There is no "point of view of a photon." Photons do not have frames of reference.
So you are completely incorrect insofar as what you are saying is physically nonsense.
So you are completely incorrect insofar as what you are saying is physically nonsense.
If you and others in the thread feel that these popular authorities are spreading misinformation or using inappropriate analogies, doesn't it behoove you to raise an objection with them directly? Or perhaps with the appropriate faculty committees at their institutions?
If they want to make money by getting "the unwashed laity" to buy their books, why should I stop them? I simply don't buy them myself. If other people want to get told comforting nonsense, that's their problem. Caveat lector.
> Or perhaps with the appropriate faculty committees at their institutions?
Which would be pointless and absurd, since, as I have already said, the claims in question are not being made in textbooks and peer-reviewed papers.
I suspect you are trolling.
You can win an internet argument anywhere, but if that's all you want to achieve here, then maybe stop trying to debate physics.