Leinad45

yes but time passes for only the observer not the photon

am not, the definition of time permits me to say so. Time is the measure of event (past, present and future) and very things that carries out the events contains mass. even a photon which considered as a massless particle has mass that is so small that is considered irrelevant

yes it is quantified by general relativity, but what if we look at it from this angle, that time cannot exist without mass and mass is like a container for it. like the huge your mass is the longer you last(time) not as in a physical container but the link between time and mass is so strong and we could study more about it. because i believe if we can understand time much more, the transfer of this knowledge to the quantum world could help in the discovery of much bigger things.

what if we are looking at this all wrong, what if time is not a fragment broken into pieces. Time is not absolute and we all know that, but the real question is how it changes and why. imagine two identical balls with different masses but of the same shape and size. one is having a mass of 5kg and the other with 20kg, they are rolled on the ground to reach a distance of 5 meters using the same force, note that they all may reach the distance but not at the same time which changes their velocities because time is a function of velocity. Now imagine the two balls this time having the same mass rolled with the same force the reach the distance at the same time. If we quite remember Einstein, he said something about mass of a substances increasing with velocity.if he is right( which i believe he is) or wrong, from this scenario or example, Mass has an effect on velocity. To actually get to the point Mass has an effect on time itself. MASS OF SUBSTANCE DETERMINES THE SUBSTANCE'S TIME AND SPACE,THE MORE YOU CHANGE THE MASS, THE MORE YOU ARE CHANGING ITS TIME AND SPACE. AND WE EXPERIENCE TIME NOT BECAUSE WE ARE IN IT BUT BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE AROUND US IS MADE UP OF MATTER(MASS) AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MASSES IS WHAT CAUSES TIME TO BE EXPERIENCED. have more on this and an equation that links time to mass direct but no one takes me seriously they think am mad to say this. what do you think as a reader.