"Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> > nemesis wrote:
> > > You know this deserves an animation, right? :)
> > >
> > > even a simple rotation will do, please... :)
> >
> >   Actually that would break so many laws of physics that it hurts.
> >
> >   For the whole group of galaxies to rotate in a short time (or,
> > alternatively, for the camera to go around them), the speeds involved
> > would make the speed of light be like the speed of continental drift to
> > a squirrel. Not to talk that even if they (or the camera) could move
> > that fast, the resulting image would be... interesting.
>
> This is actually doable, theoretically, thanks to relativistic time dilation.
> The challenges will be:

[snip challenges]

> Bon Voyage!

Poor fools. All you need to do is use your hyperdrive to circumnavigate the
universe, dropping out occasionally to take a photo, then return to earth in
time for a cup of tea before lunch.

;-)

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