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Old 31-August-2007, 07:47 AM
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Speaking strictly from a layman's point of view here. My understanding is that the photon exists only in Zero Time from its own point of view. A photon that leaves the Sun, hits Jupiter and passes through my telescope takes about an hour to make the trip, as I perceive time. When I look at Jupiter, I'm looking at where it was 30 minutes ago because light takes time to reach me.

As for the property of the non-photon existing only in time I'm not sure it would even matter what it's properties might be. If there is no spatial component to it, it doesn't seem that it could affect any bit of real matter. If it could it would affect all matter throughout all time which seems like it would have to have a nearly infinite energy capacity, or that the effect is so small it would go completely undetected.

Again, this is purely from a layman's view, so it may be totally off base. See below for any corrections and better explanations.
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