If light doesn’t experience time, how does it have a limited speed?
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So light, or massless particles that travel at the speed of light experience no time AND no distance. From a light particles “experience” it blinks into existence and out of existence when absorbed. A photon that from our vantage point that traveled 10 billion light years traveled that distance and took 10 billion years to get here. That is OUR perspective, from the light particle perspective it experience zero time and zero distance. This is called time dilation and length contraction. In relativity you have to look at the frame of reference. Our frame sees the time and distance, from the frame of reference of the photon it experience no time and no distance.
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