Think of a scale model of the universe scaled down by a factor of 10^8 and it’s less than 4 metres, just a couple of big steps out to the moon. It’s 45 km out to Neptune. The nearest star is still about as far away as the moon is. The speed of light is now 3 metres a second – a good running pace for a human. That’s as fast as anything can get around, and it’s still more than 300 000 km between stars /other potential solar systems in spite of knocking 8 zeroes off all the distances.

As far as my limited knowledge of relativity goes, everything should be “infinitely” red-shifted in the observer’s view as he looks directly “behind” (as it moves forward). So in essence the observer should see a black-ish disk around were the sun is (may be spanned a few degrees) and then gradually (as looking around from “dead behind” to the “side”) “red” objects appear followed by some natural color objects on the sides. if the observer continues to rotate his gaze, objects should become more “violet” and then fade into ultra violet and then x-rays and so on. The “front view” of the observer should be very very very bright (like gamma ray bright!)

Is that a fair assessment? or am I getting all my relativity wrong! 😀