• Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social
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    Photons exist, so there is the perspective of a photon. Most may not be absorbed but that’s irrelevant because some are. And when they are, their perspective - like them - ends. Like yours does when you die.

    The photon does not experience time, but we do, so from our perspective they can be emitted and absorbed even though from their perspective they are timeless. Again, like us. Before you were born, you didn’t experience being not alive. From your own perspective, you’ve always existed, even though from the perspective of someone older than you, there was a time when you didn’t.

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      I was using the wrong term. Photons don’t have a frame of reference.

      But even from the colloquial definition, photons don’t have perspective. They don’t live and die because they never experience time. If you had their point of view, your beginning and end would happen simultaneously, meaning you wouldn’t experience anything. They are immutable particles whose only interactions are emission and absorption.

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        I just want to say how much I appreciate those discussion. They remind me of how little I know even though I’m considered an “expert” in my field of work.