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What's It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light? Part 1: The Broken View


You can't ride alongside a beam of light, and the reason why opens a door onto the strangest parts of relativity. A tour of rest frames, why a photon has no point of view, and how your speed reshapes reality itself.

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