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Listener Questions: the expanding observable Universe, what it's like to be a photon and the age of the Universe

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What Is Time for a Photon?

Light always moves at the speed of light, no matter who is measuring it. A photon cannot carry a clock riht. It cannot hold anything. You can't do these special relativity calculations to transform yourself from our frame to the photons frame and calculate how much time has passed. We'd like to say something awesome and cool, like photons don't experience any time when they're in and Andromeda. But really, that's not something that we can write science fiction novels about - but we can actually know what it's like to be a photon. And even if you could build an intelligence or consciousness out of photons, still have no frame of reference and couldn't measure anything in the universe

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