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What happens when you travel close to the speed of light?

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According to special relativity, you will first of all experience less time than slow stuff (time dialation). Objects around you will lengthen relative to your contraction (length contraction). Colour of objects around you will blue shift or red shift, depending if you're looking forward or backward (Doppler shift).

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