Under-warp jump to the Galaxy
What could a camera capture, if we jumped with it up by sudden “under-
warp” relativistic speed close to the
speed of the light? Well, despite it should break our neck immediately, cause, our body is not prepared for this sudden change, this is what would be close to the photographic result. And of course, only if we had extremely sensitive camera (working in time of the extreme acceleration), which would allow extremely short exposures to get this view in a very short fragment of second just after the start of the jump. Then the image would show the visual distortions experienced at such high speed. Theoretical jumper jumps up to the sky to the center of the
Milky Way in the zenith. Beside the Milky Way, there is noticeable the zodiacal light crossing the view to the bulb of Galaxy. From our perspective, everything aside around us should lengthen – the effect would be as more noticeable as we look out of the direction of our jump. Because the speed of the jump is substantial fraction of speed of the light, the light should be strongly affected by the
red shift, which will give to all sources of the light out of the jump direction reddish colors or even darken them (depending on the intensity). Otherwise, in the direction of the jump, everything will get brighter and bluish as the wavelengths of the light coming against the jump get shorter. This
blue shift would have even more dangerous effect cause the shortest wavelengths (shorter than blue visible light) will shift to the
gamma rays. Of course, some effects are bit exaggerated comparing to others on this image, but it’s just for better understanding and also because this is from
real picture with only changed projection and color balance in the center. Used Canon 6D Baader IR Modified, Samyang 24mm, f2.8, ISO 10000, 42×15 second panorama with rectilinear projection. Captured on 9th September 2015 at
Dqae Qare Farm in Botswana during expedition of
Safra-go.cz.
