
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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Do Photons Experience Time?
A question about what's the time for a photon? Do fotons experience time, or are they frozen? I think there's some misunderstandings about it. Anders wants to take this to the extreme, and he says, well, say i'm going at 99 % of the speed of light relative to earth. When somebody looks at my spaceship, well, they see my time slowing down. So unfortunately, this is not a quest we can really answer in a satisfactory way. But shall we continue for eight minutes to spin around, or it will be immediate disappearance? All right. Thank you very much, anders for your enthusiasm about the universe and these fun questions. We'll
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