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The Question of “Timeless Photons”

Author:

Tickner, Clive

Category:

Essays

Sub-Category:

Quantum Theory / Particle Physics

Language:

English

Date Published:

November 14, 2025

File:

/Essays-Quantum Theory / Particle Physics/Download/10367

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Keywords:

Professor Brian Cox. Andromeda. Relativity. Quanta. mathematical formalism. material reality. rest-frame. finite coordinates. emission and absorption. causal order. electromagnetic processes. Frequency. oscillatory behaviour. Wavelength

Abstract:

Professor Brian Cox, for example, has explained to audiences that light experiences neither time nor space. For a photon, he suggests, the universe is compressed into an infinitely thin pancake: it leaves and arrives in the same instant. Such imagery is vivid, but it cannot be reconciled with observation. If light truly traversed space instantaneously, then the light we see from Andromeda would present that galaxy “as it is now,” not as it was 2.5 million years ago. The finite travel time of light is an established and essential fact of astronomy. To claim otherwise is to negate the basis of cosmological observation itself.

Comments

Steve Olah(Laguna Woods, United States):

Do not panic. Special Relativity has already died with the recognition of Ether.
General Relativity will soon follow if we realize that the Universe is a kinetic device. There are no "air" connections.
Photon is still a mystery to most everybody. I described it 15 or 20 years ago as a Soliton. Please look it up in Wikipedia. A photon is an energy pulse carried by ether. The diameter of the ball is half wavelength. It is independent of the next photon in a line of photons. Polarization is flattening the ball, from which it can recover. A flat surface can reflect it because the diameter of a photon covers 5 to 8 thousand atoms. There are no standing photons.
Most useful: a photon can propagate over a smaller dust particle and continue its path. An infrared photon can mow through larger dirt than a blue photon.

Posted: November 18, 2025 @ 12:47:14 am

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