But since it lacks consciousness, a particle would have no capacity for a literal presentational perspective of changing space, regardless. There is no "experience" for the photon, as the video below figuratively frames the question, as if the photon could otherwise indulge in sensory perceptions and conceptual understandings of them.
Even a macroscopic, dead brain traveling slower than light "enjoys" the same "absence of everything" bliss. Its neural tissue no longer harbors any internal manifestations of its environment -- whether static or undergoing alterations. When alive, a functioning memory system is required to store one information state and compare it to another ("newer") one, in order to cognitively discern a difference between the two and interpret that as an increment of time (i.e., construe that a change in the universe has occurred).
So even if there was a mind-independent version of "time flowing" (as the person on the street believes or the commonsense view entertains), it would still be the mediating brain-dependent version that we experienced, that is restricted to irregular millisecond units. Whereas change in the objective environment would have to be narrowed down to at least a
rontosecond measurement, in order to accommodate subatomic events.
Our elephant-sized temporal units (actually divisions of cognition) would have to extend over a vast sequence of co-existing objective, different states of the universe (i.e., the former can't remotely "fit" into the one of the latter's units). Ergo, something like the
block-universe conception of time seems to rear its head again, without even having to philosophically fall out of relativity (and far older, as well as contemporary arguments of that era, like
McTaggart's).
Do photons experience time? (Fermilab)