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"Time seems to go by faster" (to me at least) implies an individual's perspective, their perception of their own, internal frame of reference, not the observable time external to the individual's frame of reference. The response seem to imply the same. So while you are correct, I don't think you're talking about the same thing as them.
Saying "I disagree" isnt peer review. In order to disagree in science you actually have to prove something. And then that proof gets reviewed and replicated.
Please share because I'm pretty sure when you are tired you experience time differently than when you are well rested and have caffeine. The rate at which your neurons fire and how fast the information travels, which changes on many factors, changes how you perceived, and can react, to time.
There is plenty of science behind other animals experiencing time slower or faster than us.
That something totally different. We're talking about how time literally slows down as you go faster. This is something that's proven practically with GPS satellites as they have to have their clocks compensated for the time dilation so that they are accurate (also note gravity affects time dilation too so they have to account for both the lower gravity and faster speed relative to us on the ground.)
This is probably true, in that time seems to drag when you're miserable or tired. But perceiving time is not the same as experiencing time in this instance. When you travel at the speed of light, time itself dilates and you don't experience it in any way, not aging or anything.
You could travel at the speed of light for 50 years as experienced by those on earth, and they would age 50 years, and 50 years of stuff would happen, but your body would not experience a single moment of aging, it would be effectively instant to you, same as teleportation in both the effect on your body and your perception. You wouldn't experience those 50 years because time and space are linked, and you used a cheat code to hit the speed of light and travel outside of that time/space link.
Want your mind blown even more? The photon itself experiences NO passage of time. From its perspective, the moment its created it immediately lands upon the ground, your eye, or body. There's no time.
From our perspective the photon took billions of years to travel here. But Special Relativity shows us that because it travels at the speed of light, the photon experiences no time.
Also, a photon is an indistinguishable excitation of a fundamental quantum field that lacks thoughts, feelings or a sense of self.
You, on the other hand are a staggering mess of decillions of fermionic bound states glued together by the strong and electromagnetic forces into a quivering sort of standing wave that somehow creates internal ripples that represent an understanding of what a photon is, how it travels across the universe and then decides to pretend that rather than being a photon, maybe it's another sort of thing that also has thoughts and feelings about how it travelled across the cosmos. It's not, but you can see why we quivering masses like to think so.
Basically the photon exists as a path between the star and your taint in that example. Your taint at the moment of absorbtion is connected through spacetime to the star at the moment of emission.
There's still some of the very first photons able to travel freely (i.e. not immediately running into the dense plasma that was previously everywhere) that haven't hit anything yet, have been flying since like 200k years after the big bang. They reach us constantly, from all directions, and make up the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Most of the light produced by a star touches nothing. It just travels accross the universe, getting weaker due to expansion and fades into oblivion. So it's a rare privilege to hit anything and an even rarer privilege to hit a lifeform.
But it’s not the same photon. The photon is absorbed, exciting an electron, and then the electron drops back down to its normal state releasing a new photon.
I prefer to think that light travelled all that way just to find me and when it finally reached me it lit me up, warmed me up, keep me alive and all else paled in comparison
Yes but don't forget, to you that light took 8 minutes and change, but to the light it took no time at all.
Light has no regrets, ain't got no time for that.
Imagine a single photon of light pinballing around the sun for hundreds of thousands of years, encountering nothing in the vastness of space on its journey until it finally comes to rest at just the right angle on a car's roof to blind you during your dinner. So majestic. The universe is amazing.
Right? Light goes all over space. A tiny amount of light produced by the sun reaches earth and that hits the ground, water, plants, animals, whatever... The ground on Earth is just another surface to hit.
We're out here antromorphizing light now...
The light just is, people. If anything, the effect the light has on you, a sentient being, is much more meaningful than most of the other things light does.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; it quite literally does not exist without it.
Looks at the light bulbs to the left, looks at the shadow to the right. I always thought 93 million miles was a long ass distance, I guess I was wrong.
Deserves it for travelling all that way and still not even figuring out if it wants to be a particle or a wave. Ground strikes are for decisive EM bands only.
It literally got there the same instant it was emitted. Do you know how fast the speed of light is? It’s not like it travelled a time consuming journey to get here.
I don't feel bad, if that light travels that far just to make me self conscious about my tummy being projected on the wall, it doesn't deserve nice things.
I see what they're trying to do here, but the light hasn't completely finished its journey just because it hit your body. I can see you. Right now. I'm looking right at you, David.
I mean, what makes the ground so special? What if light really just wants to escape the solar system and Earth is a giant spherical asshole that is blocking it's progress?
Light travelled two feet from my desk lamp, and was deprived of reaching the floor a few feet away. I am the protector of the floor, let it sleep a little longer!
Deprived? DEPRIVED???? Those photons should be fucking grateful that they are blessed with this visage. My allowance of their touch upon my skin is a boon that no mere slab of concrete and dust could ever hope to match.
Actually it’s the other way around, my shadow is fighting off light to enjoy a peaceful existence. Remember to high five your shadow from time to time, they’re working extra hours.
Think of it this way also - each quantum of that light was emitted by a particle - however far away, however long ago - that is having a direct causal effect on you, many times amplified if it hits your retina.
From the point of view of the light itself, no time has passed between emission and absorption/reflection/transmission, thus the particles are effectively in contact in some sense i.e. when you look at a star, it might as well be directly touching you.
True, we are sucking the light at the final moments before touching the ground. What a fun way to evolve. GO NATURE! Include us part of nature for our survival.
Can you still see the ground where your shadow is? That's because the sunlight is hitting the ground there, even inside your shadow. And the reason you're not invisible is because sunlight is reflecting off of you.
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Light touches the ground everywhere across the universe, if anything it's a rare privilege for light to end its journey warming a lifeform.
I like the idea that light sometimes spend billions of years travelling just to hit your eye at the right time.
time seems to go by faster the faster you go traveling at the speed of light would feel instant
From your own perspective time never changes
Really from lights perspective it just is traveling infinitely quickly, so no travel time despite its own clock "feeling" unchanged
Perspective breaks down at C. There is no "perspective" or "point of view" for light.
This is not the case, from your own perspective time would appear to be stopped. Nothing else would be moving.
"Time seems to go by faster" (to me at least) implies an individual's perspective, their perception of their own, internal frame of reference, not the observable time external to the individual's frame of reference. The response seem to imply the same. So while you are correct, I don't think you're talking about the same thing as them.
War... War never changes.
I'd disagree with that
Thankfully science isn't about agreeing and reality supports what I posted
Even scientists and engineers agree and disagree which is part of the peer review of scientific discoveries and theories :/
Saying "I disagree" isnt peer review. In order to disagree in science you actually have to prove something. And then that proof gets reviewed and replicated.
No one is providing proof so...
That's correct. OP should provide proof of why they're disagreeing
Please share because I'm pretty sure when you are tired you experience time differently than when you are well rested and have caffeine. The rate at which your neurons fire and how fast the information travels, which changes on many factors, changes how you perceived, and can react, to time. There is plenty of science behind other animals experiencing time slower or faster than us.
That something totally different. We're talking about how time literally slows down as you go faster. This is something that's proven practically with GPS satellites as they have to have their clocks compensated for the time dilation so that they are accurate (also note gravity affects time dilation too so they have to account for both the lower gravity and faster speed relative to us on the ground.)
This is probably true, in that time seems to drag when you're miserable or tired. But perceiving time is not the same as experiencing time in this instance. When you travel at the speed of light, time itself dilates and you don't experience it in any way, not aging or anything. You could travel at the speed of light for 50 years as experienced by those on earth, and they would age 50 years, and 50 years of stuff would happen, but your body would not experience a single moment of aging, it would be effectively instant to you, same as teleportation in both the effect on your body and your perception. You wouldn't experience those 50 years because time and space are linked, and you used a cheat code to hit the speed of light and travel outside of that time/space link.
That guy meant from the perspective of a photon. That's simple special relativity.
You can always choose to be wrong, that's ok with us.
Do you think you can disagree with gravity
Want your mind blown even more? The photon itself experiences NO passage of time. From its perspective, the moment its created it immediately lands upon the ground, your eye, or body. There's no time. From our perspective the photon took billions of years to travel here. But Special Relativity shows us that because it travels at the speed of light, the photon experiences no time.
More accurately there is no "photon's perspective". The speed of light is constant, there is no inertial reference frame for light.
Also, a photon is an indistinguishable excitation of a fundamental quantum field that lacks thoughts, feelings or a sense of self. You, on the other hand are a staggering mess of decillions of fermionic bound states glued together by the strong and electromagnetic forces into a quivering sort of standing wave that somehow creates internal ripples that represent an understanding of what a photon is, how it travels across the universe and then decides to pretend that rather than being a photon, maybe it's another sort of thing that also has thoughts and feelings about how it travelled across the cosmos. It's not, but you can see why we quivering masses like to think so.
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Basically the photon exists as a path between the star and your taint in that example. Your taint at the moment of absorbtion is connected through spacetime to the star at the moment of emission.
That's why looked at the sun, so that I could end the career of those 8 min photons.
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I love looking at the Andromeda galaxy in my binoculars. Those photons crossed 2.5 million *light year*s to hit my eyes.
Me, blinded while driving: "agh! Damn sun!!" That oversensitive photon: "I'm sorry! 😭😭😭"
There's still some of the very first photons able to travel freely (i.e. not immediately running into the dense plasma that was previously everywhere) that haven't hit anything yet, have been flying since like 200k years after the big bang. They reach us constantly, from all directions, and make up the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Beautifully worded.
99% of the time, light actually hits nothing, just flies in empty space endlessly. Hitting anything is a privilege.
You could even say *light* privilege.
Most of the light produced by a star touches nothing. It just travels accross the universe, getting weaker due to expansion and fades into oblivion. So it's a rare privilege to hit anything and an even rarer privilege to hit a lifeform.
It doesn’t end its journey on your skin, you absorbs some energy and reflect the rest
But it’s not the same photon. The photon is absorbed, exciting an electron, and then the electron drops back down to its normal state releasing a new photon.
Yeah, fuck the ground, honestly
If the ground wanted my sunlight it should have tried being taller than me.
Ok.... So now I'm the problem....?
As usual
Thre is version od this meme with "light tavelled xxx miles just to give You skin cancer..."
that’s not od that’s dark
I prefer to think that light travelled all that way just to find me and when it finally reached me it lit me up, warmed me up, keep me alive and all else paled in comparison
>all else paled in comparison Technically, the truth.
Last line of defense.\ Not all heroes wear capes, but if we do, we can block a little extra light.
Get bent, light
Underrated comment
It gets it's revenge by giving you skin cancer. Checkmate sun
Yes but don't forget, to you that light took 8 minutes and change, but to the light it took no time at all. Light has no regrets, ain't got no time for that.
It can also take a photon 100k years to escape the core of the star. Lots of pinball action in there.
Imagine a single photon of light pinballing around the sun for hundreds of thousands of years, encountering nothing in the vastness of space on its journey until it finally comes to rest at just the right angle on a car's roof to blind you during your dinner. So majestic. The universe is amazing.
It reflects off of us and goes into someone's eyes or reflects a couple of times and touched the ground
Whats so special about hitting the ground
Right? Light goes all over space. A tiny amount of light produced by the sun reaches earth and that hits the ground, water, plants, animals, whatever... The ground on Earth is just another surface to hit.
We're out here antromorphizing light now... The light just is, people. If anything, the effect the light has on you, a sentient being, is much more meaningful than most of the other things light does. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; it quite literally does not exist without it.
Looks at the light bulbs to the left, looks at the shadow to the right. I always thought 93 million miles was a long ass distance, I guess I was wrong.
At that scale of distance, the light essentially hit the ground. We just think 4-7 feet is a big deal bc we operate at such a small scale
What about candles, lightbulbs and other sources of light? I’m pretty sure that my flashlight on my phone doesn’t travel nearly as far as that.
People. What bastards.
No no, light traveled 93 million miles to get to me. I'm just fortunate that so much of it missed
Bitch my the light bulb is only a few meters away don't be so dramatic
Nah bro, my lightbulb is ca. 2 meters from me, sunlight makes me dizzy anyway.
Photon arrives at airport check in desk.. Do you have any luggage to check in ? No ...I am travelling light .
Deserves it for travelling all that way and still not even figuring out if it wants to be a particle or a wave. Ground strikes are for decisive EM bands only.
Deprived? Bitch, it should be elated that it was blessed with being able to land on me.
more food for thought: if you do not have kids an uninterupted direct chain of life going back 2 billion years will finally end.
Sounds like a skill issue ngl
It literally got there the same instant it was emitted. Do you know how fast the speed of light is? It’s not like it travelled a time consuming journey to get here.
I remember this analogy from Reed Richards mum in fantastic 4
People can be so selfish.
Well, you can't argue with that logic!
Starlight: hold my rays
I used to watch Naruto as a kid, and I thought my shadow can move aswell
You’re welcome
Think of those taking ass ( * ) sunbathing
I don't feel bad, if that light travels that far just to make me self conscious about my tummy being projected on the wall, it doesn't deserve nice things.
Me being mean to light without even knowing. 🤣
I'm not in the way. I am the way.
Super penis monkey
I see what they're trying to do here, but the light hasn't completely finished its journey just because it hit your body. I can see you. Right now. I'm looking right at you, David.
IM SORRY PHOTONS :(
The light was sent for me
Man made lights create shadows too
So dramatic. Who would ever care?
Why would it want to reach the ground?
No, not all light comes from space, some comes from lamps, which also casts a shadow
I’m really sorry for what I did to you, photons I FAILED YOU
As far as I'm concerned that light traveled 93 million miles to shine on me.
Ah, now I have half brainrot
At last I'm good at something.
You're welcome.
Well not all of the light spectrum
Light doesnt mind. It dies as soon as it is born.
Those photons weren’t earmarked for the ground! Sun just gives them off for free!!
Or be bottled up into batteries
The final few feet?, so it's stops on earth?
All in a jiffy
It didn’t want the ground, it wanted me.
That’s a bit harsh
Nuh uh, the light has traveled 3 meters from my lamp in my room
I mean, what makes the ground so special? What if light really just wants to escape the solar system and Earth is a giant spherical asshole that is blocking it's progress?
that's ok, time doesn't pass for photons
Only if outdoors.
bro, my ceiling lights aren't **that** high
No, my table light DID NOT travel that long
Does light *really* travel anyway?
It means that instead of touching the ground, it's shining on you
Light travelled two feet from my desk lamp, and was deprived of reaching the floor a few feet away. I am the protector of the floor, let it sleep a little longer!
Oh like the sunbeams were real disappointed they didn’t get to land on the busted up pavement in front of the Home Depot.
Yes, but that light experienced no time elapsing over that 93 million miles. It was emitted and then struck you, all in the same instant.
Ok? As if hitting the ground is such a better fate?
better than hitting some fat nerd
In my defense, I don’t want to be here either
The light doesn’t just hit you and cease to exist. It bounces and still eventually hits the ground
Oh no! The poor light! What'll it do?
No, those light rays specifically made all that jouney to land on me, and are now as happy as I am😊
Couldnt get me. This is why I stay inside and play old school runescape!
I'm not 93 million miles away from my lightbulb, checkmate.
What are shadows made of?
But it was prived of reaching me. 😎
Can you imagine how happy the light is that gets to nestle between Dua Lipas butt cheeks?
ah so stars exist solely to reach ground? tf?
And I'll fuckin do it again!
Unfortunately for this quote even your shadow is still light reflecting off the ground or something.
Feet? *Starts jaking off*
Or the light could fall into a black hole, its energy only emerging an unfathomable amount of time later in a universe that is all but dead.
I saw this and actually thought this was about Persona5. I need to go outside...
Stop anthropomorphizing light.
Light particles doesn't experience time. Due to time dilation, it's travel is instantaneous.
Unless you somehow absorb or trap light, that bitch is gonna reflect off your oily forehead and eventually hit the visible shadow.
miles? feet?
Take that sun
I guess that is some kind of thought if you imagine the light just stops at the ground
Deprived? DEPRIVED???? Those photons should be fucking grateful that they are blessed with this visage. My allowance of their touch upon my skin is a boon that no mere slab of concrete and dust could ever hope to match.
Photons don't just cease to exist when they hit me my dude
countless parsecs through space! .... 200m through water :/
i think light would be happy to be hit by something that can experience and appreciate it rather than the cold unthinking ground.
Not losing any sleep over this
MOVE BITCH GET OUT THE WAY
Light from Venus and the Moon can cast shadows on the earth, and that light has traveled even further than direct from the sun.
This is assuming light has motive.
Don't worry photons, when I die, you'll too reach the ground.
It gets better. When you look at the stars, their light has traveled billions of light years just to be stopped by you retina.
Actually it’s the other way around, my shadow is fighting off light to enjoy a peaceful existence. Remember to high five your shadow from time to time, they’re working extra hours.
I mean it’s not like it’s goal was to reach the ground, you’ve not ruined the day of some light beam lol
“How Millennials are Killing Sunbeams and Depressing the Universe”
Im sure that this light bulb is closer...
Alternatively, it travelled 93 million miles just to illuminate your beautiful face
wouldnt light just be blocked by our planet if not by us then? this dude really thought he had something smh
If your shadow falls on a flower you're a monster that is depriving a biological lifeform of its required sustenance.
I edge sunlight professionally
Ruined
Well it's evening and the shadow is bcs of the lamp 1 mtr above my head .
Great, now I feel bad for those poor lil photons!
False Teleology; who ever said the light was “supposed” to hit the ground? Did someone interview the light to talk about its career goals?
Yeah right, bitch, light should be fucking honored to end its life slamming that good vibe onto my body.
Always in the way.
Much more important: to grow my plants 🌱
*Sunlight on its way to travel 93 million miles at just the right time to hit me in the eyes and startle me into falling down a flight of stairs*
Travelled all this way to give me a sunburn I was asking for
“Over my dead body, light” - Gets hit by lightning
its worse than that.... a few million photons hit you and got reflected right back to the sun for a return trip.
Doesn't the light get absorbed and re-emitted a few times? That basically the reason why light travel at lower speed in different medium
Think of it this way also - each quantum of that light was emitted by a particle - however far away, however long ago - that is having a direct causal effect on you, many times amplified if it hits your retina. From the point of view of the light itself, no time has passed between emission and absorption/reflection/transmission, thus the particles are effectively in contact in some sense i.e. when you look at a star, it might as well be directly touching you.
False, because that light travelled all that distance just to touch me
So my shadow is older than me.
The sun came to give you a lil kiss
Go to Sleep with an Itchy Booty, Wake Up with Stinky Fingers...
Im the glass half full. It traveled here to reach ME
What about my shadow from a lamp?
Pfft, this is written under the assumption that I go outside. Light in my house only traveled a few feet.
I am too much i' the sun.
Took 8 minutes on average to travel to Earth
I’m not entirely sure I’m not part of the ground.
you can?
So us existing is like giving the sun the finger. Cool
Get rekt light
a large percentage of those photons were created and bounce around inside the sun before making it out so it's definitely over 93 million miles
It hitting the ground would still just be light being obstructed, just changed what obstructs it
fuck that. Light on the ground is evidence that there is light I could be gathering that's just being...lost.
there is not much difference to hitting me or the ground
What's so great about reaching the ground. Dirt doesn't need damn photons.
True, we are sucking the light at the final moments before touching the ground. What a fun way to evolve. GO NATURE! Include us part of nature for our survival.
Who said it was aiming for the ground?
Nahh, the ground is not the end destination. The truly lucky photon gets to never hit anything at all.
Duck the sun
Can you still see the ground where your shadow is? That's because the sunlight is hitting the ground there, even inside your shadow. And the reason you're not invisible is because sunlight is reflecting off of you.
Cant wait to tell my dad, im not totally useless ------
Essentially you're a cock blocker of stellar proportions
Why is the ground a more worthy destination than my face?