Why can’t wind move light? Considering light is a particle.

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For example, seeing lights as flickering when there are strong winds. Is there something conceptually wrong in considering lights as particles?

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Even setting aside the wave/particle nature of light and treat it as pure particles, it moves millions of times faster than the wind. So relative to light, air is effectively motionless, regardless of wind speed

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