Re: Riding on a photon

From: mike.james (mike.james_at_infomaxgroup.co.uk)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:02:10 +0000 (UTC)

"Scott" <zawy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20041219153442.13137.qmail@web52708.mail.yahoo.com...
> From the derivations I've seen for the special theory of relativity,
> there doesn't seem to be much of a problem for "taking it to the
> limit" for length contraction, time dilation, and increasing mass.
> In that case, the world (from the point of view of anything traveling
> the speed of light) is a timeless, 2-dimensional plane of infinite
> mass
> (energy).

Yes the derivation is easy but are you happy with the conclusion?
The photon lives in a timeless 2D universe....

How does this fit with the "a photon isn't localisable" and other related
comments?

This also raises the question of what the em field looks like in this
timeless 2D world
and the nature of photon interactions "seen" from the photon's point of
view.
mikej