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If a photon hit a mirror at an exact right angle, it would have to be stationary for a moment before being reflected back, amirite?

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The speed of light in a vacuum is constant at a little under 300000km/s. In order for it to move in the exact opposite direction, (i.e. with velocity of 300000km/s to -300000km/s), there would be a very short moment (probably 1 Planck second) when it would have to be stationary. It would also then have infinite acceleration because it changed from 0 to 300000km/s in 0 seconds.

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@B10ckH34d The speed of light in a vacuum is constant at a little under 300000km/s. In order for it to move in the exact...

But if it came in at a right angle it wouldn't go in the opposite direction. Also, although short, 1 Planck second is still a unit of time and you can divide. It wouldn't be infinite.

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It would. A light ray will reflect back on itself when it hits a mirror perpendicularly. I'm not sure about the Planck second thing. I always thought it was like the frame rate of reality or something like that. You can't exist between frames in a movie, so time is like one frame per planck second. I'll look it up once I wake up.

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@B10ckH34d It would. A light ray will reflect back on itself when it hits a mirror perpendicularly. I'm not sure about the...

A Planck second is the shortest measurable unit of time. It's theoretically the length a photon takes to travel the length of the quantum strings in String Theory.

And for the 90 degrees I pictured it as its reflection equalling 90. Not 90 from the mirror.

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So yeah. The shortest measurable unit of time would be the frame rate of the universe, would it not?

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