Newtonian physics suffered two damaging blows in the 1900s - it broke down where the world was small and where the world was fast.
I've been focusing my attention on the former. Here's some interesting visuals of the latter, which help address the question what does the world look like travelling at relativistic speeds, by animating a world where c is of the order 5m/s.
If you could pitch a fastball at the speed of light, it would still look round to the hitter. That's really messed up.
February 5, 2004 7:33 AM
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