ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[Ya Sam]

>In a reference frame moving at the speed of light in a vacuum, the entire 
>history of the universe is instantaneous. One instant.There is no time.

What those photons have to go through! That is, from our perspective.

Found this thing:


Photons express themselves in space, but have no sense of time relative to 
themselves.
We use photons as wonderfully precise clocks, but relative to a photon's 
viewpoint, the
clock stops. Photons also have no sense of perspective. There is no scale 
for a photon.
When you observe an object from the viewpoint of "capturing" a single 
photon, you can
not tell how "far away" the object is or how big or small it is. You need 
some statistics
gathered from two or more viewpoints to get such notions. Photons live in 
the eternally
instantaneous "here and now."


Experiment: Go out on a clear night and look at a far away star with one eye 
covered.
You see the photons from the star here and now, even though you may imagine 
they
came across light-years of distance and perhaps millions of years. Yet each 
photon is
fresh and alive and just as it was when it "left" its source eons ago. It 
doesn't get shaggy
or crotchety. You can not judge its distance, although with some equipment 
you could
estimate distance from its red shift. In fact, if you relax and pretend you 
ARE the
photon, you realize that the photon just manifested "here and now", and that 
"here and
now" is completely non-local, beyond space and time. How else could it have 
"come"
from such a distant "source" and be so fresh and present in the moment? The 
real
source of the photon is you, the observer. You created the star, and then 
imagined that
you pushed it far away, and then looked at it from a distance, and -- what 
do you know --
there it is, far away. It even red-shifted for you.

http://www.dpedtech.com/OP13.pdf

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