13th November 2012, 5:50 AM
Ever had trouble imagining what it would be like to ride on a beam of light? Well MIT just put together an open source game where you run around a small village picking up orbs. Every time you pick up an orb, the universal speed of light slows down, so pretty soon you're seeing relativistic effects at walking speed. Freaky.
http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)