this domain everyday experience fails us because we are simply too slow to ever personally experience relativistic effects. But high speed flights, i.e. flights at nearly the speed of light, can be simulated on a computer. The sights that travellers would see on such flights are amazing. Yet, they can be explained in an intuitive way and they illustrate important physical effects like aberration.
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Tempolimit: Lichtgeschwindigkeit
- Beobachtungen bei Hochgeschwindigkeitsflügen
Ute Kraus
ASTRONOMIE+RAUMFAHRT im Unterricht
Heft 2/2003
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