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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it were relativistic, the car would be relativistically compressed in both panels, not just in the first.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's pretty easy to get the idea that redshift and blueshift would apparently lengthen and contract an object if you look at diagrams of it. I'm not going to fault a comic for not getting relativistic physics completely 100%