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Yikes. At around 90%c, it's starting to look like a sunny day. Any physicists care to weigh in on the accuracy of this? I can search for the energy density o
by klyrs 3y ago
Yikes. At around 90%c, it's starting to look like a sunny day. Any physicists care to weigh in on the accuracy of this? I can search for the energy density of starlight in interstellar space... but how fast does one need to go to hit that "sunny day" point?
- pixl97 3y agoI'd think the small amount of atoms per cubic meter in interstellar space would make your day very sunny long before you got up to 90%C and the photons out there started to matter.
- Koshkin 3y agoAlso, since the whole universe appears to shrink into a thin line, am I in fact moving now in all directions at once?
- zamadatix 3y agoThe effect is in the way you see light rays appear to arrive because of your motion. It doesn't really change that those things are really an absolute direction or that you're going in one direction.
- BoiledCabbage 3y agoAccording to the simulation moving relativistically in addition to shifting the frequency also increases the intensity significantly. Something I had never heard about until now. I'd love to find a reference for it as I found that surprising too.
- zamadatix 3y agoThe more common name to read about it by is "Relativistic Beaming".
- mihaaly 3y agoI wonder how long one would enjoy the view of that sunny day when all the visible light, infrared and high radio frequencies coming our way are turned into high energy x-ray and gamma frequencies due to the doppler effect.