Photons and determinism, part 2

[bennyboy]

Doesn't calculus take care of that for us via limits?

You could try to perform a limit, but the Lorentz transformation matrices do not converge in the limit of boost factor -> infinity.

Hmmmm. Boost factor sounds like you're trying to relate a photon's reference with that of any massive object. I guess a photon's like a black hole in the sense that the rules break down.

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Relativity my dear bennyboy.

Movement isn't dependent on the time experienced by the moving object but by your time.

Photons may not experience time or distance (space) but all they need in order to 'move' is change in your spacetime.

Paradox solved.

MM

I don't think it's that easy. If we are relating two massive objects, there is always a non-zero amount of time in one frame whenever another has a non-zero amount of time. But a photon is non-massive, which is why it instantly "accelerates" to the speed of light. But that means we are relating zero time with non-zero time. So from the photon's "perspective," there's no possibility for any change or effect on it.