{"id":223289,"date":"2025-10-12T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-capture-rare-illusion-of-an-object-moving-at-99-9-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:04:44","slug":"physicists-capture-rare-illusion-of-an-object-moving-at-99-9-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/physicists-capture-rare-illusion-of-an-object-moving-at-99-9-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Physicists capture rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-capture-rare-illusion-of-an-object-moving-at-99-9-the-speed-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like \u2014 an optical illusion called the Terrell-Penrose effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like \u2014 an optical illusion called the Terrell-Penrose effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}