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Originally Posted by lyn1
Theory of relativity where (in laymans terms) is if you travel at the speed of light, time stays still.
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Actually accourding to the TOR nothing with any mass could ever actually go the speed of light. You're only looking at one of three facets of the theory when you make that statement.
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According to Einstein (and he was famous for coming up with theories like this that no one could disprove) is if you travelled from earth to some other planet at the speed of light, even if it took 10 years, you would be no older.
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That's not what it says at all. The idea is that from the point of view of the person traveling near the speed of light time is actually passing slower. Say you took a ten year journey at those speeds, in the ten years you traveled 1,000 years could have passed on earth.
This has been at least supported with particle accelerator.
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This has confused the 'illogical set' no-end for years, but if you looked at it logically, it is bullshit.
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Not really, the idea is that from the point of view of one observer it would be happening one way and from the point of view of another observer it is happening another way. Both point of views are different, but also correct. The idea of different but equally true realities shows up all over quantum physics, look at some stuff like superposition theory and you'll see the same concepts re-emerge.