• Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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.