But.5 times the speed of light still gets you across solarsystem in 20 hours and even if we assume constant acceleration of 1m/s^2 you can go from earth to pluto in one month. I think that's pretty impressive compared to 10 years on current technology.
Using classical physics to simulate a black hole is useless, as all interesting effects around black holes are described using general theory of relativity. The correct way to do this would be using linear approximation of general relativity and using relativistic ray-tracer. I remember having seen that kind of simulations somewhere and looked nothing like this uncool 18th physics simulation combined with OpenGL effects.
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But .5 times the speed of light still gets you across solarsystem in 20 hours and even if we assume constant acceleration of 1m/s^2 you can go from earth to pluto in one month. I think that's pretty impressive compared to 10 years on current technology.
Using classical physics to simulate a black hole is useless, as all interesting effects around black holes are described using general theory of relativity. The correct way to do this would be using linear approximation of general relativity and using relativistic ray-tracer. I remember having seen that kind of simulations somewhere and looked nothing like this uncool 18th physics simulation combined with OpenGL effects.
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