Strange 'Terrell-Penrose Effect' Observed in Lab For the First Time, in New Confirmation of Einstein’s Special Relativity

Strange 'Terrell-Penrose Effect' Observed in Lab For the First Time, in New Confirmation of Einstein’s Special Relativity

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated a phenomenon known as the Terrell-Penrose effect, which causes an object moving close to the speed of light to warp before our eyes. The new findings, a collaboration between TU Wien and the University of Vienna, once again confirm a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity by making an optical illusion of relativistic motion observable for the first time. Terrell-Penrose Effect According…

Astounding effect: Physicists have for the first time made visible an effect of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, which had already been postulated in 1959. Thus, objects are shortened at almost the speed of light – but they only appear twisted in snapshots. In an experiment with lasers and high-speed cameras, the researchers have now for the first time visualized this so-called Terrell-Penrose effect directly – and thus confirmed the the…