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This is all true.... However it should be said that time is not super slow for the particle, from the particles point of view (frame of reference) time passes a
by ptrincr 9y ago
This is all true.... However it should be said that time is not super slow for the particle, from the particles point of view (frame of reference) time passes as per normal for itself.
This is what allows the photon to appear to continue to travel at the speed of light from the particles frame of reference.
If the particle was carrying a clock, and we could watch it tick as it flew away from us, it would appear to be ticking super slowly, the second hand would take forever to move.
Conversely if we had a giant clock and the particle could watch it as it flew away from us, it would appear to be ticking super fast, it would look as though we were travelling far into the future.
The same is also true if an object is close to a very large gravity well. If someone could stand next to the event horizon of a black hole and hold a giant clock, from our point of view, their clock would appear to tick very slowly. From their point of view, it would tick normally, but our clock would rapidly tick far into the future. The universe around them would quickly travel into the future.
Time and space are elastic to allow the speed of light to remain constant.