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What would the EM field of a photon look like if you moved along with the photon? Would the magnetic part disappear just like it disappears when you move along with a moving electron?


Basically, from the photon's point of view, all travel is the universe distorting until origin and destination are literally the same point. Photon's don't experience movement, the universe does an instant jig around them while they sit still.


You can't "move along with a photon" because, in terms of General Relativity, any particle moving at c doesn't have a frame of reference.




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