Interesting.

"By using ultrafast lasers, high-speed cameras and precision-timing systems, we mimicked relativistic speeds and made the Terrell-Penrose effect visible for the first time. Our results were published in Communications Physics in May 2025."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-special-relativity-effect-observed-for-the-first-time/

#Physics #Relativity #TerrellPenroseEffect #LorenzContraction

@mybirdcards A Daurian Redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus). Spotted some in Shanghai, China.

My iNaturalist observation [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/325029074 ].