So at half the speed of light, time dilatation isn't strong enough to counteract the Doppler effect of an approaching clock. It results in you seeing the said clock ticking faster than your own clock.
It wasn't that hard to solve in fact... but words like "Einstein special relativity" and "time dilatation" can sound scary enough to discourage one from even trying.
Reminds me when I first saw a friend of mine use 3dsmax; "oh, you know 3dsmax ?" did I asked him. It never even occurred to me that a programmer could "allow himself" to model something.
He was not only a great programmer who knew 3d modelling, he especially knew no frontiers in his head.
No shop in Paris that would unlock our brand new console? Let's grab a soldering iron, unmount a BIOS and do this ourself!
See, as a kid I used to be really bad at math. A conviction repeatedly confirmed by my grades. Then, at 11, came this geometry problem that most students got wrong, but I didn't.
Probably because geometry was a new course, and there was no preconception of who was supposed to be good at it or not.
It almost felt as if I'd cheated: I grasped the essence of some concept instead of rehearsing, and all of a sudden I got it.
From there on I started getting super grades in math.
Programming felt a bit the same: something from another planet, an aficionado realm. But hey, let's still try to grasp some concepts, try to bounce the cursor on the screen just for fun.
It ended up becoming my day job, obviously.
And when years later, this guy looked over my shoulder as I was modelling a castle in 3dsmax and asked me "aren't you supposed to be a programmer ?", I knew exactly what he meant.
We easily get trapped by labels, categories or scary words, to the point where we convinced ourselves that "this is for others".
Programming, music, woodworking, appliance repair, medicine, writing, physics, surfing, car racing, drawing ...etc.
The clock ticks too fast to stay in a bubble with your name on it.
