Chronodrive console

CHRONOS relativistic time machine

core standby

Command a velocity as a fraction of light speed. Every readout below is the real special-relativistic value for that velocity: time dilation, length contraction, forward Doppler, and the distance your hull crosses while your own clock barely moves.

Current hull velocity

0.00000c

0 km/s|0.00% of console max

Commanded velocity0.00000c

idle

0c0.5c0.9c0.999cc

Time dilation

1.000ratio

Lorentz γ

1.00blueshift

Doppler

90°half-angle

Star cone

Ship clock (proper)00:00:00

Earth clock (coordinate)00:00:00

Chronometric drift00:00:00ahead

Distance covered0.0000ly

At 0.00000c, one ship-second equals 1.000 Earth-seconds. A round trip ages the crew far less than the world they return to - both clocks are integrated live from the current γ.

Local terminal

09:13:14[ SYS]chronodrive core online - awaiting throttle command

Field metrics

Kinetic energy0.00× mc²Energy cost above rest mass (γ − 1). The last sliver of c is effectively infinite.

Length contraction100.00mA 100 m rod as measured from the moving frame: L = L₀ / γ.

Forward blueshift1.00× freqLight from dead ahead shifts up by √((1+β)/(1−β)) - the view turns violet.

Inverse dilation1.0000ship/earthShip time per Earth second. Near c your clock nearly stops relative to home.

CHRONOS is a simulation. The drive that lets β change at will is fictional; every quantity derived from a given β - dilation, contraction, Doppler, aberration, energy - is the exact special-relativistic value for flat spacetime along one axis.