Light cone RSS feed

Light cone
“In general relativity, the future light cone is the boundary of the causal future of a point and the past light cone is the boundary of its causal past.” [Wikipedia]

Nothing can travel at the speed of light, therefore nothing can travel faster than light[1], therefore your impact on the universe at large can be measured as a sphere with radius ‘c‘ multiplied by your age, viz: the distance that light has travelled since you were born.

This website computes that distance, and tells you what stars are within that radius, updating week by week…

Cute.


[1] … unless it started out that way.

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One response to “Light cone RSS feed”

  1. One of my favourite graffitos, as seen on a poster advertising a colloquium, in the lift of the Bristol University Physics Department…

    The colloquium was entitled – and the title was shown in a rather larger font than usual – “Does Relativity Have a Future?”

    Below this, some wit had scrawled, “Or must it remain on the light cone?”

    🙂

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