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Old 13-05-2016, 04:56 PM
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What is it like to be a photon?

Einstein developed the theory of relativity by asking himself what it was like to ride on a beam of light.

In trying to understand the spiritual, the non-physical, a good starting question to ask is: What is it like to be a photon?

A photon has no mass and no charge. Furthermore, according to relativity it exists in a state of no-time and no-space. So it would seem that a photon is a non-physical entity.

What do you think?
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Old 14-05-2016, 12:29 AM
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Einstein developed the theory of relativity by asking himself what it was like to ride on a beam of light.

In trying to understand the spiritual, the non-physical, a good starting question to ask is: What is it like to be a photon?

A photon has no mass and no charge. Furthermore, according to relativity it exists in a state of no-time and no-space. So it would seem that a photon is a non-physical entity.

What do you think?
You may just as well ask the question "what is it like to be in two places at once?"....I just can't help myself. lol

I got over riding on photons ages ago and now I've hitched a ride on a few fermions with the quantum bus going to E^2=p^2c^2+m^2c^4
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Old 14-05-2016, 10:35 AM
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The experience of a photon is similar to that of a ripple in the water.
What is the existence of a ripple?
Is it the energy that caused the ripple?
Is it the medium on which the energy acts?
Or is it the underlying physics that allows such a reaction to occur?
Does it have an individual existence of its own, or is it just an occurrence of the play of forces.
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Old 15-05-2016, 06:19 PM
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You may just as well ask the question "what is it like to be in two places at once?"....

Bilocation comes to mind...
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Old 23-06-2016, 11:43 AM
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HaHa nice one.
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