Movie
Riding Light
“How Far Can Light Travel In 45 Minutes?”
8.0/10
2015
0h 45m
en
Animation
Documentary
Overview
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the surface of the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system, from a human perspective. Liberties were taken with certain things like the alignment of planets and asteroids, as well as ignoring the laws of relativity concerning what a photon actually "sees" or how time is experienced at the speed of light, but overall the size and distances of all the objects were kept as accurate as possible. It was also decided to end the animation just past Jupiter to keep the running length below an hour.
Director
Alphonse Swinehart
Movie Information
Release Date
January 1, 2015
Runtime
0h 45m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
2
