OK maybe ELI12 would do.
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What a bunch of bologna in this thread!
* *”A photon experiences no time”*
* *”To a photon, the universe is compressed into a flat 2D space”*
Nonsense! This is not physics!
A photon does not experience anything, and we can’t construct a photon frame of reference. People are taking the “limit” solution of relativistic effects, but you can’t just do that. One of the fundamental postulates of relativity itself is that the speed of light is the same for everyone (= there is no photon reference frame). The rest of relativity follows. You can’t use those *new* rules, based on the assumption that there is no photon frame, and apply them to the photon frame, and expect a meaningful answer. The whole machinery breaks down in the process. As is evident by all the wishwashy explanations in here to the thousands of paradoxes which emerge as soon as you try to talk about photon frames.
It can be fun to *speculate* about photon reference frames, but it has *nothing* to do with relativity. It is the complete *opposite* of relativity. And unless someone has some groundbreaking physics to share, this thread belongs in the philosophy department.
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