Riding Light is a film that lasts 45 minutes and shows how it would look to find the location of a photon that travels from the sun all the way to Jupiter.
- The country, the speed of light works incredibly fast, but when viewed from the perspective of the unseen universe, then you can look even slow, says Alphonse Svajnhart animator.
- This animation is a journey of a photon of light that travels in real time starting from the sun.
Although the video does not describe what would happen to us if we could travel at the speed of light, it uses accurate distances and speeds that will bring the size of the solar system.
- In the animation with a degree of freedom deployed asteroids and planets, but their size and distance is made as accurately as possible, says Svajnhart who decided photon to travel just to Jupiter for this video take less than an hour.
In the upper corner lev can track the distance traveled and the time passed since the photon is "born" in the core of the sun. In the upper right corner, it is counting down the time until the next meeting with a planet.
Svajnhart, renowned animator from Los Angeles, was inspired to do just such a video reading many books related to astronomy.
- After reading several books on astronomy and looked several documentary films, I wanted to illustrate how light is indeed slow compared with the dimensions of the universe.