Outcomes of traveling over the speed of light?

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Lets say it's 2005, I'm 25 and i get in a space ship and travel at the speed of light to a planet that's 6 light years away. According to Albert Einstein's theory that would mean that when I arrive at the destination to me it would be as if no time had passed at all and I would be the same age while to people on Earth I would've been gone 6 years and they all aged 6 years.

Now suppose I keep the same scenario but I travel at twice the speed of light. Would that mean that when I arrive at the destination and get out of the ship I would be 22 years old? Would it be the year 2002 when I get there? Or would it just mean that to everyone else I would've been gone for 3 years but to me it would still just be as if no time had passed at all?

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Good god, how many times do I need to state this?

Objects with ordinary mass at rest CANNOT travel AT or ABOVE the speed of light. It requires infinite energy for an object with ordinary mass to travel AT the speed of light and it will take an "imaginary beyond infinity" amount of energy for an object to travel faster than the speed of light.

Please, learn the full theory of relativity.

You can only ask hypothetical questions about the IMPRACTICAL...NOT the impossible.
 
Einstein's theory only really extends to object travelling near the speed of light. Since travelling over the speed of light is impossible, its impractical to find answers to these questions because the questions themselves don't make sense, so how can the answers?
 
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