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Old 17-11-2008, 08:37 PM
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photons do not weaken...
You are confusing flux (number of photons/square, intensity of source as we see it) and photon energy.

Light source emits a certain number of photons per unit of time.
This flow of photons produces a flux at some distance, and this will be lower as distance increases (inverse square law) .. but the energy of each individual photon will remain the same.
I am not taking into account the expansion of universe here :-)
I believe you haven't thought about it either...
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