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Around eight minutes later, if it's going in the right direction, it will enter the Earth's atmosphere and slow down again (just a little bit!). If it is particularly unlucky the poor photon will reflect off some object (could be a window, a car, a mirror or even just water on the ground) and disappear up someone's left nostril!!
Once that happens it will likely be absorbed in the tissues within said nostril! At that point it will disappear forever from the history if the universe.
Its brief, yet exciting, life will have ceased. And so is the life of a solar photon....
(Footnote - of course, the original photon disappears quite early in its 'life'! In actuality, it is absorbed and re-emitted as a new photon many, many times during its passage through the sun. But why ruin a good story with mere things like facts!!!?)
Mike.
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