(September 23, 2016 at 11:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(September 23, 2016 at 11:46 pm)wiploc Wrote: If X moves at nearly the speed of light relative to you, then it will look to you like time almost stops for X.
But X's time will seem normal to X. To X, it will seem like your time nearly stopped.
So, to a photon (if we're going to ignore the division by zero) times stops for you, not for the photon.
You are forgetting spatial dilation.
Gee, thanks.
Quote:The apparent distance of the sun from which the photon is transmitted and the atom which receives the photon is zero in the photon's (hypothetical and kind of broken) frame of reference.
If there is no distance, then there is no reason to think the photon's time was stopped while it covered that distance.
