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Photons do not travel through time.

This is due to the fact that the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time. In other words, if an object is standing still, it is traveling at the speed of light through time, and since a photon travels at the speed of light through space, it is not traveling through time.

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Asker here, I hope no one minds me editing in to expand on the question/answer given.

Surely the answer must be more complex. If a photon does not travel through time, then that could potentially violate/invalidate causality.

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