Good information. My point was not on the science or possibility/disability of traveling very fast. It was to point out that what we see is the illusion of what once was. Not the reality of what is today.
Closer to home, the sun that you see in the summer sky is a total illusion since light takes eight minutes to travel from sun to earth.
We can never see the actual real-time sun from the earth due to its distance from us.
In the unlikely event that we see the sun explode, we would have eight minutes to say our prayers.