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mjonat t1_j6wvh96 wrote

Physics: If time stops at the speed of light then how do light photons move at all? If time stopped for me would I not be essentially stuck in the same place unable to move until time started for me again?

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Varsect t1_j6wxkv7 wrote

That's only their perspective. To us they move but to their perspective, distance doesn't exist at all as the time they were created and the time they were emitted are the same time. It's just a consequence of Relativity.

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Weed_O_Whirler t1_j6y0spd wrote

It's not quite right to say that "time stops at the speed of light." It's better to say "time becomes undefined at the speed of light." But what's interesting is, so does length due to length contraction. So using layman's terms, you could say time stops, but also, it doesn't have to go anywhere, because lengths are all zero.

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