Light reflected from parts of the object that correspond to the respective optical path length will appear bright in this photo,” the team wrote. Using this approach, the team was able to effectively ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

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The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over. The ...

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Scientists for the first time managed to simulate what objects moving near the speed of light looked like, in an optical ...

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