Toward a Relativistic Game Engine

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An idea for a program I’ve wanted to write for some time now: a game with a physics engine that properly handles special-relativistic behavior.

This demo only shows length contraction (and not perfectly—you’ll notice that the sprites jump a little bit when there are abrupt changes in acceleration). I’m working on time dilation now, but it’s a much trickier problem. If you are a physics major / SR buff / at all interested please let me know—I need to talk to somebody who has a better sense of how all this is actually supposed to behave.

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