Gamow’s cyclist: a new look at relativistic measurements for binocular observer

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34 pointssohkamyung3 comments

What a lovely paper! I loved Mr Tompkins and spent a lot ot time in high thinking about how various things would look. Nothing this sophisticated of course so this was such a pleasure!

If you like the article, here are some videos I made a while ago, showing what might be seen by the traveler in the twin "paradox" as she leaves and returns to base (click "show more" to see the terse descriptive text): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGnzGhIWTGR-O332xj0s...

One of them is a 3D "Tompkins" view : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lZXFXWN37M&list=PLvGnzGhIWT...

View in 1080 rez to see the clocks etc.

That video make me feel unhinged.

And reminds me of http://www.memo.tv/works/fight/

> FIGHT! is a Virtual Reality artwork where the viewer’s two eyes are presented with radically different images, resulting in a phenomenon known as binocular rivalry. The conscious mind does not ‘see’ both images, but unpredictably alternates between them with unstable, patchy transitions depending on the viewer’s physiology.

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