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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 14: Poster Session (posters are permanently on display)

GR 14.1: Poster

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 16:30–18:30, HS 6

Relativistic Interactive Flight Simulation — •Stephan Preiß — Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

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 with a drastically reduced speed of light to show these effects. The images are calculated using ray tracing methods. The observer can move through scenes that consist of static and relativistically moving objects. With this tool, we are able to address common difficulties in the understanding of the special theory of relativity that arise in the treatment of e.g. the twin and ladder paradoxa.