(September 25, 2016 at 12:48 am)wiploc Wrote:(September 25, 2016 at 12:01 am)bennyboy Wrote: That's right. The photon didn't experience time because from its perspective the journey is infinitely short. WE see it as timeless because it literally is. Therefore. . . all things related by light are immalleable, therefore determinism. Ta da!
I can't make sense of that. Let's use a situation that won't make physicists laugh at us:
Joe and Sara are traveling (relative to each other) at a speed that makes each of them see the other's time pass at half speed.
Now, if I understand you, you are saying that one of them experiences less time because his journey is shorter, and the other one seems slow because it literally is? Is that your position? If so, I think you are confused.
Each will see the other as having slow time, and each will see the other as spatially distorted. Neither view is privileged. It isn't true that one of them is "really" slowed down and the other is "really" physically distorted.
Twin paradox.
