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This Is What Happens When Legislators Don't Learn Science in School

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam7/04/2014 6:33:21 am PDT

re: #414 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

The words “photon’s pov” imply an observer, but no observer can travel with the speed of light, even theoretically, so the issue is basically not meaningful - there is no photon rest frame and there is no photon pov…

Strictly speaking, you’re correct. But as an observer approaches the speed of light, time for him or her slows down relative to an observer in a different frame of reference. The faster the speed, the slower the time. Physical objects cannot travel at the speed of light, so time doesn’t stop entirely. But for a photon traveling at the speed of light, time doesn’t pass at all — the next tick of the clock takes an eternity compared to an outside frame of reference.

Of course, if you plug the values into the time dilation formula, you end up dividing by zero, the result of which the math guys say is “undefined” and physicists say is “infinity.”