Well, your eyes would be fried well before you reach 95%. Apparently the blueshift would make quite a lot of ionizing radiation. Hard to replicate on your phone ;)
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Hard to replicate on your phone ;)
Yeah thankfully sRGB doesn't extend into gamma rays
I think there is an app to enable that on the Apple Vision Pro.
Neat visuals but I don't think this is in any way accurate... Tell me how I crossed all those lightyears in about 60 seconds while only traveling at around 95% the speed of light.
It simulates at 1 year per second, 31 million times normal speed.
Each second is one year on your spaceship. Look in the lower right corner.
Relativity? A light year is a measurement of distance, not time. A ship traveling at.95C would only take 4 months to travel 1 light year from the perspective of the crew. To outside observers it would take a over a year.
Very cool, but tap target for acceleration is hard for me to hit.
Works better in the normal mobile browser outside of kemmy. For me.
For me, it only works in Firefox, while both Chrome and the WebView, fail with a WebGL error.
It is a PITA and should really be a slider. The site should also have a reset button.
After leaving it on for about 4-5 hours, and reaching several screenwraps worth of sigfigs, speed reset to 0, but time did not. I just wanted to see what happens, so that's all I really wanted.
Yeah, but what's after that?
You become a photon?
The only known way to convert 100% of matter into photons, is a matter-antimatter annihilation. You are bound to encounter some antimatter over enough light years of travel, but it isn't clear whether it would be enough to annihilate all your matter, and the ship's matter (there doesn't seem to be too much antimatter out there).
At some much earlier point though, you're going to receive such an amount of high energy radiation, that the whole ship and its occupants, are going to turn into a ball of plasma... including the engines, so no more accelerating from there on.
That ball of plasma is going to collide with interstellar dust at quite high speed/energy levels, just like in a collider, with the particles breaking apart and creating a cascade, of photons and other particles, that will quickly decay and/or coalesce into other ones.
So you will become a photon, even a lot of photons, and while some would escape in random directions, the plasma cloud would dissipate and slow down over some distance, becoming mostly interstellar dust itself.
And time itself.