{"id":2364,"date":"2008-03-12T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T08:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/12\/lorentz-contracted-asteroids\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T08:21:02","slug":"lorentz-contracted-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/12\/lorentz-contracted-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorentz Contracted Asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via email, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.referencegames.com\/\">Reference Games<\/a>, featuring two versions of the classic video game &#8220;Asteroids&#8221; (well, it&#8217;s a classic if you&#8217;re my age&#8230;). The cool wrinkle: light speed in the game is set to be very low, and you can toggle back and forth between the ship frame and the frame of the background stars, to see relativistic effects.<\/p>\n<p>With or without length contraction, I&#8217;m still terrible at video games, but it&#8217;s an amusing time-waster, and more plausibly work-related (for me) than playing poker on Facebook&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via email, Reference Games, featuring two versions of the classic video game &#8220;Asteroids&#8221; (well, it&#8217;s a classic if you&#8217;re my age&#8230;). The cool wrinkle: light speed in the game is set to be very low, and you can toggle back and forth between the ship frame and the frame of the background stars, to see&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/12\/lorentz-contracted-asteroids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lorentz Contracted Asteroids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}