[dipayankar]

A photon without motion will not exist.. it will disintegrate, unless it is preserved by external means.

Originally Posted by NotStein

I agree with your concept that time cannot exist without motion completely - it fits my gut sense. I can't accept the mathmatics yet, until you show me a photon that is not moving. Another way of looking at it, without anything at all moving, I'm convinced time would not exist, because there would be no way of differentiating 2 successive measurements (everything would be in the same spot/state).

What logically follows is another thought experiment. What if the 'fabric/surface' of our spacetime is actually moving at the speed of light (C)? Could that explain why a photon's rest mass is 0? Because it is at 'relative rest' to the fabric (it would also explain why 'C' is such a special velocity, when relativity says no particular reference frame is special)? Could it also explain why mass can't reach the speed of light, i.e. it must for some reason, always have some velocity difference relative to the fabric, or it's mass becomes non-existant/unmeasureable/zero/infinite, i.e. pure energy (don't forget the real ramifications of re-normalization here)?


Jeff.