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Photons and determinism, part 2
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RE: Photons and determinism, part 2
February 25, 2015 at 6:45 pm
Perhaps I'm just pig dick ignorant here, but I can't get past the fact that it takes a photon 8 minutes to get to the Earth from the surface of the sun. I understand that if left unimpeded, 8 minutes travel time would 'seem' infinitesimal to a photon, but don't understand the argument how this translates into zero distance.

I think it's perfectly acceptable to pontificate about a photon perceiving the journey to be instantaneous; the same as our inability to differentiate nanoseconds from instantaneous. To then state as fact that no distance was traveled by the photon and reason necessary truths from this seems unreasonable.
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Photons and determinism, part 2

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Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 23, 2015 at 6:44 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 23, 2015 at 7:17 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 23, 2015 at 11:19 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 24, 2015 at 1:47 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 24, 2015 at 5:59 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Alex K - February 24, 2015 at 6:19 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 24, 2015 at 9:31 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Alex K - February 24, 2015 at 10:53 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 24, 2015 at 1:33 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by vorlon13 - February 23, 2015 at 8:12 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 23, 2015 at 8:56 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by vorlon13 - February 24, 2015 at 12:21 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Alex K - February 24, 2015 at 1:46 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 24, 2015 at 5:54 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Alex K - February 24, 2015 at 5:59 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by ManMachine - February 24, 2015 at 7:41 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Jackie - February 24, 2015 at 7:54 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by AFTT47 - February 24, 2015 at 11:34 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Alex K - February 24, 2015 at 11:40 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by ManMachine - February 24, 2015 at 12:52 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 24, 2015 at 6:54 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 24, 2015 at 7:58 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 24, 2015 at 8:29 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - February 24, 2015 at 9:22 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 24, 2015 at 9:42 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 24, 2015 at 11:28 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 25, 2015 at 12:44 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 25, 2015 at 1:13 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 25, 2015 at 6:41 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Alex K - February 25, 2015 at 6:48 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 25, 2015 at 1:09 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 25, 2015 at 4:56 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 25, 2015 at 6:26 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - February 25, 2015 at 8:04 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 25, 2015 at 9:31 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by AFTT47 - February 24, 2015 at 11:59 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by vorlon13 - February 24, 2015 at 2:34 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - February 24, 2015 at 7:06 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Mudhammam - February 25, 2015 at 1:35 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Cato - February 25, 2015 at 6:45 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Mudhammam - February 25, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - February 25, 2015 at 7:57 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 25, 2015 at 8:03 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 25, 2015 at 7:30 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Mudhammam - February 25, 2015 at 10:21 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by LastPoet - February 26, 2015 at 4:07 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Mudhammam - February 26, 2015 at 6:18 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - February 25, 2015 at 10:27 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 25, 2015 at 11:25 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 12:10 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 26, 2015 at 4:52 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 12:24 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 26, 2015 at 1:28 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 4:26 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 6:48 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - February 26, 2015 at 6:45 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 26, 2015 at 7:24 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 7:42 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 26, 2015 at 8:07 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 8:28 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 26, 2015 at 9:25 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 10:16 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 26, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 26, 2015 at 11:18 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 27, 2015 at 3:35 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 27, 2015 at 1:10 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - February 27, 2015 at 8:11 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - February 27, 2015 at 11:49 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - March 1, 2015 at 8:41 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - March 1, 2015 at 11:00 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - March 1, 2015 at 2:33 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - March 1, 2015 at 8:17 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - March 1, 2015 at 8:49 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - March 1, 2015 at 9:00 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - March 1, 2015 at 9:08 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - March 1, 2015 at 9:31 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Pizza - March 1, 2015 at 9:35 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - March 1, 2015 at 10:02 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - March 1, 2015 at 10:01 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - March 1, 2015 at 10:37 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - March 1, 2015 at 11:45 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - March 2, 2015 at 1:26 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - March 2, 2015 at 1:24 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - March 2, 2015 at 1:38 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by bennyboy - March 2, 2015 at 8:57 pm
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Surgenator - March 3, 2015 at 12:34 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by IATIA - February 26, 2015 at 2:02 am
RE: Photons and determinism, part 2 - by Norman Humann - February 26, 2015 at 4:10 pm

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