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Think of time as defined by how many times a photon bounces between two mirrors. If the two mirrors move at the speed of light with the photon, the photon will never reach the mirror to bounce. Therefore, the photon experiences no time.

There is no universal time T in space time. Time is relative to the observer.

I suggest reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space for the mathematics.




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