How Thin Can Speed Make Things? 2D Possibilities

[hsdrop]

it is said that when something gets closer to the speed of light the flatter that thing will look when it pass the observer. i was wondering how flat that thing could look and could truly be 2D ?

 

[phinds]

it is said that when something gets closer to the speed of light the flatter that thing will look when it pass the observer. i was wondering how flat that thing could look and could truly be 2D ?

Well, it can't get all the way to 0 thickness, so it is by definition 3D

 

[Ibix]

You can make the measured length of an object arbitrarily close to zero by making it travel fast enough. It never reaches zero, though.

How it actually looks is a rather complicated topic for an object moving near the speed of light because the object moves a significant distance in the time it takes light to cross the object, so you see different parts of the object at different places along its line of travel. I gather it actually looks rotated, at least to a first approximation.

 

[hsdrop]

thank you for the insite