For Tiny Light Particles, 'Before' and 'After' Mean Nothing

space.com ^ | September 20, 2018 10:21am ET | Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science Staff Writer |

[BenLurkin]

"At the end of the photons' journeys, the researchers could measure the new polarization."

[adorno]

Time is immaterial for light particles.

[Ken522]

Causuality is not destroyed - depending on the polarity, A precedes B or B precedes A, depending on the polarity … now if Christine Ford decides to testify, all bets are off!

[lee martell]

Confucius say;
“Time WEIGHTS for no one!”

[ctdonath2]

Yup.
A photon perceives itself as existing along its entire path, no matter how long that takes, simultaneously. There is no passage of time from the start to the end of its trip - even if it took a billion years. All at once, zero distance, from its perspective.

[TBP]

There has been a variation of the double slit experiment in which it appears that the path of the electrons changed AFTER they had already gone through the slit.

[bunkerhill7]

I knew a girl who was gone yesterday but here tomorrow, missed today completely.

[BenLurkin]

If those aren’t lyrics from a song — they should be!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Or as the late, great Rick James said, “Cocaine is a helluva drug.”

[Leaning Right]

Don't get confused, Ben. It can easily be explained by a series of basic equations:

Which simplifies to:

[SunkenCiv]

bfl, thanks BenLurkin.

[Seruzawa]

The simplest explanation is that they don’t have a clue and just make up stuff as they go along. Then rely on the old “If you don’t have a PhD you can’t understand it. You must bow down to our elitist “superior” knowledge that we pull out of our @sses.”

[the_daug]

no mass?

[Getready]

Hmmmmmm....

[Nifster]

Ahhhh the duality of light

[Migraine]

Before A can precede B, and vice versa, doesn’t it have to travel 186,000 miles first?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[adorno]

no mass?

They don't go to church.

[I want the USA back]

Anyone who really thinks that “Schrödinger’s cat” can be both alive and dead is not reasoning properly, and must remain silent.

Where this is going: the destruction of the principle of cause and effect.

Sorry, but alive = not dead, and the effect follows the cause. This is true no matter what some deluded scientist says.