Does time really slow down for someone travelling at the speed of light?

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Need help, I can't quite grasp the concept on books or theories because I think it's different, I think that time speeds up for someone moving at the speed of time.

Let me explain with the common examples used in theories. In theory, if you compare two objects or say people (one stationary and one travelling at the speed of light circling around the person who is stationary), there are two different time perspectives, yes? The stationary person is experiencing time the same way we do, but the person moving at the speed of light (if you are familiar with the concept) should have time passing at a different pace. I think that if the person that is stationary waits for 1 minute, the person travelling at the speed of light should be already dead as the time for that person has been more than a 100 years! Why? Here's what I am thingking...

Let's call the stationary guy, station man, while the one moving at the speed of light speed girl. For station man, time occurs normally, the same way that speed girl's perspective of time is normal. But if you have both on the same platform, if speed girl is moving at a very fast rate in 1 second (from station man's perspective), then on 1 second, speed girl should have already experienced a lot of things which is equivalent to say a year's worth of activities while station man only experienced 1 second. So in 100 seconds, speed girl is actually already dead since she has already reached 100 years old!

Imagine this, if instead, someone is on a train travelling at 90mph and throws a ping pong ball at 10mph, on station man's perspective, that's 100mph ping pong ball thrown at him. Speed girl is able to move faster whithout her actually realizing how fast she is. While if station man threw a ball at 10mph, the ball would have been so slow to even catch up to the speed of speed girl. To her, the ball is moving slowly as if time has slowed down (in a miniscule way), but in reality, she is only moving faster and aging faster than station man.

Someone please explain to me why someone travelling at the speed of time for 70 years (in the time traveller's perspective) will be equivalent to 1300 earth years? Because I really think that travelling for only 5 minutes of earth's time for someone at the speed of light, will end up over a century for the "time traveller".
 
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