Suppose i am travelling on a photon , sitting on it , now as my speed is equal to C , the time gets dilated for me and becomes INFINITE , what does this actually mean ?
Does it means that TIME does not exist for me , no hours, no minutes & no seconds with respect to a stationary observer , but if i have an observer besides me sitting on a photon with a watch which is moving with speed c then the intervals of time will exist for me
2007-09-03 04:00:19 · 6 answers · asked by Devil 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If you are sitting on a photon you are moving at the speed of light .therefore according to Galileo's Principle of Relativity ,the relative velocity between you and the photon is zero meters per seconds. Time gets dilated in the sense that light does not get reflected from your clock because light never reaches your eyes to read it, since there is zero velocity in relative motion between the clock and light. Your dilation of time is infinite because you be sitting on the photon for ever before you can tell time.However from an observer far away your motion relative to the same frame of referrence that the light is moving, would see the photons moving at the speed of light with you sitting on it.
This is relativity.If you can understand this you have Understood Einstein.
2007-09-03 07:15:59 · answer #1 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you travel to c, then time is not infinite, time is 0.
As time is stopped TIME does not exist for you, no hours, no minutes & no seconds with respect to a stationary observer.
if you have an observer besides you sitting on a photon, you will never see it.
2007-09-03 11:07:37 · answer #2 · answered by Scanie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot sit on a photon. The speed of light is invariant, meaning that it is constant for all observers. There is no observer who can ever observe the photon to be stationary.
2007-09-03 11:21:27 · answer #3 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually time does not exist for photons, but photons aren't smart enough to ask meaningless questions; this solve the paradox.
2007-09-03 11:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by paulatz2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it means that time stops for you. There is no more time. Photons don't register time - it's stopped for them. Your watch has stopped. You don't appear to be moving - everything takes infinitely long to happen.
2007-09-03 11:26:47 · answer #5 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For you, time would proceed normally. For someone observing you, time would stop.
2007-09-03 11:41:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋