Shard Cosmology

Why Light Experiences No Time

July 24, 2026·23 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Deconstructs popular "folk physics" regarding light and time, exploring how light travels through matter via coherent forward re-radiation and polaritons. The episode dives into the history of wave-particle duality, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, and Dirac's quantum electrodynamics, before examining cutting-edge theories at the bleeding edge of physics, including string theory, loop quantum gravity, and holographic entropic gravity. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit countrycrocked.substack.com/subscribe

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