Speed of Light

[TheMrCake]

My question is, whether the speed of light will be more relevant in Universe Sandbox 3.

For example: Will the light on earth will actually go off 8 minutes later when I delete the sun?

And will there be an velocity limit? (because I once set the mass of the sun to 20 times the mass of the Milky Way and then the earth suddenly was 1800 times faster than light.

Just to make Einstein happy 

[Hellpotatoe]

Kol your name.

About the light thingy, well, I don't think so. It would make the simulation very complex and stuff.

But yeah, velocity limit would be very good..

[TheMrCake]

Kol your name.

About the light thingy, well, I don't think so. It would make the simulation very complex and stuff.

What about my name?

The light from the sun would just expand in a sphere at the speed of light...
If the sun disappeared, it would stop emitting and then a "black" sphere would expand within the "light" one.
Only to mention that you cannot see those spheres but their reflections on an surface.

I don't see any problems here...

[tuto99]

My question is, whether the speed of light will be more relevant in Universe Sandbox 3.

For example: Will the light on earth will actually go off 8 minutes later when I delete the sun?

And will there be an velocity limit? (because I once set the mass of the sun to 20 times the mass of the Milky Way and then the earth suddenly was 1800 times faster than light.

Just to make Einstein happy 

This is a great suggestion. I hope Dan adds this to Ubox 3. 

[Hellpotatoe]

Kol your name.

About the light thingy, well, I don't think so. It would make the simulation very complex and stuff.

What about my name?

Its awesome 

[blotz]

we should have faster than the speed of light, as this is a "sandbox"

[tuto99]

we should have faster than the speed of light, as this is a "sandbox"

No.

[TheMrCake]

we should have faster than the speed of light, as this is a "sandbox"

Of course you would be able to turn that feature off.

[Darvince]

well 0.99c takes twice as much energy to move that speed than 0.98c so i hope we can have either newtonian (can go past c) or einsteinian (can approach c but never reach it)

[Dan Dixon]

If the sun suddenly disappeared it would take 8 minutes before Earth would feel that effect.

However in Universe Sandbox gravity (and what you see) is all displayed and simulated instantaneous.

It's an idea we've talked about, but is also problematic. According to Tony of Gravity simulator, not instantaneous Newtonian physics are unstable when simulated:
http://universesandbox.com/forum/index.php/topic,30.msg139.html#msg139