Hyperbolic Spacetime by djfilms

Vue • Surrealism • posted on Jul 12, 2006

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This is a depiction of the distortion of spacetime when a spacecraft undergoes constant acceleration: spacetime bunches up and the motion is called "hyperbolic". The pages are the genuine mathematics from an article I'm writing on the effect. For those who may care, there's an animation of the spacraft's worldline and a pdf of the scientific paper (WIP) at http://www.djfilms.ca/MainScreens/physics.html Hands up all those still awake...