If a photon experiences no time, does that mean its entire path was already pre-determined—including hitting me 8 billion years later?

was emitted 8 billion years ago from a distant galaxy, and today, it finally reaches me and hits my eye.

From my perspective, that photon traveled at the speed of light (c) across vast cosmic distances over billions of years. But from the photon’s own perspective, something strange happens—it experiences no time or space at all.

Since:

when v=c

Time stops → Δt′=0

Space collapses → L′=0

For the photon, its creation and absorption are a single event—it never "traveled" anywhere, it simply existed at both points at once.

Logical observation: 🔹 Our solar system didn’t even exist when the photon was emitted (4.6 billion years ago vs. 8 billion years ago). 🔹 Yet somehow, this photon was always on course to hit me—it never had a choice to do otherwise. 🔹 Which means... I also never had a choice not to be hit by it.

Even in Multi-World Interpretation, a photon as such would have no choice, since all branches would already need to be pre-determined. So it's more of a multi-determinism. Delayed-Choice experiment, would also suggest that the path would've already been 'resolved' before measurement, and even if we experience a branch of MWI for that specific observation, then it's also mean that it was already pre-determined, we just experienced one of the infinite pre-determined 'timelines.' Bell's Theorem assumes free will, but in superdeterministic model everything was already going to happen, including him conceptualising the theory, while getting hit by photons emitted thousands, millions, billions years before.

If special relativity is correct, and if the block universe model is real (where time is just another dimension), then this suggests something even bigger:

➡ The universe isn’t unfolding moment by moment—it’s already "solved." ➡ The future is as fixed as the past, meaning everything—including my thoughts, actions, and so-called choices—might already be determined.

So, if this photon’s final destination was always set from the start… what does that say about my free will? 🤯

What do u guys think about this in the context of this simulation?

I would think that the enviroment around u is simulated, hence its pre determined by the simulated code but u still have the free will to choose how to respond to the simulated environment.