Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I've always thought the theory which says if you travel at the speed of light time would stand still was one of the great theories in that it was impossible to prove right or wrong and interesting enough that other folks would get excited about it.

It was the kind of thing that would make you famous even if it were bunk.

Now I believe that Einstein did some other work which would have made him eminent without it but I always though this theory was sort of bunk.