![[Translate to English:] Visualisierung des Terrell-Penrose-Effekts](https://www.tuwien.at/fileadmin/_processed_/4/5/csm_TerrellPenrose_6f97ba0fc5.jpg)
In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated. Now, scientists have succeeded for the first time in reproducing the effect using laser pulses and precision cameras — at an effective speed of light of 2 meters per second.
When an object moves extremely fast — close to the speed of light — certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer apply. This is the central consequence of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity. The object then has a different length than when it is at rest, and time passes differently for the object than it does in the laboratory. All this has been repeatedly confirmed in experiments.
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