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      Time Travel: Time Dilation

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      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014) (EVA)
      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014)
      8 - 10 July 2014
      Time dilation, Time travel, General relativity, Special relativity, Visual thinking, Photography, Visualisation, Practice–based research, Art
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            In this paper I discuss the theory and actuality of the effects of Time Dilation, as predicted by Einstein’s Special Relativity. Alongside this the research investigates the visible, experiential effects of most personal form of Time Travel from a personal, phenomenological perspective, illustrated through digital media. The body of work, this paper and an accompanying book of modified digital images, recalls the Hafele-Keating experiment of October 1971 and parallels the Quantified Self experiments of diary photography and personal analytics in a holistic, interconnected way. The work tracks 12 months of air travel and illustrates with practical data the physics and mathematics behind the theory and actuality of Time Dilation. The research combines the interdisciplinary worlds of Computer Arts with Data and Scientific Visualisation to create a tangible collision between the visualisation of the personal and illustration of theory The observations are documented in ethnographic, photo essay illustrations as an investigation into the mathematics and physics of personal and interpersonal time. Using situated imaging presented as a practice-based body of work to communicate the abstract world of very small time periods and the direct relevance of Einstein's work on the personal and perceptual world we inhabit. Contrasting Newtonian mechanics and Einsteinian space-time the work seeks to illustrate the personal nature of how the reality of time travel influences every aspect of the interpersonal

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            Conference
            July 2014
            July 2014
            : 171-175
            Affiliations
            [0001]University of the West of England

            Department of Computer Science and Creative Technology

            Coldharbour Lane

            Bristol, UK
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVA2014.40
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            © Daniel Buzzo et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014), London, UK

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            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014)
            EVA
            London, UK
            8 - 10 July 2014
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014)
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Practice–based research,Art,Special relativity,General relativity,Visualisation,Time travel,Photography,Visual thinking,Time dilation

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