Neil deGrasse Tyson explains that **photons—particles of light—don’t experience time** the way we do

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains that **photons—particles of light—don’t experience time** the way we do. Because they travel at the speed of light, time essentially stands still from their perspective. If a photon had a clock, it would never tick. That means, in its own frame of reference, a photon is emitted and absorbed in the same instant—even if it travels across the galaxy.

This idea comes from Einstein’s theory of relativity: as an object approaches the speed of light, time slows down for it. Since photons always move at light speed, they exist in a kind of timeless state. Tyson uses this concept to highlight how strange and beautiful the universe is—where something can travel for thousands of years and yet, for that particle, no time has passed at all.

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