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Old 04-April-2004, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnOwens
I'm hardly an expert on this matter, basically just an overinformed layman, but I think it might be somehow relevant to some of the points above that from the photon's (extremely skewed!) reference frame, no time would pass between test A and test B (I'm not referring to papageno's A & B photons here). Perhaps this might help understand how the results of the second test can affect the first test?
As far as I know, the frame of reference of a photon cannot be used (it is definitely not an inertial frame of reference).
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