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Canonical Collision
In this simulation, two light bullets are initially separated
in space but have opposing velocities in the moving reference
frame such that they collide. (In the laboratory reference frame, the
right-most light bullet is travelling faster than the left-most bullet,
the collision ocurring when it overtakes the slower pulse.) The light
bullets survive the nonlinear collision although a fraction of the energy
is dissipated into the surrounding volume; this released radiation is not evident
in the images due to the colour cutoff mentioned earlier.
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