Time Stops for Photons! 🤯 Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]So, is it true that the faster you go, the slower time ticks for you?

[00:00:02]>> At the speed of light, time stops.

[00:00:04]>> Are you saying photons don't experience time at all?

[00:00:07]Holy crap. So, the instant the photon was created in photosphere of the sun, the outer surface, >> Okay. and then it went on its 8-minute and 20-second journey to Earth. If you're the photon, you are born and you land on someone's buttocks in the same moment.

[00:00:23]>> moment.

[00:00:23]>> Oh, snap!

[00:00:24]>> They have no concept of that time passing.

[00:00:27]>> You were born and absorbed in the same instant.