Never began or end IN TIME, true. But, special consideration must be given to their appearance and disappearance which is non-temporally caused. I see nothing wrong in using the word “cause”, especially in light of the lack of alternative words to describe this process.
By analogy, you can see how a timeless photon can become part of matter which is subject to time. Likewise, an indivisible unit of spacetime can be spaceless and timeless, but become part of the larger world of spacetime. Weird stuff.
“A photon cannot see or experience anything, as it turns out. It’s true that time doesn’t pass for a photon: in relativity, it represents what we call a null geodesic. It travels from its point-of-origin to its point-of-termination: from where an interaction creates (or emits) it to where another interaction destroys (or absorbs) it. This is exactly what happens whether it’s emission/absorption, emission/reflection, a scattering interaction, or any type of interplay with another particle.“
It means ‘cosmological constant’. How the fuck can you square something that by definition can’t be squared ?!?
My grandfather used to travel as a job to places like area 54 and Area 51 all over the world … one thing he told me… “don’t believe any of your physics books”
Light is considered by physics the cosmological constant. It’s not infinite. It’s 186,000 miles per second. But because it’s considered the cosmological constant (by definition!) how can anything possibly move faster than it?!?!
No. You really don’t get it. “C” literally stands for “cosmological constant”. If it can be added to, then it is no longer the cosmological constant! Duh! Very basic logic.
John, you yourself stated that the photon has the most unique properties about 3 posts ago (the only timeless particle)… regardless of what you think about my argument against your ‘timeless’ claim, this special status that you’re giving the photon is that it travels at the cosmological constant (hence the letter “c”)… if “c” ever increases… it’s no longer “c”!!
Now if the equations used something like “p” for photon, we wouldn’t be having this discussion!