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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Why Does Light NOT Experience Time When It Slows Down ?
« on: 03/02/2025 00:03:03 »
First of all, a photon is a quantum concept and technically doesn't exist. Before being measured it isn't anywhere, and afterwards it is absorbed and gone. The measurement can say where it was, but never where it is.
So we talk about something more classical like a pulse of light. The pulse shown in the photo is probably done via something like a stroboscopic effect where fast moving things like a car engine at full tilt can be made to appear to slow down (super slow-mo) using a strobe light. They don't use a strobe since you can't illuminate light by shining a light at it. It's more like a stop action motion picture.
The light you see in the photo represents light that did not make it to its destination, but rather got deflected to whatever is taking the pictures.
Yes, you can reference such a frame, and our light pulse (Pholomena Tonoski) can 'experience' and such.
So we talk about something more classical like a pulse of light. The pulse shown in the photo is probably done via something like a stroboscopic effect where fast moving things like a car engine at full tilt can be made to appear to slow down (super slow-mo) using a strobe light. They don't use a strobe since you can't illuminate light by shining a light at it. It's more like a stop action motion picture.
The light you see in the photo represents light that did not make it to its destination, but rather got deflected to whatever is taking the pictures.
So, I found out that light does NOT experience time because of it's speedMore precisely, the speed of c relative to any object does not represent a valid inertial frame where things like distance, time, or experience are meaningful concepts. One can freely change inertial frames and back using the Lorentz transformation, but no transformation exists to such a frame. So they put the light in a medium and then we have a valid frame relative to which the light makes no progress against the fast moving medium. That seems to be what these guys are doing.
Yes, you can reference such a frame, and our light pulse (Pholomena Tonoski) can 'experience' and such.
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So, I then presumed that if it slows down then it should experience time...but apparently not !!! what's that all about ?Time can be experienced in such a frame, so the only thing stopping it is the same thing that stops a rock from experiencing it: Lack of googley eyes. Point is, one can say put a human in the frame next to it and have a pet Tonoski waiting stationary next to him. Best not to watch him because any light going to the side that you can see is light permanently gone from it. It will fade quickly if defecting its very essence at that rate.
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Why Does Light NOT Experience Time When It Slows Down ?Who says it doesn't? I mean, it's a light pulse in a valid frame. OK, a photon can't do it because it gets absorbed before it can be slowed by some interaction with the medium.
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'Light' does NOT rhyme with 'Cabbage'No, but it front-end rhymes with lituce.
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