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Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well, I mean, I would have launched it first (as an AAA game), but I'm no game developer. 🤷 And neither are they, from the looks of it. Good at perpetually raking in money for himself and his family, though!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why they have momentum since they don't have mass

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You know that old E=mc² equation? That's actually only the simplified "rest" half of it. The full equation that relativity gives us says E²=m²c⁴+p²c². Meaning if it has energy, it definitely has mass (m), momentum (p), or both.

For a massless particle like a photon, that means E=pc, and its momentum is proportional to its energy and therefore frequency/wavelength.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Weird math bullshit.

But in essence, because they carry energy they must have momentum. It's why they can impart momentum on what they hit, because momentum must be preserved.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-physics/chapter/29-4-photon-momentum/