RE: Photons and determinism, part 2
February 25, 2015 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2015 at 5:03 pm by bennyboy.)
(February 25, 2015 at 1:09 pm)Surgenator Wrote:Sure. For the reason you just described: light moves at "c" in all reference frames, but nothing moves in its own reference frame. We can respond to this in one of two ways: 1) a photon doesn't have a reference frame; 2) a photon, in its own reference frame, is not light as we normally think of it, but a different kind of thing.(February 25, 2015 at 6:41 am)bennyboy Wrote: Who says that the photon is light in its own reference frame?From its definition. Are you going to explain why it stops being a quanta a light in its own rest frame?
In v1.0 of this thread, I took the position that a photon wasn't a thing at all, but rather an idea about a relationship between things, and that the universe was therefore best viewed in idealistic terms. In this thread, I am accepting the broken math and considering the consequences of that acceptance: the bringing together in spacetime of one framework which is infinite or undefined with our own rest frame. It's not that much different than asking what happens inside a black hole, or what existed "before" the Big Bang singularity, I guess.
