Relativistic Starship
A first-person starship cockpit flying through a star field at speed beta = v/c. Every visible change is the exact Lorentz transform of the incoming photons: relativistic aberration bunches the stars toward the bow, the Doppler effect shifts forward stars blue and rear stars red, relativistic beaming brightens the forward field, and the corridor marker rings distort. A second panel shows the lab frame: your ship length-contracted along its motion, and twin clocks (ship vs lab) drifting apart by the Lorentz factor. Drag the throttle from a Newtonian crawl to 0.999 c and the sky transforms continuously.
WHAT TO TRY
- Vary each control and watch the rail readouts respond.
- Compare the diagnostic plot against the live scene.