text: will someone please help me settle this dispute!? my friend and i are arguing about this: scernio:  imagine there's a man dancing on the sun.  the image you see of him from earth is constantly eight minutes old due to the speed of light refracting off of matter. now imagine you hop into you superduperspaceship and travel towards the sun at the speed of light.  my friend argues the image must speed up as you approach it because your are approaching so fast. i reason that since the image relays at the speed of light, and your traveling towards it at the same speed, the image dosn't speed up, only gets closer to real time.  as you travel towards it the image takes shorter to relay to your eyes at the same ratio that you travel towards it is the same and so it wouldn't speed up, but you would reach realtime as you you reach the sun exactly.  help!  note: i realize my scernio is scientificly impossible, just bear with me for the sake of argument. when approaching an object then both happens.  see, as the image approaches real time then it must speed up in order to catch up with real time.  have two video tapes, one travelling normal and the other is 8 minutes behind. in order to get the one behind up to scratch you must speed it up... as it speeds up it approaches the real time. once it gets to real time then it stops speeding up and matches real time image.