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I have heard people argue that light doesn't experience time or space. That it is everywhere at once. I suppose that they base this on the relativistic idea that time and space are warped by speed, and that the closer an object gets to C, the more time slows down and space contracts relative to an observer in an inertial frame. Thus because light travels at C it would experience no time, and no space relative to all observers.
But it seems to me that this would only hold true for objects with mass, but not for light. Since light always moves at C relative to everything else does it experience the relativistic effects of time dilation and length contraction? Thus it is indeed everywhere at once? Or is light immune to relativistic effects because it has no mass?
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But it seems to me that this would only hold true for objects with mass, but not for light. Since light always moves at C relative to everything else does it experience the relativistic effects of time dilation and length contraction? Thus it is indeed everywhere at once? Or is light immune to relativistic effects because it has no mass?
Thanks