Photons put it all into the X, Y, and Z components, leaving nothing for the t component. They experience a change of position in space, but not in time. What's so hard to grasp about this?
Another point is that if this concept were actually scientifically useful, somebody would be using it in a textbook or peer-reviewed paper.
Seems that a fellow named Maxwell got a lot of mileage out of the concept, even if he didn't know what was really going on.