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I found that an interactive game, Velocity Raptor, gave a great intuition for relativity: http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html http://www.testtubega
by isp 12y ago
I found that an interactive game, Velocity Raptor, gave a great intuition for relativity: http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html
The premise is that you control a character moving at relativistic speeds. The first handful of levels are just to get used to the controls, and not very interesting. It is worth sticking with it for the later levels.
- jacquesm 12y agoWow. Thank you for that link. A (computer)game that kept me interested for more than 30 seconds is pretty rare.
- Steuard 12y agoThat's a really good one! As I recall, it introduces concepts one at a time in a good, educational way, and it winds up fully relativistic (and kinda crazy) by the end. Another more immersive but less "instructive" game is "A Slower Speed of Light": http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ It's pretty cool, though it gets disorienting by the end.
- laumars 12y agoI remember playing Psycho Fox on the Sega Master System which had a similar inertia based control (except it was side scrolling rather than top down) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Fox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Fox