Thread: Life The Fermi Paradox - Why we haven't been contacted by aliens
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Old 05-29-2014, 12:33 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Fish View Post
That's not necessarily true, since we don't have proper physics to explain things happening at the speed of light. It's not possible to form a frame of reference for a photon. It has no detectable mass, and is traveling faster than c. We can't apply special relativity to a photon for those reasons. Our physics aren't complete enough yet. It might be better to say that at the speed of light, time in unable to yet be defined.
The duality of light has always bothered me.
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