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    Undergrad A question on Special Relativity

    yes i have probably got confused, i guess what i mean in a rough and exagerated example is that, if you were to conduct an experiment in which you had a camera to take snap shots of a photons journey through space, and it was set to take continuous snapshots, the photon would appear in the snap...
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    Undergrad A question on Special Relativity

    Thank you very much, that's the kind of answer i was looking for, something i can learn a bit from.
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    Undergrad A question on Special Relativity

    Thanks, This brings another question to my attention. If a photon travels at the speed of light through space, then how can it travel through time? Surely, in the instant that the photon reached the speed of light, time would stand still relative to it. However, for a stationary observer of...
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    Undergrad A question on Special Relativity

    Hi, I don't study Physics at school, so please excuse me if i sound crude or miseducated. I was reading about Einsteins theory of Special Relativity, and was wondering if i understand it correctly. In the book it states that einstein proposed that the speed of motion of a body through...