FIRST LIGHT (CHARLES BAXTER) AND THE PHOTON TRAJECTORY

Just outside Buffalo, Dorsey says, “I’m sick. I have Autobahnschmerz. It’s not the distance. It’s the freeways and tolls and the speed and the time, and the fact that there aren’t any decisions a human being can make. It’s like being …” She thinks for a moment. “It’s like being a photon. You can’t decide where you’re going.”

Hugh shrugs and keeps his eyes on the road.

The first time I read this text I also shurg my shoulders, because what can I do against such pendantry? Then I realized it´s a good examle: photon goes by rails which are difficult to get out of. A planet moving in space is also a good example. One goes forward concienless, that´s how we have finished last year.