teacher94 said:
TL;DR Summary: Hi, i am not a physicist but i have the intuition that time dilation is just slow in the movement of particle's and causality instead of slow in time itself and that this does not affect photons. I understand that there is no way to distinguish between a slow in time and a slow in movement and causality but would the math still work the same if we assume this interpretation of time dilation? Thank you
Hi, i am not a physicist but i have the intuition that time dilation is just slow in the movement of particle's and causality instead of slow in time itself and that this does not affect photons. I understand that there is no way to distinguish between a slow in time and a slow in movement and causality but would the math still work the same if we assume this interpretation of time dilation? Thank you
It's possible to regard a photon as the limiting case of a non-photon (i.e. a massive particle) that moves very very fast. Such a massive particle can't ever quite reach the limiting speed that a photon does, but it can come arbitrarily close.
It's unclear to me exactly what your proposal is, but this might be a useful case to consider. What would you see as the difference between a very fast moving particle, for instance at .9999 c, and a photon moving at 1.0 c? It would be helpful if you could describe some experiment or thought experiment that would illustrate what it is you're trying to describe.
On a somewhat related note, it'd be helpful if you could explain what you think time dilation is. I have to admit that it'd be helpful mostly in criticizing your idea, which you may not want to hear, but that's a separate issue. Discussion is supposed to involve the exchange of ideas, in the end, as opposed to validation. At least, that's the view I take.
I regard time dilation as the ration of proper time (which is the sort of time a clock, such as a wristwatch, measures) to coordinate time, for instance, but I'm not sure saying that will make sense to you. I have a sense (which may be wrong), that you think there is some sort of universal, agreed-upon notion of time, and that you regard time dilation as the ratio of the proper / wristwatch time to this universal underlying time. I would be very critical of this idea, but it'd be somewhat useless to say more if I was totally off the track of what you were trying to ask.