RE: Photons and determinism, part 2
February 26, 2015 at 4:52 am
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 4:53 am by bennyboy.)
(February 26, 2015 at 12:10 am)Surgenator Wrote:I don't think relativity is about how things SEEM. Someone who leaves Earth at a high speed and returns REALLY travels a difference relative distance than we perceive, and their clock really moves at a different rate.(February 25, 2015 at 11:25 pm)bennyboy Wrote: No. The universe condensed into a singularity and I instantly arrived at my destination.
The universe didn't condensed, it only seemed to for the observer. A subtle but important distinction.
Now, that's not to say the universe from OUR perspective has become a singularity. But I think a photon and the universe have a kind of inverse relationship (or maybe better to see it as perpendicular); from one framework, the other is an undefined or paradoxical quantity.
(February 26, 2015 at 2:02 am)IATIA Wrote:Are you?(February 25, 2015 at 11:25 pm)bennyboy Wrote: No. The universe condensed into a singularity and I instantly arrived at my destination.Then how am I able to observe your progress?