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by gapeslape 159 days ago
This reminds me of an idea I had a few days ago. Imagine a world where speed of light:

- is small compared to human level speeds (say 2km/h / 1.25mph)

- things could move faster than the speed of light.

I really wonder how it would feel to explore this world visually. For example:

- an object in front of me accelerates from 0 to above the speed of light

- I'm in a car, looking backwards, going from 0 to above the speed of light

I guess one could easily simulate that in a virtual world, no?

1 comments

This is awesome, thanks!

I wonder if you could make it multiplayer and then get the effects of time dilation?

In my imagined world I also wanted to explore speeds above the speed of light. You could just stick to galilean transformation, take a very low speed of light and go from there. The world you get should be pretty bizarre.

I suppose the problem in multiplayer is that everyone has the same wall clock time, so you couldn't easily have consistent time dilation and related effects such as the twin paradox.