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Photons experience time as a single frozen instant

Original: We are MASSIVE! It takes time to understand how photons don't have a period of time called existence (pun intended). Fro

A physics discussion is circulating about how photons, which travel at the speed of light, do not experience time as we do. From a photon's perspective, emission from a source and absorption by an object happen at the same moment, since time does not pass for anything moving at light speed. Commenters are unpacking the implications for how we think about existence, time, and the limits of human intuition in relativity.

Why now: The counterintuitive idea that light itself experiences no passage of time makes for shareable science talk

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• We are MASSIVE! It takes time to understand how photons don't have a period of time called existence (pun intended). From their perspective "life" is a single frozen instant: they get emitted from the source and absorbed by an object they hit at the same moment. What does it… · blog@artieficr.com · 2

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