"Einstein proclaimed that all objects in the universe are always traveling through spacetime at one fixed speed—that of light. ...this one fixed speed can be shared between the different ...space and time dimensions ...If an object is sitting still ...all of the object's motion is used to travel through one dimension ...time ...all objects that are at rest ...age—at exactly the same rate or speed. If an object does move through space... some of the previous motion through time must be diverted. ...its clock will tick more slowly if it moves through space. ...The speed of an object through space is thus merely a reflection of how much of its motion through time is diverted. ...the maximum speed through space occurs if all of an object's motion through time is diverted to motion through space. But having used up all of its motion through time, this is the fastest speed through space ...something traveling at light speed through space will have no speed left for motion through time. Thus light does not get old; a photon that emerged from the big bang is the same age today as it was then. There is no passage of time at light speed."
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Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (1999) Ch. 2 Space, Time, and the Eye of the Beholder.
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