Light is the most mysterious substance in the universe. It has no mass. It travels at the maximum speed permitted by the geometry of spacetime - 299,792,458 meters per second. It exhibits...
Light is the most mysterious substance in the universe. It has no mass. It travels at the maximum speed permitted by the geometry of spacetime - 299,792,458 meters per second.
It exhibits wave-particle duality, behaving as a wave when it propagates and as a particle when it is measured.
It does not experience time: from the photon's perspective, its emission and its absorption are the same event, regardless of the distance traveled.
A photon emitted by a star twelve billion light-years away has experienced zero elapsed time. It left the star and arrived at your retina simultaneously.