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Take a mind-bending ride through the cosmos at light speed

In this video from the YouTube channel ScienceClic, the French visual artist and educator Alessandro Roussel takes viewers on a voyage from Earth deep into the cosmos aboard a speculative – yet theoretically possible – spacecraft approaching the speed of light. Through polished 3D visuals and concise, well-researched explanations, the short explores how the laws of the Universe would manifest at such extreme and unfamiliar speeds, including what humans on board such a craft would see and how time would dilate. Through this immersive, reality-bending journey, Roussel probes the limits of what we know about reality, and indeed the limits of reality itself.

Director: Alessandro Roussel

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