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James William Hall
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Can a photon ever be motionless relative to the earth's surface? Did it accelerate from 0 mps to 186,000 mps?
No* and no*.TL;DR Summary: Photon Motion
Can a photon ever be motionless relative to the earth's surface? Did it accelerate from 0 mps to 186,000 mps?
This is really a Quantum Mechanics question. In SR the photon is simply a massless particle that may take part in particle collisions. But, the theory does not go any deeper that that and there is no theory on how the photon appears and no implication that it accelerates from rest.TL;DR Summary: Photon Motion
Can a photon ever be motionless relative to the earth's surface? Did it accelerate from 0 mps to 186,000 mps?