This mind-bending visual twist, known as the Terrell–Penrose effect, was first proposed in 1959 by physicists James Terrell ...

That’s why we enjoyed [Michel van Biezen’s] two part post on how Michelson computed the speed of light in 1927. You can see the videos below. Michelson wasn’t the first, of course.

In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over. The Special Theory of Relativity, or special ...