Indeed. The whole idea of photons as particles scattering off matter particles in the sun is just a very simplified model of energy transport. The results may f

Indeed. The whole idea of photons as particles scattering off matter particles in the sun is just a very simplified model of energy transport. The results may fit well observations, but actually such mechanism is quite far from the basic physical picture of charged particle interaction, which is very complicated process (retarded fields of immense number of particles acting on each other ... hard to simulate already for N=2).