The wheels are shortened by length contraction, but since the light hitting your eye from different parts of the wheel left at different times, the object you 𝑠𝑒𝑒 appears rotated & deformed
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This is what rolling wheels look like when they are rolling at 90% the speed of lightpic.twitter.com/Bos9SznIdM
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Are the shadows relativistic too?
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that's a good question! i think so! they used a ray tracing software that ought to take that into account so I believe so
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What equations did you use to simulate this?
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this is not my simulation!
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given 90% the speed of light am I correct in thinking that one would need to have a superhuman frame rate of ~2.7 x 10^8 fps to capture the wheels motion at this level of resolution?
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Oh man I used to make these all the time in mathematica
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Just add vaporwave!
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