Eli5 how does a photon not experience time when zooming toward point b? Wouldn’t other photons from point b passing it appear as time happening very quickly?

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Eli5 how does a photon not experience time when zooming toward point b? Wouldn’t other photons from point b passing it appear as time happening very quickly?

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It’s not a little pellet, it’s a ripple. It’s very hard to use material metaphors because they often don’t hold up. For instance, you think your speed is currently 0 but it’s actually 300MM m/s slower than light. Light is 0. Time is the condition of moving slower than light, the more slowly the motion the more time it endures.

So then you say, but light isn’t instant. It takes time for it to move. But that’s only for you, because you’re so slow. For it, everything is instantaneous and simultaneous.