Well it takes around 8.3 minutes for light to cross a distance of 1 AU so any light from the Sun will take that long to reach the Earth. No information about th

Well it takes around 8.3 minutes for light to cross a distance of 1 AU so any light from the Sun will take that long to reach the Earth. No information about the state of the Sun will be available to us sooner than that 8.3 minute barrier. At the macro level where we all live our lives, this way of looking at things holds. Understanding Relativity means embracing certain paradoxes and that just happens to be one of them. I mean yes, absolutely, the world of a photon would be something akin to a mathematical point with no distance or time. That knowledge is important but it's not always useful.