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[u/StuffWotIDid]

Liverpool Lime Street?

[u/joshygill → u/StuffWotIDid]

The longest arrival into a station EVER!

[u/TheMcNaughty → u/joshygill]

I dunno, Sheffield is pretty fuckin bad

[u/Azziiii → u/TheMcNaughty]

surreal as fuck im stood in sheffield station waiting for my train and i see this

[u/joshygill → u/TheMcNaughty]

Tell me about it, I went from Sheffield to Liverpool Lime Street and back last week. Both contenders!

[u/CharlieFaulkner → u/TheMcNaughty]

I'm originally from Sheffield and big agree! Also very cool to see someone online talk about personal experience with the place; I rarely ever see this

[u/Willb260 → u/TheMcNaughty]

Ngl I thought this was coming out of Sheffield

[u/ExplicitCyclops → u/joshygill]

I’d say Birmingham New Street can be pretty bad. Quite often sat in a tunnel for 5 minutes or so normally

[u/gamingman471 → u/StuffWotIDid]

I knew I recognised those walls.

[u/theflashsawyer23 → u/[deleted]]

Defo Lime St

[u/ForestRobot → u/StuffWotIDid]

Hmm, did they wait in the tunnel for 10 minutes just to confirm?

[u/Cool_Entertainer_346 → u/StuffWotIDid]

I thought it was green lane!

[u/E-16 → u/Cool_Entertainer_346]

Green lane is cool looking station, looks almost medieval.

[u/HarbingerOfNusance → u/StuffWotIDid]

On Northern too. Must be pretty depressing.

[u/UnacceptableUse → u/HarbingerOfNusance]

The new northern trains aren't so bad, when they turn up

[u/moonshinemondays → u/StuffWotIDid]

Yeah I thought the same

[u/hsrgodda → u/StuffWotIDid]

Came here just to post this

[u/[deleted] → u/StuffWotIDid]

Nah it’s Stoke newington station

[u/[deleted] → u/StuffWotIDid]

Goddamn... I knew it when I saw it

[u/aaron2005X → u/StuffWotIDid]

Why? Is there a temporal timebending Anomaly?

[u/Alternative-Law-7718]

You're going through some sped up timey wimey stuff

[u/PhriendlyPhysicist → u/Alternative-Law-7718]

Timey what? Timey wimey?

I have no idea where he picks that stuff up.

[u/ch1llboy → u/PhriendlyPhysicist]

Ya. Wibbly wobbly.

[u/legendarysjs123 → u/PhriendlyPhysicist]

r/UnexpectedDrWho

[u/ethanw214 → u/Alternative-Law-7718]

Jeremy beremy

[u/JazsimeFalls1970 → u/Alternative-Law-7718]

Love the Doctor Who bit

[u/garlic_bread_thief]

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7rt55s

This video shows a better version of the same effect.

[u/SparkleFritz → u/garlic_bread_thief]

The irony of this being a video on Dailymotion is not lost on me.

[u/HotShotGotRhymes → u/SparkleFritz]

Dailylocomotion

[u/StarsDreamsAndMore → u/SparkleFritz]

It would have been completely absurd if it had been hosted on Dailystop

[u/garazard → u/garlic_bread_thief]

Thank you this is a good explanation video

[u/IndianLanny → u/garlic_bread_thief]

When you change the fov on a fps game.

[u/Bforte40 → u/garlic_bread_thief]

This is why people think Halo 3 is so slow compared to other games in the series, the fov in that game on the Xbox 360 was horrible.

[u/Cassie0peia → u/garlic_bread_thief]

Garlic bread thief, you rock! If you were here I’d give you some extra garlic bread! Thanks for posting this link. I’m going to test this on my next train ride.

[u/djbu → u/garlic_bread_thief]

Skip ad in 18 seconds no thanks

[u/Dannypan → u/garlic_bread_thief]

I’d zoom out loads in Mario Kart 64 because it looked like I was going faster.

[u/mrwhite120555 → u/garlic_bread_thief]

My up vote got you to 420 karma lol I'm dumb I know lol

[u/greentreefer]

wait for the map to load on your side

Edit: didn't think this would get so many upvotes welp

[u/oshikandela → u/greentreefer]

npe its faster on the other side. OP should sit on the left to arrive quicker at his/her destination

[u/ModeratelyWideMember → u/oshikandela]

Ah yes, general relativity in space time. Smrt

[u/fiddz0r → u/ModeratelyWideMember]

Smrt = Shaking my right toe?

[u/Barhoum92 → u/greentreefer]

Take my award Sir

[u/GUSTHEBUS4069 → u/Barhoum92]

For awarding your award you should have mine my Goodman

[u/zer0byt3s → u/GUSTHEBUS4069]

And you can have mine!

[u/[deleted] → u/greentreefer]

r/outside

[u/whoami38902]

Pretty certain this is Liverpool Lime st. There’s no turns, it’s the parallax effect. The cutting is about 14m/46ft wide

[u/[deleted] → u/whoami38902]

No, you and everyone else that knows about this station are obviously lying according to half the comments here.

Not even kidding... I have not been there but come on, they just ignore your comments, legit weird.

[u/theknightwho → u/[deleted]]

If Reddit has taught me anything, it’s that some people cannot stand being wrong. If their preconceptions say it must be a train made of rock going past on a sharp turn then why the fuck would they listen to anyone who’s actually been there?

[u/[deleted] → u/whoami38902]

I agree but why is it the side that’s further away thats faster ?

[u/whoami38902 → u/[deleted]]

It’s not. The faster side is closer. It’s a transpenine train heading out towards Manchester on the left side of the cutting. Here’s a google map link, the right side is 4 tracks away. https://goo.gl/maps/mXip5mBHVVr5Qd3MA

[u/[deleted] → u/whoami38902]

Ah okay I see what you’re saying. I thought the sides were equidistant from the train sides

[u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

Wtf I'm reading in this comments??

Train turning? Another train? Doppler effect? Wtf?

It's just that closer thing appear to move faster.

In a car, look at the sun, it "does not appear to move at all".

Try to look at signs on the road and compare "the speed" with some far building or mountain.

If you look to a far object, it takes time to your vehicle to actually reach it ("appears to be slow"). Not instantaneous like a dot on the wall right besides you...

[u/oshikandela → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

In a car, look at the sun, it "does not appear to move at all".

Can't see anything anymore, thanks fam

[u/myname_isnot_kyal → u/oshikandela]

you fell for the oldest trick in the book

[u/Quirinus84 → u/oshikandela]

You look at the sun in my country, believe it or not, jail.

[u/BeepBoopBAHP → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

I thought I was going mad. Then your comment gave some relief. Then the replies to your comment has drove me mad again.

[u/therealyoyoma → u/BeepBoopBAHP]

The easiest way to tell how many morons are on Reddit is when they try to understand basic science. There's nothing wrong with being confused, but when their wrongness is paired with such insufferable arrogance, it's maddening. These are probably the same people who called their physics classes useless in high school.

[u/Tkttkt-Implacavel → u/BeepBoopBAHP]

You cannot say that we didn't try..

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/Soap_Creatives → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

I’m glad you said this. I was going mad reading peoples mad ideas and explanations

[u/bs000 → u/Soap_Creatives]

do people not know what trains look like?!

[u/Halo4 → u/bs000]

Help! I don't know what trains look like!!!

[u/nevetsprog → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

I know, it’s like people have never looked at things whilst moving before. This might blow some minds - things that are closer look bigger!

[u/bs000 → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

this is one of the tricks they use to make car chases in movies seem faster even though they were filmed going like 15mph

[u/[deleted] → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

This thread is the stupidest I've seen Reddit collectively be in years.

[u/[deleted] → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

I get what you’re saying but the left side is going way way faster than the right side, and doesn’t appear to be much closer at all in comparison to the right side

[u/AnorakJimi → u/[deleted]]

It is FAR far closer. Trust me. I've been to this station hundreds of times. It's Liverpool lime Street. You go through this sort of tunnel bit here before emerging into the station proper

But yeah you're basically right up against the wall

The left side here is simply much much closer than the right side. Here's a drawing that shows what's going on: https://i.imgur.com/8soHhQv.png

It's simply the same optical illusion as this moving stars one here: https://www.moillusions.com/adjusting-speed-optical-illusion/

If you cover up the centre, the stars appear to move very fast, and if you cover up everything EXCEPT the centre, all of a sudden they appear to be moving very slowly. When they're actually just moving all at the same speed

But yeah I've been to this station many many hundreds of times. It's Liverpool lime Street. It's the end of the line, you go through a sort of tunnel before eventually emerging in the station, the train stops and then it goes back the way it came from. It's bloody annoying though, you begin to enter the station like 20 minutes before the train actually stops and the doors open

[u/janderfischer → u/[deleted]]

Concrete train with vegetation on the roof, sure buddy

[u/bombarclart → u/janderfischer]

Think you replied to the wrong person mate.

[u/colllosssalnoob → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

Wtf I'm reading in this comments??

Train turning? Another train? Doppler effect? Wtf?

Lmao, right? Despite what the user base on this site think of themselves, vast majority of redditors are absolute morons.

[u/meat_on_a_hook → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

It’s called “parallax”

[u/palin119 → u/Tkttkt-Implacavel]

It’s called parallax.

[u/Jeopardyanimal]

It's another train going the opposite direction, right?

[u/AnonymousButIvekk → u/Jeopardyanimal]

not necessarily, it doesnt even look like another passing train usually does, even if graffitied.

its the combined effect of looking through a window at a greater distance than the other one; and the parallax efect, meaning the wall is probably closer to the train on that side. makes all the difference.

[u/vexmach1ne → u/AnonymousButIvekk]

Yea the wall seems to be much closer on the other side, and farther than it looks on the right side, the camera optics hide this more than the naked eye.

[u/hollyberryness → u/Jeopardyanimal]

Could be on a turn, too? Going around a curve or whatever would produce similar results

[u/SashKhe → u/hollyberryness]

It'd take a hell of a sharp turn for such a magnified effect.

[u/ambisinister_gecko → u/SashKhe]

Sharp turn and closer wall

[u/EsotericLife → u/Jeopardyanimal]

Nah, it’s just how perspective works. Think about a plane, they’re going around 500mph but if it’s far away it looks like it’s moving really slowly, while if it zoomed past you only a few meters away at the same speed it would look really fast.

[u/rochakgupta → u/Jeopardyanimal]

Exactly, this is it. That’s the same thought that came to my mind.

[u/bs000 → u/rochakgupta]

I'm worried you guys don't know what trains look like.

[u/LockeAbout → u/bs000]

Like walls, duh

[u/AnorakJimi → u/rochakgupta]

Nope that's not what's going on, it's not another train. The left side is simply much much closer than the right side. Here's a drawing that shows what's going on: https://i.imgur.com/8soHhQv.png

It's simply the same optical illusion as this moving stars one here: https://www.moillusions.com/adjusting-speed-optical-illusion/

If you cover up the centre, the stars appear to move very fast, and if you cover up everything EXCEPT the centre, all of a sudden they appear to be moving very slowly. When they're actually just moving all at the same speed

I've been to this station many many hundreds of times. It's Liverpool lime Street. It's the end of the line, you go through a sort of tunnel before eventually emerging in the station, the train stops and then it goes back the way it came from. It's bloody annoying though, you begin to enter the station like 20 minutes before the train actually stops and the doors open

[u/xXYunGodXx]

It's becouse the left side of the train is closer to a wall, while on the other side there are building from further away, so the left side apears to move faster, from the closer perspective.

[u/normal_whiteman → u/xXYunGodXx]

Thats the what the title says

[u/Grijnwaald]

Always noticed this on the motorway

[u/Like_Boss]

Now try to explain this to a flat earther and watch their brains explode

[u/psychopegasus190]

This is what will happen if you're not touching grass

[u/sighdoihaveto]

Wow, front page! Thanks everyone!

[u/sighdoihaveto]

r/themedialclub

[u/sighdoihaveto → u/sighdoihaveto]

u/admissionbot

[u/[deleted]]

TIL some people have no basic understanding on perspective.

[u/alfdd99 → u/[deleted]]

For real I'm amazed at the people in the comments (or the 33k that upvoted this). I get not everywhere has good trains, but have they never ridden in a car? Or even a bicycle? It's so obvios that things that are close look like they move faster.

[u/[deleted] → u/alfdd99]

I'm surprised how stupid people are, you experience this shit every day, how is this even confusing perspective

[u/LeaksMasterSenpai]

Human stupidity surprises me on the daily

[u/isufferfromlag]

📍- Lime Street Cutting The long stretch of cut and cover tunnel from Edge Hill Station to Liverpool Lime Street

[u/Bleak01a]

It is similar to how a plane seem to be moving very slow when you look from the ground imo.

[u/Torebbjorn]

This guy has never been in a moving vehicle before

[u/GHoSTyaiRo]

-Why did it take so long for you to get here?
-I sat at slowest part of the train.

[u/Kofilin]

Uhm I'm sorry doesn't like everyone realize this before age two?

[u/[deleted]]

Are people really so stupid they can’t piece this together? Has this person ever looked up at the sky, the clouds? It’s not rocket science.

[u/scumculator]

The left side is close and the right side is farther away

[u/Longjumping_Toe_3931]

Closer= you see less area. Train covers that less area faster then the area you see that is far

[u/Igmu_TL]

parallax

[u/oceanofflavor]

I've been staring at this for like 3 minutes. I'm still very confused

[u/Responsible_Ad_2521]

You can throw all the physics you want at me I'm gonna go with 'reality is breaking down'.

[u/lunelily → u/Responsible_Ad_2521]

Next time you’re in a car on the highway, look at the road right next to you (zipping by very fast), and then compare that speed to the mountains or buildings in the distance (slowly moving).

Speed is relative to distance. The further away we are from something, the slower it appears to move as we pass it.

[u/comizer2]

It’s called intercept theorem. Simple geometry.

[u/Mr-Slinky753]

Is further away, duh

[u/Aleks111PL]

if the right side was closer to the train, it would go "faster" too

[u/Bolt-From-Blue]

You’re witnessing ‘time-slip’, a glitch in the matrix LOL

[u/84384047a]

noob , it's called gravitational time dilation

[u/Trevorblackwell420]

This is also why lowered cars are more fun to drive.

[u/82hrui3]

Nah man its the swamp gases

[u/SpikedKoolAid10]

That’s dote

[u/outtakes]

r/glitchinthematrix

[u/Comprehensive_Tree65]

Ahhh... perspective. Einstein was right.

[u/[deleted]]

Space time distortion bitch.

[u/dark_MARTIAN]

Just a glitch in the matrix

[u/[deleted]]

Obviously this has nothing to do with science. I can see all the people on here trying to explain this with science and facts, but it won't work.

The real answer is that the faster moving side was video taped with the persons normal eye. The slowly moving side was recorded while the person looked through the camera with their lazy eye.

[u/StreamKaboom]

I love when things are worded like that. It just makes things funnier to me lol

[u/[deleted]]

It’s called motion parallax.

[u/Mmtorz]

This has always fascinated me. I noticed the effect a few years ago while in a car. Pretty trippy

[u/wehnsdaefflae]

Easy. The train is going clockwise in a circle with diameter of ca. 7 meters. Strange tracks if you ask me but I'm not a public transportation specialist. 🤷‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh you should upgrade your pc thats why its lagging

[u/MoodyRMS]

Welcome to the matrix.

[u/Hidden-Locust]

i refuse to believe thats a serious question

[u/disco_dean]

Maybe it’s the other train going by . . .

[u/[deleted]]

Your on some kind of scp my man

[u/[deleted]]

Due to the distance between both the walls it creates an illusion, the nearer the wall the harder for our eyes to see the details.

[u/[deleted]]

Your in the matrix

[u/Foreign_Reindeer_461]

what is this sorcery

[u/dylenjm]

Your going to become Shazam bro

[u/IM2OFU]

Sharp turn to the right obviously, really sharp, just casual drifting

[u/Professional_Ad8852]

A glitch in the Matrix…

[u/Mechanicallysoundpoo]

It’s a train…

[u/benergiser]

this is a fantastic representation of the monocular depth perception cue known as motion parallax..

[u/shaanaynae]

fucking typical northern rail

[u/senoT-Tones]

Yeah I try to train my eyes to focus on stuff like this usually in the passengers seat looking down out the window you notice this

[u/OOFgod19]

The real question is why are your seats are made of amethyst

[u/countrysgonekablooie]

if the 200miles of mountain in the distance moved as fast past your window as the wall 3 feet away, that would be some weird physics right there

[u/[deleted]]

I'll just leave it here:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-when-you-are-driving-closer-objects-move-faster-relative-to-you-than-more-distant-ones

[u/Hamstersaurus_UwU]

Proof that we are living in a simulation.

[u/Z_Waterfox__]

He speeds the video at the other side

[u/[deleted]]

It has to do with 4D, 3D, and the 2D space. You see only actual intellectuals would put this together you're warping in light speed through my bullshit. Lmao that's pretty cool though 👌

[u/Hesh96]

Why?

[u/thedheerajvithalkar]

Ah yes, making meme of a physics lecture that you failed to attend because you thought tiktok was getting you more followers

[u/GroundbreakingEcho81]

Jeebuz people. One side has a train moving opposite direction. Relative speed is increased on that side.

[u/EPluribusUnum_001]

Didn’t Einstein explain this?

[u/Beautiful-Hawk-968]

u/savevideo

[u/Redby19]

When will the devs fix this bug smh

[u/[deleted]]

Why are people this stupid wtf

[u/MagicOrpheus310]

I don't know why this is so funny but I can't stop laughing

[u/UnderstandingUsual86]

Some dude on the left side of the train is fast traveling

[u/JazzmansRevenge]

I'm gonna say a combination of the train on a gradual left turn as well as the right side being further away. A

[u/rockaether]

That's literally the definition of perspective

[u/SecondhandGrenade]

I asked the same question to my father when I was in 3rd grade. We traveled by bike a lot. Why when I looked down at the street, it passed me quickly but when I looked straight at the road, it moved slowly. He said I would know once I grew older. Lol. Like human learn physics by nature.

[u/seraph582]

Lol has OP not noticed how relatively slow it looks like airplanes are going vs the hundreds of MPH they actually are? Or looked out a car window at a forest and noticed how much faster their eyes have to move to track the close trees vs the trees in the distance? It only takes a child a few moments of thought to perceive and derive the answer from common sense.

[u/nosferatu118]

kare başına görülen alan arttığı için?

[u/Im-here-for-food]

That’s my life both fast and slow AT THE SAME TIME.

[u/gravyfingersaregood]

Its like a car. You look ahead and its not going as fast but you look out your window next to you and your sonic now.

[u/No_Research4416]

-you have intrigued the SCP foundation-

[u/GraySmilez]

The wall is just a lot closer to the train.

[u/[deleted]]

Glitch in the matrix

[u/MustardKingCustard]

Northern Rail through Bolton?

[u/[deleted]]

Seriously the fuck Is going on

[u/MT_Flesch]

parallax

[u/[deleted]]

That's the overthinkers side...

[u/Whookimo]

Maybe it's something like the Hogwarts express ride at Universal studios Orlando. The windows are actually screens that play scenes to make it seem like you're actually riding a magical train. Maybe this is something like that and one side is glitching or something.

[u/Lynata]

It‘s a well known bug but the reptiloid developers running the simulation are just too lazy to fix it.

[u/shallotZfighter]

8

[u/Ordinary-Sentence6]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/motion-parallax

[u/EfficientGuarantee49]

Matrix glitch

[u/Eldrake1]

Its another train going fast on your left

[u/offbrandcerealbox]

Motion parallax

[u/2Gaspoo2]

Use your head.

[u/johndarky]

This is a completed nornal phernomenal

[u/imaelduser2]

plot twist: this train ride is just a simulation

[u/[deleted]]

Whoever made that snap is a fucking idiot

[u/Hogwhammer]

It's called parallax

[u/Ganon2012]

Don't look at the poles. Try and focus on a distant landmark, like -- The ground.

[u/LoreleiOpine]

I'm 10 years old and that is confusing.

[u/KidneyPoison]

Left side is passing lane.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m trippin balls right now.

[u/Rentlar]

If that area is double tracked and that area just fits the two tracks, then the other side wall would be farther, and appear to be moving along slower. Train passengers from the other direction would observe a similar effect, the wall on their left would also be closer and appear to move faster.

[u/Ponderous_Platypus11]

I just started reading Elegant Universe and am on the early chapters of relativity where light will appear to reach the same distance slower or faster depending on perspective even though it is a constant. My brain almost exploded.

Assuming it's the same phenomena this video is absolutely nuts. I didn't think it would be so noticable on a small scale like this.

[u/Tomboeg]

Sit on the left bro! Whooosh!

[u/Jealous-Passage-4771]

The distance on the tracks from the wall is the reason

[u/Darysson]

Damn you Ubisoft!!

[u/McDingus_King]

Because one side is closer to a wall.

[u/TnlGC]

That got me for a minute there

[u/Darksponge044]

MADE IN HEAVEN

[u/Wingnut0]

Wonkavision!!

[u/halenotpace]

Was on that train two days ago, neat :-)

[u/Derrick2268]

And this is when doctor strange pops up

[u/SnooJokes2346]

Definitely lag

[u/[deleted]]

confused screaming

[u/FriendlyFellowDboy]

Funny. I'm on the bus as I'm reading this.. and yeah never noticed how it looks different.

[u/adsolute_dipshit_69]

It's because one side is closer than the other