Re: Riding on a photo

From: pirillo (ultraman2002_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 13:18:32 +0000 (UTC)

Unless I don't get your question correctly, at least
from the point of view of point particle arguments
using SR, an observer riding a photon "probably" would
not see anything. No, Ughh, wait! he would cross the path
of other photons so he'd see something. Ughh ... I have to
think more on this. As far as your question on whether
time is stopped for him, I guess it is in the sense that
the proper length of a photon worldline is either 0 or
undefined. Appart from this I don't know.

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