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The photons in the sun’s solar wind are able to accelerate particles of matter up to speeds that are close to their own speed of light.
Particles in the solar wind can be accelerated many times by the incident photons, but as it rides the wave of each photon... the energy transferred to the accelerated particle must be counterbalanced by the equivalent loss of energy of the photon.
Although your welcome comments point out its limitations, I am not going to back off from the analogy drawn between the functioning of the sun and the particle accelerator.