When an object approaches the speed of light, time slows. Once it matches light’s speed, time stops altogether. Photons, packets of light, pure energy, do not experience time.
Once a photon is emitted, hundreds of millions of years might elapse, but for the photon, zero time passes.
Distance is also shortened as the speed of light is approached. This means photons also experience zero distance.
As I write, there are photons zipping around the universe, not yet absorbed, which just passed through the lips of God when he said “Let there be light”. For them, creation is. When you stand outside today, perhaps one will slip through ozone and absorb into your head; straight from the mouth of God onto your forehead.
Thought Butter 