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Originally Posted by Ben
I am confused! Suppose I sit atop a photon as it leaves Sol, and time how long it takes me to get to Earth, what will my clock read on arrival? Zero? Infinity? I don't think so. I suspect I will have timed it at roughly 8 minutes.
Am I wrong?
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There's a thread here where we tackle this issue extensively:
http://hypography.com/forums/astrono...e-no-time.html
Basically, since photons travel at c, their time dilation is infinite. Because of infinite time dilation, they do not experience time.
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