/sci/ - Science & Math

ITT post sweet physics pics of stuff from before 1995. preferably after 1900, but exceptions are allowed.

here's a _fact_ to consider:
a multiplayer video game that allows players to travel in different speeds/directions from one another can never simulate the effects of relativity like time dilation. why? because you'd need the actual players to experience the fictional time-dilation, which is impossible to do as long as players remain at rest on their game-playing couch.

example: the twin paradox. player 1 stays on earth and player 2 flies to alpha centauri and back at .999 c. is player 2 now younger than player 1? well his character is.... how does he experience that? he simply watches his onscreen character move in slow motion. when really an accurate simulation of you travelling on the ship would seem not slow-motion to you

vidya forever doomed to galilean time.

sorry >>>/v/, you will never have a realistic interstellar travel game, it's physically impossible. real interstellar travel, however, is impossible. lesson: vidya sucks, do stuff IRL