Terrell rotation or the Terrell effect is the visual distortion that a passing object would appear to undergo, according to the special theory of relativity, if it were travelling at a significant fraction of the speed of light. This behaviour was described independently by both Roger Penrose and James Edward Terrell. Penrose's article was submitted 29 July 1958 and published in January 1959.[1] Terrell's article was submitted 22 June 1959 and published 15 November 1959.[2] The general phenomenon was noted already in 1924 by Austrian physicist Anton Lampa.[3]
This phenomenon was popularized by Victor Weisskopf in a Physics Today article.[4]
Due to an early dispute about priority and correct attribution, the effect is also sometimes referred to as the Penrose–Terrell effect, the Terrell–Penrose effect or the Lampa–Terrell–Penrose effect, but not the Lampa effect.
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