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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I would imagine a photon is like a surfer riding a wave of “time”. The speed of the wave being at the speed of light. Maybe imagine each wave has an image frame on it as well. It would seem you would still experience the progression through time as it is a relative experience. If the surfer had a watch it would still appear to tick away at the normal rate relative to themselves. Everything around the surfer would still be propagating to them at the speed of light from other directions. So they would not be able to see any new waves from their origin and would see only the now relatively stationary waves of light unless they slowed down or changed trajectory. It would appear time stopped at the origin. When looking forward the events would appear to be occurring twice as fast as ordinarily and be color-shifted as well. In essence the time would appear to be warped depending on the direction viewed.
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