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Two questions and two errors: The (hypothetical) point of view of the photon is not "frozen" because you need time to perceive something frozen. But the photon has proper time zero, everything is reduced to one instant, thus nothing can be frozen. "Dodge" a photon: Information is transmitted with light speed. As the photon is moving with light speed it is ...

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A photon cannot be said to have its own inertial reference frame, because inertial reference are defined to be a family of coordinate systems that satisfy the two fundamental postulates of SR, one of which is that light moves at c in all frames. You could construct a coordinate system where the photon was at rest, but since this coordinate system wouldn't be ...

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There is a relatively new theory (2012) called the firewall theory, that says that at the event horizon there is a huge "wall of fire" as such. This is because quantum entangled particles that cross the horizon (or one half of a pair of entangled particles) becomes tricky and starts breaking laws like the monogamy of entanglement. So a group of physicists ...

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As pointed out you can't travel at the speed of light but you can look at the limits we are tending towards as we approach it. So, if I were to travel in a spacecraft at the speed of light, would I freeze and stop moving? From the perspective of a stationary observer if your spacecraft was traveling at close to the speed of light, time on the ...

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you should look for the theory of "Covariant Quantum Mechanics" originally introduced by M. Modugno and J. Jadcyk, in particular the "special algebra of quantizable functions". There is not so much literature since the theory is mathematically quite hard to enter, but afterwards it is worth. I have worked in that field for several years. The basic idea is to ...

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The conceptual key here is that time dilation is not something that happens to the infalling matter. Gravitational time dilation, like special-relativistic time dilation, is not a physical process but a difference between observers. When we say that there is infinite time dilation at the event horizon we don't mean that something dramatic happens there. ...

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An "observer" in the theory of relativity means any individual who is capable, or, in the context of thought experiments, any material point or principal identifiable point to which the capability is attributed, to collect perceptions, to distinguish the perceptions collected, and to judge the coincidence (or otherwise: the sequence) of distinct collected ...

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In the following animations the observer coincides with the receiver: Stationary light source, stationary observer (receiver): http://www.einstein-online.info/images/spotlights/doppler/doppler_static.gif Stationary source, moving observer: http://www.einstein-online.info/images/spotlights/doppler/doppler_detector_blue.gif It is assumed that the ...

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What is the formal definition of an observer in special relativity? I have seen a few: The actual coordinate system. The collection of synchronised clocks that cover the coordinate system. A well reasoned person in the system. But what is the actual definition? In #3, what is missing is that the observer's state of motion, i.e., ...

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An observer is a timelike worldline with 4-velocity $u^{\mu}$ and an orthonormal basis $e_{\hat{\alpha}}$ with $e_{\hat{0}} = u$ such that $e_{\hat{\alpha}}$ is transported along the worldline under some transport law e.g. Lie transport, Fermi transport, or parallel transport. Physically the Lorentz frame represents a local set of three orthogonal meter ...

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By using orthogonal optical resonators, laboratory tests concerning verifying the isotropy of c have come a long way. As quoted from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.105011 "An analysis of data recorded over the course of one year sets a limit on an anisotropy of the speed of light of $\Delta c/c \sim 10^{-17}.$ This constitutes the ...

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