i think you'd have to define both time and experience to say that statement with certitude
einstein defined time as only relative to local frames of reference, they can only be synchronised relatively between two clocks, and a clock is really just ordinal events, be it microseconds or hours. therefore the photonic excitation of the energy field is an event whose location can be referenced in spacetime relative to measuring events in another location in spacetime (for example, the start of a second on a clock). they all exist in space time, the clock, the photon, the observer. none of them experience time. the observer just deterimines the various events ordinal spacetime position, the observer themselves are merely an ordinal sequence of events. "experience" is just a label for that cascading causal sequence of events emergent from the complexity of evolved brains. one event causes a single synapse to fire reinforcing a calcium potassium ion channel as a causal event in ordinal sequence and we call this "experience". there is no real time, there is no real experience. our brains "experience" the arrow of time as forwards because that's what "experience" is, it's a tautology, what emerges when you run that tape forward on the brain. But you could also say we "experience" time backwards, it's just that when you play the tape backwards "experience" could describe a process where reinforcement triggers a reverse firing of the synapse back to the potential state. Both could describe reality, as could not playing the tape at all. Reality is a tapestry, relative events in space time where past, present and future all exist at once. "experience" and "time" are just labels our brains have made, rather than reality.
the photon doesnt experience time, nor does anything.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 13 Oct 2026, 12:24,
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^ Nobody is reading that drivel.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Tue 13 Oct 2026, 17:59,
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nobody has the time
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 13 Oct 2026, 22:20,
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