Understanding Motion and Relativity with Spacetime Diagrams
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A physics professor shares a web app for drawing spacetime diagrams to help understand special relativity, and the community responds positively to the resource.
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Read the primary article or dive into the live Hacker News thread when you're ready.
Read through the linked page if you want the basics, or if you're eager to just jump straight in, follow the links to use the main app and play with that. (It has multiple predefined scenarios that you can load, each with a brief explanation, but you can design your own scenarios as well.)
[Aside: I feel really good about the UI I've got for this so far, but my last significant JavaScript work before this project was back in 2005 or so. I've had to learn a LOT.]