Photons and Time

It is well know that physical processes slow down at high speeds. Energy transfers take more time. Clocks grind to a halt.

The explanation for this can be found in how energy is transferred between objects of inertial matter.

Energy transfers

The faster something moves, the harder it is to transfer energy to it. Because energy transfers to and from objects involves the aether.

Particles in the aether communicate energy from one object to another. However, this can only happen when objects travel slower than the particles in the aether. So, no energy can be passed onto objects that reach this speed, and that speed is the speed of light.

This is analogous to us trying to push energy onto a moving cart.

We can only do this as long as the cart moves slower than we do. Once the cart reaches a speed close to our own speed, it becomes time consuming and difficult to transfer energy onto it. Should the cart reach our own speed, energy transfers become impossible.

However, it’s incorrect to say that time stops at the speed of light. Because no time implies no change. But photons change at the speed of light.

Time doesn’t stop at the speed of light

Photons are characterized by their ability to change. They carry energy from one place to another. They can also change their polarity and direction.

This poses a paradox. Time grinds to a halt for objects that approach the speed of light, yet this doesn’t stop photons from changing in all sorts of ways even though they travel at the speed of light.

Our understanding of time relates to inertia

The key to unraveling this paradox is to keep in mind that time is an abstraction.

Time is relative motion, and it can only be measured relative to inertial matter. There’s no way to construct a clock of any kind without the use of inertial matter.

That includes our own bodies. Our so called biological clocks.

So, when we say that time grinds to a halt when an object approaches the speed of light, we’re referring to energy transfers to and from the inertial matter that makes our clocks tick. We’re talking about inertia.

But photons are not inertial. In contrast to inertial matter, which require the help of the aether to change their energy, photons require no help. Each photon is a self contained package of particle and pilot wave. Photons carry their own energy transferring mechanism with them.

Photons, wrapped in their pilot waves, change through direct contact. This is unrelated to the fact that they move at the speed of light.

However, with inertia, all changes are relative to the speed of particles in the aether. The closer we get to the speed of light, the slower things change.

This explains why time grinds to a halt for inertial matter at high speeds, but not for photons even thought they travel at the speed of light.