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I suppose I'm treading on determinism grounds that have been explored, but I had my own idea about the timeline with respect to light. I have no idea whether this has been considered by others. Too lazy to try to track it down on the internet.
In relativity, one of the fun things about light is that it doesn't experience spacetime from its own perspective. Although we see a photon take time to get to its destination, from its perspective it takes no time at all to arrive. It experiences no distance. As far as the photon is concerned, it's at its origin and destination at the same time.
Now I'll go into crackpot theory stuff. Let's say that all this implies that the photon has to have a destination. It has to be going to some particle of matter somewhere. It can't just radiate off into empty space, because that would create a conflict between traveling infinitely and seeing no distance.
Consider that light from the Sun takes eight and two-thirds minutes to get here. Light that is leaving the Sun right now has already arrived as far as the light is concerned. The light knows where we're going to be more than eight minutes in the future so it can hit us. Light from a star 20 light years away is now targeting people on Earth where they'll be 20 years from now. And there are photons from a star 20,000 light years away that are leaving right now with a firm destination where the Earth will be 20,000 years in the future.
If all this holds up, the timeline is set, possibly from beginning to end. Is all this a reasonable idea? Naturally I have my doubts, being a skeptic and all.
In relativity, one of the fun things about light is that it doesn't experience spacetime from its own perspective. Although we see a photon take time to get to its destination, from its perspective it takes no time at all to arrive. It experiences no distance. As far as the photon is concerned, it's at its origin and destination at the same time.
Now I'll go into crackpot theory stuff. Let's say that all this implies that the photon has to have a destination. It has to be going to some particle of matter somewhere. It can't just radiate off into empty space, because that would create a conflict between traveling infinitely and seeing no distance.
Consider that light from the Sun takes eight and two-thirds minutes to get here. Light that is leaving the Sun right now has already arrived as far as the light is concerned. The light knows where we're going to be more than eight minutes in the future so it can hit us. Light from a star 20 light years away is now targeting people on Earth where they'll be 20 years from now. And there are photons from a star 20,000 light years away that are leaving right now with a firm destination where the Earth will be 20,000 years in the future.
If all this holds up, the timeline is set, possibly from beginning to end. Is all this a reasonable idea? Naturally I have my doubts, being a skeptic and all.
