Movie 25 (:48)
Script : The Terrell
effect can be shown with this cube. Doppler and intensity effects
are off. Note the orientation of the cube change. Compare its
apparent position with the actual position indicated at the lower
right. We see the cube as it was, catching up with photons.
However, these
distinctions are meaningless. Even in this universe, nothing exceeds
the speed of light, even when bending, so for light to travel
in a straight line, it would have to exceed its own speed : impossible.
Reality is the
distorted cube, and the bird's eye view is from outside this universe.
On the highway,
objects rotated more due to our acceleration. Since we move past
the cube at a constant speed, rotation is constant. In space flight,
effects would also be constant, because spaceships coast more
than accelerating by firing rockets.