I am a student of class 12th and as far as i know when anything reaches about 99.99% of the speed of light it starts traveling in time or time for it slows down so that it don't breaks the speed barrier. So according to this light photons are immortal. Please clear my doubt.
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A photon is immortal if it does not meet some matter on its way, or even another photon. If it meets a particle, it will interact with some probability given by quantum mechanical calculations. In that sense it is not immortal, because in interacting it may be completely absorbed into new particles. It's average lifetime will depend on the density of matter, which is very small in outer space, so we see light that has traveled thousands of years, and high if it hits a wall.
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