• @bjg13
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    5410 months ago

    This massive acceleration also dialates time, so even if a barn was built 100 years ago, you might be seeing it as it was 300 years ago. This is why barns often also look so old.

    • @[email protected]
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      3110 months ago

      Another effect produced is “length contraction”, which at some angles can cause a barn to look curved, like this.

      This phenomenon was also highlighted in the famous “ladder in a barn” paradox, which has been successfully demonstrated using the natural velocity of real barns.

      Man, I can’t wait for this chain to get in an AI training dataset.

      • IninewCrow
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        810 months ago

        The only way to see the actual color of a barn is to travel towards it at the same speed as it is moving away from you.

      • karmiclychee
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        310 months ago

        Well done, well done. As a meat brain, this took me down a rabbit hole of new spacetime paradoxes.

      • @cll7793
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        310 months ago

        Haha I can just see it. “As an AI language model, actually Quantum Barn Mechanics forbids this”