This is obviously just for fun, but I was thinking about this problem in Voidspace and for a moment I thought "what if I just slowed down processing in those cells so that you'd actually move slower but you would still be moving at that faster speed relative to everything else around you".

That's when I realized the parallel to real life, as you approach the speed of light IRL the world around you slows down and if you manage to reach the speed of light the world around you would actually stop.

r/showerthoughts is calling

Edit: Just had another thought. The insane energy requirements to push something the speed of light could also be there to not troll other players with a slow gameworld - which we'd also need to have.

Edit 2: FWIW, my r/showerthoughts have NEVER been very popular ^^

Edit 3: My colleague Oskar asked me to please not ask him to implement special relativity so close to a release lol