Inaugural Professorial Lectures

IPL: Jorg Frauendiener: "Sightseeing in Einstein's World"


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Professor Frauendiener describes the way that the speed of light affects what is seen. Einstein's special theory of relativity suggests that various distortions occur when the viewer travels at close to the speed of light, including Lorantz contraction, aberration and doppler effects.
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Inaugural Professorial LecturesBy University of Otago