Riding Light
Overview
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective. Liberties were taken with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually "sees" or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall the size and distances of all the objects were kept as accurate as possible. It was also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter to keep the running length below an hour.
Release date
01/01/2015
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The Faraway Nearby
The Sun
Cielo
Living Worlds
Tma nad zlato
Wonders of the Moon
Splendour of the Heavens
Free Will
Hawking: Can You Hear Me?
Europe to the Stars
Secrets of the Solar System
Passage of Venus
400 Years of the Telescope
Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
Hubble: Thirty Years of Discovery
Our Violent Sun
Fermilab: Science at Work
Voyager: Never Ending Journey
The Magnet Has Secrets
CERN