My understanding is that light does not experience time. In attempting to understand what the universe would be like from the perspective of a photon, the answer I get is that the universe would be essentially 'frozen'. Answers I've seen describe the photon in a universe where it can move through space, but with events around it not moving at all in time.
So...from my frame of reference, it takes about 4 hours for light to go from Neptune to where I am on Earth. Conceivably I could move somewhere during that time to dodge the photons. But if from the photons perspective I don't have time to move out of the way, then there is a paradox of sorts.
Therefore I must be missing something here. Can someone explain how the motion of other things is possible from the perspective of a photon?
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