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🚀 Relativistic Starflight: Aberration, Doppler Colour and Headlight Beaming Lab (2D)

What a starship pilot sees near the speed of light: relativistic aberration squeezes the sky ahead, the Doppler shift recolours the stars and an isotropic lamp becomes a headlight. Includes 1 g flip-and-burn trips with a Minkowski diagram.

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Relativistic Starflight: Aberration, Doppler Colour and Headlight Beaming Lab (2D) ↗ Open standalone
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What a starship pilot sees near the speed of light: relativistic aberration squeezes the sky ahead, the Doppler shift recolours the stars and an isotropic lamp becomes a headlight. Includes 1 g flip-and-burn trips with a Minkowski diagram.

Special RelativityAberrationDoppler ShiftTime DilationStarflight

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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