Re: At the speed of light- a photon's view

[jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu (James Mclean)]

Ken Fox wrote:
> Every year I am asked to answer what things look like when traveling at the
> speed of light. I know that is prohibited. But today the question took the
> form of " how would one photon describe another photon?"  I know that
> Einstein tried to imagine what an em wave would look like if traveling with
> it, but I don't know/understand what he decided he saw.

Prehaps a good way to approach this problem would be to consider how the
two photons could interact.  For instance, I guess there is no way for a
photon to "see" backwards.

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