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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 8: Poster session (permanent)

GR 8.2: Poster

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 18:00–19:30, Phys-SR-SE2

Relativistic Interactive Flight Simulation — •Stephan Preiß — Institut für Physik, Universität Hildesheim

First-person visualizations can be used as virtual laboratories where relativistic scenes are explored and relativistic phenomena like length contraction, time dilation and aberration of light are directly observable. We developed an interactive relativistic flight simulation to show these effects. Next to static objects, the simulation also includes objects that move at constant speed, accelerate uniformly or rotate constantly. With this tool, we are able to address the common difficulties in the understanding of the special theory of relativity by creating scenes treating twin and ladder paradoxa.